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Michael Cunningham: Georgia Tech men’s basketball shouldn’t be this bad

This season’s Georgia Tech men’s basketball team is the worst-ever in Ken Pomeroy’s statistical rankings, which date to the 2001-02 season. The 2009 Yellow Jackets finished 2-14 in the ACC, but at least they lost a lot of close games. This season’s Jackets are 1-10 in the ACC, and the losing margin was fewer than 11 points only once.

The Jackets never should be this bad. It wasn’t long ago that they were good. Tech won the ACC Tournament less than two years ago. Now the best-case scenario looks to be a 5-15 finish in the ACC for the second consecutive season.

How did the Jackets fall so far, so fast? More puzzling to me is how they’ve been mediocre-to-bad for so long.

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