The college basketball offseason is here, and we decided to have some fun over the next few months, ranking ALL 364 teams in D1. Number 69 is Georgia Tech basketball.
Before you say we’re crazy – or that all of this is up for debate, let’s go over the very intricate process of how we came to this conclusion. We took a very statistical approach – with the help of Chat GPT – taking into consideration everything from March Madness wins and finishes, to AP Poll appearances, to conference players of the year. And then, a good friend of ours, Scott Blanchard, took our approach to the MAX.
Click here to visit the FIRST article, which explains how the formula works!
Here’s the breakdown of Georgia Tech basketball!
NCAA Tournament Success
- Championships: 0
- Finals appearances: 1
- Final Fours: 2
- Elite Eights: 4
- Sweet 16s: 7
- NCAA wins: 23
- Bids: 17
Consistency Over Time
- Wins per season: 13.7
- Bids per season: 0.16
- AP Polls: 211
Player Quality & Talent
- All-Americans: 5
- NBA players drafted & played: 31
- Conference Players of the Year: 2
Conference & Other Success
- Conference regular season titles: 3
- Conference tournament titles: 5
- NIT titles: 0
- Other tournament titles: 0
Overall scoop on Georgia Tech basketball
Georgia Tech might be No. 69 in our all-time rankings, but very few programs can match up with the star power they’ve had. Chris Bosh, Thad Young, Jarrett Jack, Stephon Marbury, Kenny Anderson, Jon Barry, and Derrick Favors are just some of the former NBA vets who once repped the Yellow Jackets.
Given that, it is somewhat surprising how Georgia Tech has only played in the NCAA Tournament 17 times. However, it isn’t surprising to learn that they’ve usually done well, playing in the Sweet 16 nearly half of the times they’ve gotten to the big dance.
And of course, the 2003-04 season was the most special one, as Jack and Will Bynum led them to the National Championship, falling to UConn.
However, the Yellow Jackets had a whole stretch of greatness from 1985 to 1993, making the NCAA Tournament nine straight years. That included making the second weekend four of those times, with a Final Four in 1990. That Georgia Tech team was a scoring machine as Anderson, Scott, and Brian Oliver each averaged over 20 points per game.
The coach during this era was Bobby Cremins, who from 1981-00 won over 350 games. He led GTech to 10 of their 17 NCAA Tournaments and ACC regular season crowns three times. For a while, they often competed at the top of the conference, giving Duke and North Carolina some trouble from time to time.
You can go back even further to look more at GTech’s history. They made the Elite 8 all the way back in 1960 thanks to 2x Consensus All-American Roger Kaiser. And for a fun trivia fact, the program’s first regular season conference championship came in 1938 in the SEC. They would leave that conference in 1964.
Obviously, GTech is no blue blood program, but they are a blue-chip school out of the ACC and have a lot of history and starpower to rest their case on.