For Pete's Sake

Georgia Tech basketball team celebrates win by smashing a coronavirus piñata

Here’s guessing a lot of people would like to take a crack at this thing.

Georgia Tech basketball coach Josh Pastner brought out a very special piñata in the locker room to celebrate a 75-64 win at Nebraska on Wednesday.

The Yellow Jackets had started a tradition after winning a road game in which the players would get all the junk food they wanted at a gas station. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s not happening.

So Pastner improvised with the piñata after topping the Cornhuskers. I’m not sure anyone has seen this before, but the piñata was shaped like a coronavirus.

Weird, right? Well, then again, maybe not for 2020.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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