Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball
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| University | Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
| Conference | ACC | |||
| Location | Atlanta, GA | |||
| Head coach | Josh Pastner (1st year) | |||
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McCamish Pavilion (Capacity: 8,600) |
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| Nickname | Yellow Jackets | |||
| Colors | Old Gold and White |
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| NCAA Tournament runner-up | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Final Four | ||||
| 1990, 2004 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1960, 1985, 1990, 2004 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1960, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2004 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1960, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1938, 1985, 1990, 1993 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1937, 1944, 1985, 1996 | ||||
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team represents the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in NCAA Division I basketball. The team plays its home games in McCamish Pavilion on the school's Atlanta campus and is currently coached by Josh Pastner. Under the tenure of Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech established itself as a national force in basketball. Cremins led his team to the first ACC tournament victory in school history in 1985 and in 1990 he took Georgia Tech to the school's first Final Four appearance ever. Cremins retired from Georgia Tech in 2000 with the school's best winning percentage as a head coach. The Yellow Jackets returned to the Final Four in 2004 under Paul Hewitt and lost in the national title game, losing to UConn. Overall, the team has won 1,318 games and lost 1,176 games, a .528 win percentage.
Georgia Tech's first recorded official participation in basketball was in 1906, when a small club organized under Coach Chapman. They won two of the three games they played that season. The next time Tech had a basketball team, it was under the famous coach John Heisman, also Tech's baseball and football coach. Heisman had a winning percentage of .142 that season and improved the team's percentage to .500 in 1912 and 1913.
Since that time, Georgia Tech has forged a solid basketball program on the strength of coaches like John Hyder and Bobby Cremins, and such players as Roger Kaiser, Rich Yunkus, Mark Price, Craig "Noodles" Neal, John Salley, Tom Hammonds, and Matt Harpring. Georgia Tech became a charter member of the Southeastern Conference in 1932 (the first season was in 1933) and won the conference title in 1938. Coach Hyder, whose teams won 292 games in twenty-two seasons, put the program on the national map when his 1955 team defeated Adolph Rupp's Kentucky team, ending the Wildcats' 129-game winning streak at home.
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