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Sunday, December 22, 2024
It can be easy to forget that Georgetown is a young team, although at this stage of the season their young players have some games under their belt. But from the outset, this team has played more like a veteran team than one would expect a team with 10 freshmen and sophomores, and the bottom line reflects a team that has learned a lot about how to win.
It’s not every day that three of the greatest coaches ever lose a game on the same day. Yet that’s what happened on another Saturday full of noteworthy games, as Syracuse suffered its first loss on the season, Duke lost at home to put an end to a long home winning streak and Connecticut lost as well.
We’re still a few weeks shy of the beginning of conference play in the Big East, but this past week gave us some of the best tests these teams will see in the nonconference season with the SEC-Big East Challenge. These interconference events are great hooks for college basketball fans […]
Georgetown infuses plenty of young talent that will need to play well early and often to help the Hoyas overcome the loss of two-thirds of the DC3: Austin Freeman and Chris Wright.
Among other recent stories about coaching changes and NBA announcements, the Hurricanes hired a new coach in George Mason’s Jim Larranaga. The weather might be nice, but the climate at Miami might have Larranaga sweating pretty soon.
Georgetown was bounced quickly from the Big East Tournament in convincing fashion by Connecticut on Wednesday. The Hoyas continue to look like a question mark without their point guard.
The top five picks in the NBA Draft feature a pair of energetic scoring guards and forwards and three potentially dominant big men.
The Big East once again has a bunch of highly seeded teams and a chance to place more than one team in the Final Four. But the match ups look daunting for several heavyweights.
As always, the college basketball landscape circa mid-season can alter significantly by March. This season was no exception.
In a Big East that is once again very strong and has some very good teams at the top, Georgetown is starting to assert itself as a contender once again. Tuesday night’s 79-70 win at Providence may be a microcosm of the team’s season, one where they got stronger as the game went along.
