THE FLATS – Georgia Tech women's basketball looks to secure a key early-season victory Sunday afternoon against No. 24/24 West Virginia inside McCamish Pavilion.
The Yellow Jackets roll into game three of their six-game homestand this weekend with two-straight wins thus far in 2026-27 including an 84-58 defeat of Samford on Thursday.
Jordan Ode led the Jackets with 18 points in her second collegiate game, while La'Nya Foster and Talayah Walker each had 16. Erica Moon - who shared the team lead for steals of four with Walker - scored 14.
Head coach Karen Blair's Yellow Jackets have now won three-straight on home court dating back to last season and Tech is 7-0 when scoring 80 or more in her tenure.
Tech's clash with the reigning Big 12 tournament champions is set for 2 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (2-0, 0-0 ACC) vs. West Virginia Mountaineers (2-0, 0-0 Big 12)
- Sunday, Nov. 8 | 2 p.m. ET
- TV: ACC Network Extra
- PxP: Andrew Selover | Analyst: Fallon Stokes
- Radio: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets App | Listen Here
- PxP: Richard Musterer | Analyst: Kurt Hoyt
- Live Stats
- Game Notes: Georgia Tech | West Virginia
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- GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS
- The first 1,000 fans will receive a light-up rally towel and a limited number of Under Armour 'White Out' shirts will be available for Georgia Tech students, while supplies last.
SERIES HISTORY
Sunday is the fifth meeting between Tech and West Virginia, with the latter holding a 3-1 series advantage. The Jackets are looking for their first win over the Big 12 foe since a 73-56 win in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. West Virginia managed to win last year's meeting.
Sunday marks the first meeting between the two in Atlanta since the first-ever matchup on Feb. 16, 1983.
For each of Tech's first three opponents this season, each meeting has marked the fifth all-time game in each series.
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 158-68 (.699) 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 welcomes Maryland Eastern Shore to The Flats on Thursday, Nov. 12 inside McCamish Pavilion. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.