Cal Topped In Overtime At Georgia Tech

ATLANTA (AP) – Baye Ndongo tipped in a last-second shot from Naithan George to give Georgia Tech a 90-88 overtime win over California on Saturday.

Mady Sissoko dunked an alley-oop pass from DJ Campbell to give Cal (12-14, 5-10 ACC) an 88-86 lead with 1:35 left in overtime but Ndongo hit a jumper to tie the game with :43 left. With time running out, George drove the lane for a contested layup that Rytis Petraitis got a hand on. In space behind the defenders Ndongo elevated and tipped in the miss for the win.

Ndongo also tipped in a George shot blocked by Sissoko in the final minute of regulation to give the Yellow Jackets a 79-77 lead with :54 left before Andrej Stojakovic scored at the basket to tie the game with :41 remaining and force the extra period after the Bears' Jeremiah Wilkinson misfired on a jumper in the closing seconds.

Ndongo finished with a career-high 26 points and 13 rebounds and George had 26 points and eight assists to lead Georgia Tech (13-13, 7-8). Duncan Powell added 19 points and six boards.

Wilkinson – a native of Powder Springs, Georgia, located roughly 20 miles west of Atlanta – hit 4 of 7 from behind the arc and scored 25 points to lead the Golden Bears. Stojakovic was 4 of 7 from deep and added 22 points, his 10th 20-point effort of the season and first since Jan. 11. Sissoko posted 10 points and 11 rebounds for his second double-double of the season while Petraitis (12 points) and Campbell (10) rounded out Cal’s five double-figure scorers.

The teams played for the first time in Atlanta. The Bears won three previous meetings, all of them played in the state of California.

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Cal clashes with rival Stanford next Saturday, Feb. 22, at Maples Pavilion. The contest will be televised on ESPN2.

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