CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Georgia Tech and Virginia have pieced together enough stretches during the season to provide doses of encouragement.They’ll need to show the ability for sustained batches in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, beginning with their meeting in a second-round game on Wednesday. Both teams received byes in the first round.”If we’re going to make a run, it has to start on Wednesday,” Georgia Tech coach Damon Stoudamire said.Ninth-seeded Virginia (15-16) has lost four of its past six games.Eighth-seeded Georgia Tech (16-15) had a three-game winning streak end with Saturday’s 69-43 loss at Wake Forest. That was the season-low point total for the Yellow Jackets.”Last month we played really well except for a couple of games,” Stoudamire said. “We’re in a good space. You’ve got to run off some games.”Virginia ended the regular season with a thud, falling 84-70 at Syracuse on Saturday night. The Cavaliers don’t want their season to end on such a downer.”That is just unacceptable,” Virginia interim coach Ron Sanchez said. “We are better than that. … Now it’s time for postseason play, so there’s got to be a level of excitement from all of us.”
