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ATLANTA - Louisiana Tech will wrap up non-conference action this week when the Lady Techsters travel to compete in the two-day, four-team Georgia Tech Holiday Classic Monday and Tuesday.

Head coach Tyler Summitt and Co. will open the tournament Monday at 1 p.m. CT when the Lady Techsters face the Harvard Crimson at McCamish Pavilion. The host Yellow Jackets will then face Lipscomb in the second game of the day.

The two winners will face off Tuesday in the championship game slated for 3 p.m. CT while the consolation game tips off at 1 p.m.

Both of Tech's games in the tournament can be heard on the LA Tech Sports Network on KNBB 97.7 FM and KTKC 92.9 FM with the pregame show starting 30 minutes prior to tipoff.

Tech (4-5) has never played any of the three teams in the Georgia Tech Holiday Classic. The contest against Harvard (5-4) will be the program's first ever against a current member of the Ivy League (the Ivy League is one of only three conferences that LA Tech has never played joining the Big South and the Northeast Conferences).

The Lady Techsters are coming off a 67-52 loss at Utah on Dec. 20 in a game that saw LA Tech shoot only 24 percent from the field, scoring a season low in points. Tech has been up and down this season, alternating wins and losses in its last seven games.

Summitt's group has shown it can play with top caliber teams, taking 19th ranked Mississippi State down to the wire before falling 81-77 in Starkville just over two weeks ago. However, the Lady Techsters still lack the consistency that the Tech coaching staff continues to preach on a daily basis.

Harvard enters the game with wins over Colgate, Quinnipiac, Holy Cross, Massachusetts and Northeastern. The Crimson are paced by 6-foot-4-inch senior forward Temi Fagbenle, averaging a double-double with 14.2 points and 12.2 rebounds per game and 23 double-doubles over her career.

Fagbenle has five double-doubles through nine games in 2014-15, most recently 16 points and 16 rebounds against Northeastern. The senior from London, England ranks 28th in the NCAA in double-doubles.

Forwards Annmarie Haley (12.8 ppg) and Erin McDonnell (13.1 ppg) are also averaging double figures for Harvard. As a team the Crimson are one of the top three-point shooting teams in the country, averaging almost eight made threes per game.

Following the tournament, the Lady Techsters will return home and open Conference USA play Sunday (Jan. 4) when they host Southern Miss at 3 p.m.