Yellow Jackets look for fourth straight win against Maryland

ATLANTA - Georgia Tech returns home from a two-game road swing to host Maryland in a 12 noon nationally-televised game Saturday at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. It is Tech's only home game in a nearly month-long stretch for the Yellow Jackets, who visit Wake Forest, Connecticut and Clemson in succession over the next week-and-a-half.

The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2. Radio coverage of the game is provided on the Georgia Tech/ISP Sports Network, and can be heard in Atlanta on WQXI-AM (790), WREK-FM (91.1) and WTSH-FM (107.1), and nationally on XM Satellite Radio Channel 190. A national ISP broadcast of the game can be heard on XM channel 191.

The Yellow Jackets are 10-9 for the season and 3-3 in the ACC, having won three straight games against Virginia (92-82), NC State (77-74) and Virginia Tech (81-70) following an 0-3 conference start. Tech has jumped from last place in the ACC standings to a four-way tie for fifth following Wednesday's action. The Jackets are 4-4 at home this season, 1-2 in ACC games.

A win Saturday would give Tech four straight conference wins for the first time since the end of the 2001-02 season. A win Saturday also would be the 1,200th in the history of Georgia Tech basketball (1,199-1,046 all-time currently).

Maryland, 13-8 overall and 3-3 in the ACC, has won three of its last four games following an 85-75 win over Virginia Wednesday night. The Terrapins also have beaten North Carolina and Wake Forest, while losing to Boston College, Virginia Tech and Duke in conference play.

Tech has played a strong schedule thus far, posting a schedule strength rank of No. 7 according to this week's RPI rankings. The teams Tech lost to have a combined record of 138-42 (through Wednesday's games), including four losses to top-25 teams who have a combined mark of 88-14. The Jackets also have surged from outside the top 100 to No. 57 in RPI ranking.

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