The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets take on the Louisville Cardinals in Louisville, KY. Tip-off is set for 2:15 p.m. ET on The CW Network.
Louisville is favored by 23.5 points on the spread with a moneyline of -10000. The total is set at 163.5 points.
Here’s my Georgia Tech vs. Louisville predictions and college basketball picks for February 21, 2026.
Georgia Tech vs Louisville Prediction
My Pick: Georgia Tech +23.5 (Play to +22)
My Georgia Tech vs Louisville best bet is on the Yellow Jackets to cover the spread. For all of your college basketball bets, be sure to find the best lines by using our live NCAAB odds page.
Georgia Tech vs. Louisville Odds
| G Tech Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
+23.5 -105 | 163.5 -110o / -110u | +2500 |
| Louisville Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
-23.5 -115 | 163.5 -110o / -110u | -10000 |
- Georgia Tech vs Louisville spread: Louisville -23.5
- Georgia Tech vs Louisville over/under: 163.5 points
- Georgia Tech vs Louisville moneyline: Georgia Tech +2500, Louisville -10000
Georgia Tech vs Louisville College Basketball Betting Preview
Georgia Tech Basketball
Georgia Tech is the worst team in the ACC in year three under Damon Stoudamire, sitting at 11–16 overall and 2–12 in league play. The Yellow Jackets have lost eight games in a row and have dropped from 130th to 166th in KenPom over the past two weeks.
During this especially rough four-game stretch, Georgia Tech is losing by an average of 20 points per game.
The Yellow Jackets rank in the bottom two in the league in both offensive and defensive efficiency. They play at the fastest tempo in the ACC and turn the ball over more than anyone.
Tech does have a couple of talented, experienced players who have been with Stoudamire throughout his tenure, in Kowacie Reeves and Baye Ndongo. Reeves is shooting 38% from three and leads the team with 15.1 points per game. Ndongo is averaging 12.5 points and 8.3 rebounds to go along with 2.4 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
Overall, this team is lacking talent and has been poorly coached compared to the rest of the league. Outside of a random road upset over NC State, the Yellow Jackets haven’t beaten another top-150 team this season.
Louisville Basketball
Louisville is starting to look like the second-best team in the ACC again over the past month. A road loss to SMU on Tuesday ended a five-game win streak for the Cardinals, who now sit at 19–7 overall and 8–5 in ACC play.
Louisville plays at the second-fastest pace in the ACC and ranks fourth nationally in three-point attempt rate. A staggering 52.9% of their field goal attempts come from beyond the arc, and they connect at a 35.8% clip. The Cardinals are also shooting 60% on twos, the eighth-best mark nationally.
Defensively, they’ve been rock solid as well, ranking 30th nationally in efficiency and fifth-best in the ACC during league play.
The key storyline for Pat Kelsey’s team is the availability and performance of Mikel Brown Jr. The five-star point guard was inefficient shooting early in the season, but powered this electric offense to a 9–1 start. Louisville went 4–4 in the eight games he missed due to injury and is 6–2 since his return.
Brown has reached another level over the past three games, averaging a ridiculous 34.3 points per game while shooting 18-of-29 (62%) from long range.
Brown is the engine of the offense, but he’s flanked by one of the best shooters in the country in Isaac McKneely and a dynamic scoring guard in Ryan Conwell, who is averaging 18.4 points per game.
Georgia Tech vs. Louisville Betting Analysis
All signs point to a Louisville home blowout here. The Cardinals scored 118 points in their last home game and haven’t lost at the Yum! Center this season with Mikel Brown active.
However, throughout Stoudamire’s tenure, the Yellow Jackets have been strangely competitive against some of the ACC’s best teams. Even this season, they beat NC State in Raleigh and took Duke down to the wire at Cameron Indoor. It was a very different Louisville team last season, but Georgia Tech handed them their only ACC loss that wasn’t against Duke.
It would be a shock if there’s any result here other than a double-digit win by the Cardinals, but it’s still a lot of points to lay with a team facing an opponent that has been consistently frisky as a big underdog.
My Pick: Georgia Tech +23.5 (Play to +22)
