The 2020–21 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's basketball team represented

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during the 2020-21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. They were led by second-year head coach

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and played their home games at McCamish Pavilion as members of the

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. The Yellow Jackets finished the season 17–9 and 12–6 in ACC play to finish in third place. In the ACC tournament, they defeated to Clemson in the Quarterfinals before losing to eventual champions NC State in the Semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they were the five seed in the HemisFair Regional. In the tournament they defeated twelve seed in the First Round and four seed

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before losing to one seed

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in the Sweet Sixteen to end their season.

Previous season

They finished the 2019–20 season 20–11 and 10–8 in ACC play to finish in seventh place. As the seventh seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated

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in the Second Round before losing to eventual champion NC State in Quarterfinals. The NCAA tournament and WNIT were cancelled due to the

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Off-season

Departures

Recruiting Class

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Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

References

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