THE FLATS – Georgia Tech women's basketball gears up for game four of its six-game, season-opening homestand Thursday night against Maryland Eastern Shore inside McCamish Pavilion.
The Yellow Jackets (2-1, 0-0 ACC) are led by 2026 All-ACC First Teamer Talayah Walker, who is averaging 27.5 points per game this season. Her 77 points on the early campaign are second in the nation. Erica Moon is leading the Jackets in assists with 17, a mark that is also near the top of the nation.
The Jackets look to rebound after falling to No. 24 West Virginia on Sunday. Walker led Tech with 21 points while Moon finished an assist shy of her career-best with eight.
The Hawks trek to The Flats following a WNIT berth last season where they captured a win over fellow ACC foe Wake Forest.
Tech and UMES are set for a 7 p.m. tip-off on ACC Network Extra.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (2-1, 0-0 ACC) vs. Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (1-1, 0-0 MEAC)
- Thursday, Nov. 12 | 7 p.m. ET
- TV: ACC Network Extra
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- PxP: Richard Musterer | Analyst: Kurt Hoyt
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SERIES HISTORY
Thursday is the second meeting between Tech and UMES. The first came on Nov. 14, 1995, in a 93-43 win for the Yellow Jackets.
INSIDE THE SCHEDULE
Karen Blair’s squad will never back down from a challenge, and the 2026-27 schedule is full of challenging opponents from top-to-bottom. The Jackets have 16 games (15 opponents) against teams that made the 2026 NCAA Tournament, tied for the most in the ACC (Notre Dame) and seventh-most among Power Four programs.
Tech faces six of those teams in the non-conference and eight inside McCamish Pavilion. Seven of Tech’s 2026-27 foes (Duke, Louisville, Princeton, West Virginia, Samford, TCU and Hofstra) either won their conferences tournament and/or regular season title and/or were the runner-up in the conference title game.
HOME COOKIN’
McCamish Pavilion was a difficult place for opponents last season, where Tech produced the second-best home FG defense in the ACC (34.7%) and the second-best home three-point defense (24.7%). The Jackets’ nine home games with at least 30 defensive boards were tied for the third-most in the country and Tech led the ACC with nine home games accruing at least 20 assists last season.
The Yellow Jackets are 158-69 (.696) all-time inside McCamish Pavilion and 95-12 (.888) against non-conference opponents. Against in-state foes at home, the Yellow Jackets are 53-12 since 1983-84, 40-5 since 2000-01, and 20-4 inside McCamish Pavilion.
THE 2026-27 YELLOW JACKETS
Tech returns seven from last season, four of its starting five and over 50 percent of both its minutes played and points scored. That number more than doubles from the returners Coach Blair had in her first season (2025-26), where Tech brought back just three from the previous season.
Talayah Walker, Inés Noguero, La’Nya Foster, Erica Moon, Ariadna Termis, Leyre Urdiain and Déborah Mukeba are back in White and Gold in 2026-27, more than doubling the returning production that Tech had going into 2025-26 (3 to 7). Urdiain and Mukeba will be making their debut in a Tech uniform this season.
In addition to Tech’s seven returners, Blair’s Yellow Jackets welcome seven newcomers to The Flats this season. Fifth-year Antonia Bates (G/F, Rutgers), senior Anna Conza (G, Oglethorpe), junior Kyndal Walker (G, Maryland), sophomores Sofia Muñoz (G, UAB), Penda Dieng (F, Xavier), Jordan Ode (G, Michigan State) and freshman Autumn Washington all join the Jackets.
2025-26 RECAP
Georgia Tech looks to build on a 2025-26 campaign where it won 10 games on home court and earned a trip to the 2026 WBIT. Head Coach Karen Blair became the first head coach in program history to lead Tech to a postseason berth in their first season.
Tech captured key victories over No. 18 Notre Dame, Clemson, Miami, Stanford and an ACC Tournament win over Florida State in Blair’s first season. Talayah Walker led the offensive charge, scoring 576 points - the most by a Jacket since 2015-16.
Georgia Tech posted the highest average attendance in the program’s history at McCamish Pavilion last season, and the Jan. 11 game vs. Clemson was the second-highest attended game in Tech history for its current venue (6,125).
UP NEXT
Georgia Tech hosts in-state foe Georgia State on Sunday, Nov. 15. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.