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Mailbag 3/10 Share this story Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic What would need to happen the rest of the season for Tech to retire either Jose’s or Moses’ jersey? - majorQ9 Ben: I think we’ve covered this before. Personally, I’ll believe it when I see it, but going far in the NCAA Tournament certainly wouldn’t hurt their chances. Andrew: Here are the requirements for having a jersey retired at Tech. https://ramblinwreck.com/jersey-retirement/ One of the rules is that a player must have...

Roundtable: Drafting the best players ahead of the ACC Tournament Courtesy of Hyosub Shin | Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com Georgia Tech center Moses Wright dunks in a 84-77 win over Syracuse. Wright was the ACCs player of the year this season. Facebook Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Our men’s basketball beat writers have watched all but one Atlantic Coast Conference team play against Syracuse. We asked them to draft a five-player team, plus a sixth man and head coach, with the conference’s ...

The Huskies win their 160th straight game in conference play. Associated Press Read Article Marquette’s Jordan King, right, knocks the ball from Connecticut’s Christyn Williams during the first half in the Big East tournament finals at Mohegan Sun Arena Mondayat Uncasville, Conn.  Jessica Hill/Associated Press UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Paige Bueckers scored 23 points to lead top-ranked UConn over Marquette 73-39 on Monday night for the program’s 19th Big East Tournament championship. The...

From Zero-Star to All-Star in 4 Years The following story appeared originally in the Winter issue of Everyday Champions magazine. See the full magazine here.   From the moment he was born, Moses Wright has been surprising people. It started when his mother Calla saw her baby boy for the first time in the hospital. He was a big baby – 23 inches long – and she noticed immediately that this was going to be a tall kid. His fingers were long. His toes were long. His legs were long. And as he gr...

Greensboro, N.C. – For the second consecutive week, Georgia Tech’s Moses Wright was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week Monday in voting by a panel of 15 members of the media. It is the third time Wright has received the honor this season, having done so last week and also in December. It is the fourth time a Tech player has been so honored this season; Jose Alvarado was named in early January. The 6-9 senior forward, who earlier Monday was named the ACC’s Player of th...

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The Atlantic Coast Conference on Monday named Georgia Tech senior Moses Wright its player of the year and Virginia Tech's Mike Young as its coach of the year.

Greensboro, N.C. – Georgia Tech’s Moses Wright was named Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year and earned a spot on the All-ACC first team, and Jose Alvarado was voted the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year and a second-team All-ACC honoree Monday by a vote of the ACC panel of media and coaches, highlighting the list of honors awarded to Yellow Jacket players following the team’s run to a fourth-place finish in the ACC. Wright becomes the third Yellow Jacket to be named the con...