Tech officials had believed that, by withdrawing from the ACC tournament (which began without the Yellow Jackets) and also informing the NCAA that it was sitting out of the postseason, the team had effectively sat out of the postseason, one of a number of penalties issued by the NCAA last September. However, the cancellation of the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament because of the spread of the coronavirus raised questions about whether the penalty might carry over into next season, on the contention that there was no 2020 postseason to sit out, although the ACC tournament did play two rounds without Tech.

In a teleconference with media March 21, athletic director Todd Stansbury said that he believed that the team had "most definitely" served the penalty.