Nick Petrus
Thursday, Feb 5th 2015 at 01:17am EST
DURHAM, NC - Not many words are stronger than those from a head basketball coach with 1,000+ wins to his name. What Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski observed Wednesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium was a Georgia Tech team that played with "such good body language" and "toughness". Unfortunately for the Yellow Jackets those words accompanied another loss, this time at the hands of the #4 Duke Blue Devils by a final score of 72-66.
Georgia Tech entered the game as decided underdogs, however no one including Duke's active Hall of Famer would have known based on the game played. Tech looked every bit of Duke's peer for extended stretches tonight, coming within one shot of taking a second half lead three different times in one of the toughest arenas in the country. Never did the Yellow Jackets get over the hump.
Marcus Georges-Hunt, Chris Bolden, and Demarco Cox pitched in with double-digit point efforts with 14, 16, and 10 respectively. All three did so while being asked to contain several of the premiere players in the country in small forward Justice Winslow, shooting guard Quinn Cook, and center Jahlil Okafor.
