In Collier’s eight seasons, the Jackets have remodeled from a team that hadn’t created the NCAA Tournament in additional than a 10 years into a nationally competitive outfit and one that, with many sellouts in O’Keefe Gymnasium, has carved out a niche in the Tech supporter base.

4. $125 million capital campaign ends productively

In what was arguably the most sizeable accomplishment of athletic director Todd Stansbury’s tenure, the athletic division done fund-increasing in March on its a few-calendar year, $125 million capital campaign, considerably surpassing its intention with $175.4 million raised in presents and commitments. That bundled just about $85 million earmarked for the centerpiece of the Athletics Initiative 2020 marketing campaign, the comprehensive renovation of the Edge/Rice Middle, the athletic division headquarters.

Other jobs incorporated a $9 million renovation of the baseball elaborate, now named the Mac Nease Baseball Park, new locker rooms for the football and women’s basketball groups and three endowed head-coaching positions. Noticeably, Stansbury completed fund-elevating initiatives in the midst of the pandemic, when experience-to-confront assembly was much more difficult and committing to a very long-phrase fiscal reward became a more precarious proposition.

In the midst of that success, although, Tech’s once-a-year budgeting continued to be a problem, as the section has sought to extend methods although replenishing a reserve fund that began the fiscal 12 months with a deficit of additional than $13 million.

3. Women’s basketball Sweet 16 berth

In her second yr, women’s basketball mentor Nell Fortner led the Jackets again to the NCAA Tournament for the initially time given that 2014 and encouraging Tech progress to the Sweet 16, tying for the farthest progress in team history. The Jackets also tied for third in the ACC in the typical time, the optimum that they had at any time completed. A highwater level was a 7-video game successful streak capped by a 71-69 household win around Clemson in which the Jackets ended up down by nine details with 2:54 still left in the activity right before scoring the ultimate 11 points of the video game. The Jackets summoned their resilience once more by rallying from a 17-place halftime deficit to Stephen F….