Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets NCAA Basketball News

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.

Derrick Favors was attending an Atlanta Hawks game this spring to get an up-close look at some of his favorite NBA stars.

As you saw a couple of days ago , the Wizards have their roster in place for this year's summer league in Vegas.

Now that the 2009 NBA Draft is in the book, we're going to give you the first legit mock draft for 2010.

The ACC led college basketball with seven first-round selections in last night's NBA draft -- everyone who muted Stuart Scott raise their hand -- and don't be surprised if the numbers are similar next year.

Wake Forest guard Jeff Teague , Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez and Georgia Tech forward Gani Lawal waited until last Monday's deadline to decide their NBA futures.

Original June 15th, 2009 entry: The deadline for withdrawal is 5:00 p.m. today, and ESPN's Chad Ford is tracking the late deciders' status .

Former Norcross High and Kentucky star Jodie Meeks is convinced there is a place for him in the June 25 NBA draft.

Gani Lawal became one of the league's most effective inside players and is a returning starter along with Maurice Miller , Zach Peacock and Shumpert.

Aminu averaged 16 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 blocked shots, which were seventh, sixth and tied for first among the 64 seniors who took part.

Thanks to the excellent Bret Lagree of the Hawks blog Hoopinion , I have access to normalized stats for the top 90 or so US college prospects in the NBA draft.

Before the NBA draft process began, Utah State's Gary Wilkerson was nothing more than an overseas hopeful with absolutely zero chance of making an impact on draft night.

Paul Hewitt never wanted sympathy, even though no college basketball coach deserved it more over the past half-decade. Sure, the fall from national title game participant to Atlantic Coast Conference patsy stung the Yellow Jackets' charismatic frontman.

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.

Sure it's a bit odd that I'd wish to break down a player available later in the draft rather than at No.

Austin Daye isn't hearing what he wants: a first-round guarantee. He is getting good reports about his skill and the likelihood that he'll be selected in the first round of the June 25 draft -- Phoenix and Detroit are atop his list of possible destinations at Nos.

First, Scott Howard-Cooper of Sports Illustrated with some draft buzz, including a division rival looking to make moves: New Timberwolves president David Kahn is not easing into the job.

By BLAKE HURTIK Four years ago, Jeremis Smith and Jeffrey Muriel were a year removed from starring at Fort Worth Dunbar High School and had big plans for the future after they wrapped up their college basketball careers.

On his way to becoming the most prolific scorer in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference, North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough saw his share of multiple defenders.

Had the Kings won the No. 1 pick in the June 25 draft, they almost certainly would have taken Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin.