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Louisville, Ky. – Back on the road for the third time in four games, Georgia Tech looks to build on an important win over No. 16 Florida State with a 2 p.m. Atlantic Coast Conference matinee Monday against No. 25/23 Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center.
The Yellow Jackets (8-5, 4-3 ACC) sit in seventh place in the ACC standings and a NCAA NET ranking of No. 55 following Saturday’s 76-65 homecourt win over the Seminoles, which kept the Jackets unbeaten at home in ACC games. The win followed a pair of close losses at No. 13 Virginia (64-62) and Duke (75-68) in which they led late, and Tech is looking for its first ACC win on the road. Prior to that, the Jackets had won three straight conference games, including No. 20 Clemson, Wake Forest and North Carolina by an average of 13 points. Tech remains one of the ACC’s highest scoring teams – third at 77.69 points per game overall.
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A deadly three-point shooter who can score in a variety of ways despite his small stature, Bubba Parham has become a full-time member of Georgia Tech’s starting lineup this season, and ranks 19th in the ACC in minutes played. The Snellville, Ga., product is averaging 8.3 points in 2020-21, including a Tech career high of 17 vs. Kentucky, 16 vs. Mercer, 14 vs. Georgia State, 13 vs. FAMU. Parham has team’s best turnover rate, just six against 24 assists in 357 minutes, and he has played 24 games with zero or one turnover at Tech. Parham has scored 1,376 points in his career, 251 of those at Tech, and has hit 217 career three-point field goals.