{"id":425626,"date":"2024-11-28T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425626"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Baye-Ndongo-scores-17-to-lead-Georgia-Tech-past-Charleston-Southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Baye-Ndongo-scores-17-to-lead-Georgia-Tech-past-Charleston-Southern\/","title":{"rendered":"Baye Ndongo scores 17 to lead Georgia Tech past Charleston Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baye Ndongo had 17 points and eight rebounds, helping the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets earn a 91-67 win over the visiting Charleston Southern Buccaneers in Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday. Naithan George also scored 17 points, adding seven assists for Georgia Tech (3-3), which snapped a two-game losing streak. Jaeden Mustaf added a career-high 16 points off the bench, while Lance Terry scored 15. Taje&#8217; Kelly led Charleston Southern (1-7) with 20 points. Thompson Camara chipped in 14 for the Buccaneers, who dropped their fifth straight game and are still searching for their first win over a Division I opponent. After trailing by as many as 19 in the first half, and by 15 at halftime, Charleston Southern cut its deficit to 48-40 with an 8-1 run to start the second half. The Yellow Jackets then answered with a 9-0 run, stamped with Luke O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s 3-pointer with 13:49 remaining. From there, the Georgia Tech lead ballooned to 69-48 on Mustaf&#8217;s jumper at the 9:05 mark. Camara&#8217;s 3-pointer trimmed the Buccaneers&#8217; deficit to 16 with 4:33 left, but Ndongo&#8217;s ensuing layup began a 12-4 Georgia Tech run to finish off the win. Early in the first half, Kelly&#8217;s triple knotted the score at 10, before Ndongo&#8217;s layup finished Georgia Tech&#8217;s 6-0 run. A pair of Ndongo mid-range jumpers then jumpstarted an 8-0 Yellow Jackets spurt, extending Georgia Tech&#8217;s lead to 24-12 with 10:50 left in the opening half. Mustaf&#8217;s jumper gave the Yellow Jackets their largest lead to that point, a 45-26 advantage at the 1:48 mark of the opening half. Charleston Southern answered with a 6-0 run before Terry&#8217;s jumper with 16 seconds left gave Georgia Tech a 47-32 halftime lead. Ndongo paced Georgia Tech with nine first-half points, while Kelly paced the Buccaneers with nine. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9636041997e6817dc86cbbceac0ff7ce.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nov 23, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets head coach Damon Stoudamire on the sideline against the Cincinnati Bearcats in the first half at McCamish Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Brett Davis-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baye Ndongo had 17 points and eight rebounds, helping the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets earn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}