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Georgia Tech has a month before it begins ACC play in earnest, and a week before getting a taste against Florida State, which means there's not much more time for fiddling with the rotation.

Iman Shumpert poured in 18 points, as the 22nd- ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets opened the 2009-10 season with a 100-59 blowout of the Florida A&M Rattlers at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

We're not going with a typical, run-of-the-mill Top 25 rundown each day. Instead, we'll cut to the chase and tell you who will be left standing at the end of the year in the Elite Eight.

For the most part, the rosters are now set for next season in ACC basketball. Schedules should be released in a little over a month, and practices will be starting in mid-October. With that in mind, here is part II of a look at how the ACC sizes up on paper for the 2009-10 season.

Fifty years after its first NCAA Tournament appearance, 25 years following its first ACC Championship and 20 years after its first Final Four appearance, Georgia Tech looks ahead to a season with great promise.

Georgia Tech's 2009-10 season will mark the 93rd season of basketball at the Institute, but it also marks the anniversary of three important events in the history of the Yellow Jackets' program.

If Georgia Tech harbored hopes of going from last place in the ACC to the NCAA tournament in one season, then the Yellow Jackets probably needed sophomore forward Gani Lawal to withdraw from the NBA draft.

Gani Lawal was presumed to be gone. Despite skill deficiencies and playing for a Georgia Tech team that finished with two ACC wins, the sophomore forward was expected to be drafted as a middle- to late-first-rounder. But as the NBA draft combine concluded its basketball portion Friday afternoon at the Attack Athletics Training Center in Chicago , ...