ATLANTA-No. 14-seed Georgia State will return to the NCAA tournament for the second-straight year and third time in five years on Friday facing No.3-seed Houston at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., at 7:20 p.m. ET live on TBS. Georgia State will be looking to advance out of the first round for the third time in program history.
Georgia State (24-9) will face Houston (31-3) out of the American Athletic Conference, the same league the Panthers went up against in the NCAA Tournament last season (Cincinnati). The Panthers won the Sun Belt Conference Tournament for a second consecutive year on Sunday and enter the tournament having won five-straight games and eight of its last nine.