GAME NOTES: The 62nd annual ACC Tournament is off and running, with the first game pitting the Georgia Tech Yellow against the Boston College Eagles at Greensboro Coliseum.

Georgia Tech, the 13 seed in the 14-team league, lost four straight games to close out the regular season, dropping six of the last seven on the schedule as it registered a mark of only 3-15 in conference play and 12-18 overall.

Just ahead of Tech was Boston College, the 12th seed that was also 12-18 overall, but 4-14 when taking on the rest of the ACC. But as poorly as the Eagles played for much of the conference slate, the team was looking up in the late stages with three consecutive wins down the stretch.

The Yellow Jackets have won this event a total of three times, taking part in the title game as recently as 2010 when they bowed to Duke, 65-61. The last championship for Tech, which has an all-time mark of 25-32 in the tourney, came in 1993 in a narrow 77-75 defeat of North Carolina.

Boston College has not performed all that well in this event over the years, delivering a mark of only 7-9 without ever bringing home the trophy. Although, the Eagles did face off against the Blue Devils in the final game in 2006, dropping that meeting by a mere two points, 78-76.

The Eagles squeezed out a 64-62 win in the only regular-season meeting between the squads back on Jan. 25 as Olivier Hanlan scored 25 points and cleared seven rebounds, offsetting his six turnovers for the victors. Georgia Tech was paced by Marcus George-Hunt who delivered 20 points, nine boards and four assists in defeat.

These squads squared off in the ACC Tournament last year, with the Yellow Jackets capturing a 73-70 victory in overtime. Georgia Tech won all three contests during the 2013-14 campaign.

The winner of this meeting will head right back to the hardwood on Wednesday to do battle with fifth-seeded North Carolina in the second round.

The big news for the Yellow Jackets is that they will be without leading scorer Marcus Georges-Hunt who is out with a broken foot. The loss means the team will have to make up for the 13.6 ppg and 5.5 rpg that he was bringing to the table before being injured. It also means Georgia Tech doesn't have a single active double-digit scorer on whom to call upon. Charles Mitchell comes the closest with 9.6 ppg, having shot 51.3 percent from the floor, while adding a team-high 6.9 rpg. Demarco Cox checks in with another 8.8 ppg and 6.0 rpg to supply some support in the paint for a group that has beaten opponents on the glass by almost seven rebounds per contest, but been outscored by 0.7 ppg due to a lackluster 26.9 percent effort behind the 3-point line.

Despite being outscored by almost 100 points at the free-throw line this season, the Eagles were beaten in the final score by an average of just 1.1 ppg by the competition. Hanlan is the reason games have been close, hitting for a team-high 19.4 ppg while playing almost 38 minutes per contest. But more than just a scorer, Hanlan is also the one who drives the rest of his teammates on offense, handing out 126 assists for a squad that has been very unselfish, averaging better than 13 dishes per outing. Aaron Brown checks in with another 15.0 ppg and between he and Hanlan they have accounted for 120 of the program's 193 3-pointers.

The loss of George-Hunt is not something the Yellow Jackets can easily overcome. Couple that with some signs of life by BC in the last days of the regular season and all signs point to the Eagles moving on.