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Folks, if you want to stay up, make sure to watch the Jackets in a game that starts at 12:30 am eastern time. That's right. I think I'll be setting my VCR.
JACKETS / GONZAGA IN LATE NIGHT TILT
SETH DAVIS PICKS JACKETS TO WIN
Regular Hoop Thinkers know I love this Georgia Tech team, so I'm eager to see how the Jackets will do in their first real test of the season. (Their only close game was a one-point win at Illinois-Chicago on Nov. 22.) In 6-foot-10 senior Ronny Turiaf, Gonzaga has argubably the best post player in the country outside of Kansas' Wayne Simien, but the Zags will face serious mismatches on the perimeter. Then again, most teams will face serious mismatches against Georgia Tech's perimeter of Jarrett Jack, B.J. Elder and Will Bynum. For all the attention lavished on Chris Paul and Raymond Felton, Jack is the best point guard in the ACC, if not the entire country.
Seth's pick: Georgia Tech 84, Gonzaga 74
Reader's pick: Georgia Tech 71, Gonzaga 70
JAGS PREPARE FOR GT
GREGG DOYELL NOT SO SURE
This will be a rerun of an earlier game for Gonzaga (7-1), but which game? Its lopsided loss to Illinois -- whose guards are similar to those at Georgia Tech? Or its victory against a Washington team that, like the Jackets (7-0), isn't as deep as the Zags in the post?
GONZAGA EYES GAME WITH #3 GT
CSTV COMMENTS ON JACKETS
Paul Hewitt's club at Georgia Tech just keeps on winning. They've risen to #3 in the nation playing fundamental basketball. Jarrett Jack looks ready to explode. Now they have to get through the cruel ACC. Their best win so far was over Michigan. Look to the New Year's Day clash with Kansas.
PDF GAME NOTES
JACKETS TAKE TIME INDIVIDUALLY
Good story on the individual work that helps the Jackets develop as players.
"I can't say how much different it is [than what other teams do], but when I talk to a lot of people and tell them that's what we do, their like, 'Wow, we don't do that. We stop once we start playing games,'" Hewitt said. "It's part of the bargain, also, of why guys come here. We tell them all the time, you come to get better. You don't come necessarily to help us win a lot of games. If you keep getting better, we're gonna win."
ACC TEAMS LIKENED TO CARS
Something a little different:
Georgia Tech's Jarrett Jack steers a figurative luxury SUV that looks sharp and performs well in all conditions