THE FLATS – A collision of 2025 NCAA Event members takes heart stage inside McCamish Pavilion Sunday as Georgia Tech girls’s basketball performs host to the Princeton Tigers.
The Yellow Jackets (1-0, 0-0 ACC) look so as to add to a formidable season-opening exhibiting Thursday once they defeated Radford, 82-36, for this system’s seventh-straight 1-0 begin. Tech out-rebounded the Highlanders 51-23 and tallied 41 bench factors. First-year head coach Karen Blair’s squad outscored Radford 69-26 within the remaining three body and didn’t permit some extent within the second quarter.
Sunday marks the season opener for the Princeton Tigers, who went 21-8 a season in the past and earned an NCAA Event berth. The Tigers have been picked to complete first within the 2025-26 Ivy League preseason ballot and return 4 starters from final season.
The showdown between the Yellow Jackets and Tigers will likely be streamed stay on ACC Community Further and on the radio by way of the Georgia tech Yellow Jackets App or SiriusXM 985. Tip-off is ready for two p.m.
SERIES HISTORY
Sunday welcomes the fifth all-time assembly between the Jackets and Tigers and the primary assembly in nearly eight years. Tech leads the sequence 4-0 and secured the final recreation, 67-56, on Nov. 19, 2017 at Princeton. The final recreation in Atlanta between the 2 got here on Dec. 29, 2016 in a 67-51 win for Tech.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
3 – Three Yellow Jackets reached double figures scoring Thursday, together with Talayah Walker (16), Catherine Alben (14) and D’Asia Thomas-Harris (10).
4 – Georgia Tech holds a 4-0 sequence file over Princeton.
5 – With a win, Georgia Tech would acquire its fifth-straight 2-0 begin.
11 – Brianna Turnage led the Jackets with 11 rebounds in Thursday’s win over Radford.
13 – Georgia Tech has received 13-straight dwelling non-conference video games, the third-longest lively streak within the ACC getting into the weekend.
36 – Georgia Tech allowed 36 factors Thursday vs. Radford, the fewest in a head coach’s debut recreation in program historical past.
INSIDE THE ROSTER
The 2025-26 marketing campaign contains a 13-person squad led by a pair of senior guards: a returner from Gijón, Spain, Inés Noguero and a Charleston Southern switch from Snellville, Ga., Catherine Alben. The duo represented Tech at ACC Media Day with head coach Karen Blair within the preseason. Rounding out the returners are junior heart Adriadna Termis and junior guard/ahead D’Asia Thomas-Harris.
Noguero performed in 27 video games with 21 begins a season in the past, ending second on the group with 39 steals. She has earned three-consecutive All-ACC Educational Group and Honor Roll awards. Termis made 21 begins for Tech final season whereas averaging 42.6% from the ground. She was named a 2024-25 Hawaii North Shore Showcase All-Star after main Tech with 13 factors in a 74-58 win over No. 21 Oregon. Thomas-Harris has performed in 33 profession video games at Tech as she enters her junior season.
Tech brings 10 newcomers to the hardwood this season together with fifth yr guard and Boston School switch Savannah Samuel. She led the Eagles’ bench final season with 6.3 factors per recreation and posted a career-best 16 factors within the WBIT opening spherical towards Villanova.
Coach Blair’s incoming manufacturing contains two senior guards: Brianna Turnage from Florida State and Alben. A 5-7 Grayson Excessive Faculty product, Turnage performed in 90 video games for the Seminoles in three seasons, averaging 30.8% from the ground. Alben is a two-time All-Massive South Convention honoree with over 1,000 profession factors, having earned a primary group nod final season and an All-Freshman group choice in 2022-23.
The junior class of newcomers options guard La’Nya Foster and ahead Jada Crawshaw. Foster, a switch from Austin Peay, was named Atlantic Solar Freshman of the 12 months in 2023-24 and made 47 begins in 64 video games performed for the Governors. Crawshaw, a local of Darwin, Australia, arrives to The Flats from Lengthy Seashore State the place she earned Massive West All-Freshman Group honors in 2023-24. She noticed motion in 62 video games in two seasons.
Three sophomores have earned their spot on the Tech roster together with guards Talayah Walker and Erica Moon (redshirt) and heart Déborah Mukeba. Walker performed 29 video games at Penn State a yr in the past averaging 5.6 factors on 44.6% taking pictures and three.3 rebounds per recreation. Moon spent two seasons at Texas A&M and likewise performed in 29 video games final season, getting begins in seven of the Aggies’ final eight video games. Mukeba noticed motion in simply three video games at Boston School final season.
Rounding out the 2025-26 squad are two freshmen: McKayla Taylor, a 6-1 heart from Langston Hughes Excessive Faculty and Leyre Urdiain, a 5-11 guard from Zaragoza, Spain.
PURCHASE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TICKETS
Season tickets for the 2025-26 Georgia Tech girls’s basketball season stay on sale. Season tickets start at simply $50 for common admission and $65 for reserved seats. Followers received’t need to miss any of the motion in McCamish Pavilion this upcoming season, which contains a difficult nine-game Atlantic Coast Convention schedule along with a aggressive non-conference slate. To buy tickets, or for extra info, please go to RamblinWreck.com.
Single-game tickets additionally stay on sale, in addition to a Mini Plan for patrons wishing to attend a number of video games this season. A Mini Plan contains tickets to 4 video games, anchored by Tech’s marquee matchup towards Notre Dame on Jan. 1 plus the selection of three extra Atlantic Coast Convention video games.
Group tickets are additionally on sale now. For teams fascinated with buying tickets to a Georgia Tech athletics occasion, please fill out this form linked.
Full Steam Forward
Full Steam Forward is a $500 million fundraising initiative to realize Georgia Tech athletics’ objective of competing for championships on the highest stage within the subsequent period of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative initiatives for Tech athletics, together with renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Discipline (the historic dwelling of Georgia Tech soccer), the Zelnak Basketball Heart (the follow and coaching facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable dwelling of Yellow Jackets volleyball), in addition to extra initiatives and initiatives to additional advance Georgia Tech athletics via program wide-operational help. All members of the Georgia Tech group are invited to go to atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full particulars and renderings of the renovation initiatives, in addition to to study alternatives to contribute on-line.
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