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Georgia State and Georgia Tech to Play 3-Game Series

Panthers Will Host Yellow Jackets in 2022, play at Tech in 2020 and 2021

ATLANTA-Georgia State and Georgia Tech have agreed to play a three-game series in men's basketball that begins with the upcoming 2020-21 season, the schools announced Wednesday.

Tech will host the Panthers at McCamish Pavilion on Dec. 16 this season and again during the 2021-22 season on a date to be determined. The Panthers will host the Yellow Jackets on a date to be determined during the 2022-23 season.

The teams last played on Oct. 28, 2017, in an exhibition game won by the Panthers, 65-58, to aid the victims of the hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The two squads last played in a regular-season game on Dec. 17, 2008, an 84-64 Tech victory at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. That was the final game of a three-game series between the two schools. The series dates back to the 1969-70 season with Tech holding a 17-2 lead advantage in the series.

"Both schools were in search of regional games so in that way, this series made sense for each of us," head coach Rob Lanier said. "We certainly wanted to play but Josh Pastner and Georgia Tech really deserve the credit for making this happen. By and large, the power conference schools hold the cards in these situations, and we are grateful that Tech has given us this opportunity. Atlanta is clearly one of the best basketball communities in the country. To have two strong local programs engage in a series like this brings an added level of interest."

The remainder of Georgia State's 2020-21 schedule is expected to be announced later this summer.

Lanier, who will enter his second season at the helm of the Panther program, returns four starters to a line-up that went 19-13 last season. Georgia State was postseason eligible for a school-record seventh-straight season and has won 19 games or more in each of the last four seasons.
 
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