Kentucky Basketball will annihilate Georgia Tech in 2019
By Alex Weber
Kentucky Basketball filled out its 2020 nonconference schedule by agreeing to host Georgia Tech in Rupp with a return game planned for 2021
Kentucky Basketball will face a member of the John Calipari coaching tree this upcoming season in Rupp Arena as the Kentucky Wildcats recently announced they are hosting the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets with a return trip to Atlanta scheduled for 2021. Tech’s coach, Josh Pastner, served as an assistant under Calipari during part of his tenure with the Memphis Tigers and was even promoted to head coach following the now-Kentucky coach’s departure.
Of course, GT is probably viewed as a nobody opponent in the eyes of many Kentucky fans; and while, for the most part, they’re right, Georgia Tech is a member of the ACC and certainly brings more to the table (or court) than a handful of lowly mid-majors the Cats will face this fall.
Headlined by a dreadful offense and returning their three leading scorers (none of whom averaged more than 12 per game), the Jackets are beaming with confidence. Heck, Jon Rothstein believes they’re the sleeper of the ACC! (He also thinks Louisville is better than Virginia, UNC, and Duke, for reference).
As someone who covers/covered college basketball religiously, having to watch Georgia Tech play basketball last season took years off my life. I think I’m having vision problems because of how ugly their style of play was. It’s the basketball-watching equivalent of chain-smoking a pack of Marlboro Reds. In the ACC, you rarely get the opportunity to laugh at how outrageously terrible a basketball team is. When watching Tech play Louisville last season with my buddy Goss (a UL diehard), I wondered aloud do you think Georgia Tech could score even if the whole Louisville team got run over by a semi-truck? The answer is comfortably “NO.”
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Kentucky will beat the brakes of Georgia Tech. This team struggled to score 50 points a game last season and they brought back the whole team, so I don’t know what they think is going to change. A 14-18 power conference team with zero NBA prospects, a meme for a head coach, and no Ben Lammers (that call-back is for the real college basketball aficionados). I’ve seen this show before, it’s Kevin Stallings-era Vanderbilt. Blowout. We can shut the book on this one already. Wake me up in 2021 when the game is in Atlanta and there is a theoretical chance Tech keeps it within a 40-point margin.