Best Games in Hoyas History

[2ndRyan]

Big East Championship 1987

Georgetown had Reggie Williams, a 6'4" center whose name I can't even remember and a bunch of other role-players. Syracuse had Rony Seikaly, Derrick Coleman and Sherman Douglas.

Georgetown leads wire-to-wire and wins 69-59.

That team is beaten in Elite Eight by Providence w/Billy Donovan.

[Hoya50]

hey frostback - i was at that game as well. my 1st hoya game. drove up from rochester, ny. cooooolllldd weekend in toronto. entertaining game and you clearly see the tension between othella and allen. too bad butler's grades got him because he was a good player.

best game i've seen though was later that season at the carrier dome. i sat in student seating amongst the dreaded su wackos. great view of the court. gu was down like 8 at the half and came back to win. play i most remember was wallace flying to the hole going baseline and jerome meeting him in the air. you could hear the collision. fabulous game.

[tgo]

cant believe i forgot the NIT home game in 1993 when we hosted UTEP at McDonough, greatest game ever.
almost held them to single digits for the half I think it was 38-11 at the half.
The Hoya crowd was mock chanting "Lets go UTEP" late in the first half.

[hoyainspirit]

The game in which we destroyed Chris Mullin and the Johnnies is hard to top. Coming back against BC at BC down 7 with 30 seconds to play is also a great memory. Maryland at the Amory. The BET game in which the Pearl showed how great a college player he was. I loved playing Syracuse because they were really exciting and good. Just not quite as good as us!!! Finally, the Kentucky game. Joe B. Hall was reduced to stammering trying to describe the Hoyas. We held them scoreless for almost half of the 2nd half.

[EasyEd]

I recall that none of the Kentucky starters made a field goal in the second half. Wow.

[aggypryd]

Did anyone mention the Ohio State/Georgetown game in the '87 tourney?

Down by about 17 in the second half and came back and won by 3...

Charles Smith coming out party...

[Nevada Hoya]

Any time we beat UNLV out in Las Vegas was great, and the two I remember were great games. One with Sleepy leading the Hoyas to victory in '80 or '81, and that was the final game at the Convention Center, where UNLV played their games until the Thomas and Mack Center. One of our secretaries at work was a UNLV student and cheerleader at the time. I had fun with that. The other game is when Patrick led the Hoyas into T&M, and UNLV very rarely lost there under Tark. It was a great game, and the Hoyas pulled it out in overtime.

My best game during my four years at GU was our defeat of NYU (ranked at that time) on national TV. We never got on TV during my time there, but we beat a nationally ranked team during the one game on TV. Frank Hollander, our 6'11" center, scored 29 points in the first half of this game. Unfortunately, we took a beating in the NY press after this game.

[aggypryd]

Nevada said:

My best game during my four years at GU was our defeat of NYU (ranked at that time) on national TV. We never got on TV during my time there, but we beat a nationally ranked team during the one game on TV. Frank Hollander, our 6'11" center, scored 29 points in the first half of this game. Unfortunately, we took a beating in the NY press after this game.

What did the NY press have to say?

Just curious...

[WilsonBlvdHoya]

hoyainspirit said:

The game in which we destroyed Chris Mullin and the Johnnies is hard to top. Coming back against BC at BC down 7 with 30 seconds to play is also a great memory. Maryland at the Amory. The BET game in which the Pearl showed how great a college player he was. I loved playing Syracuse because they were really exciting and good. Just not quite as good as us!!! Finally, the Kentucky game. Joe B. Hall was reduced to stammering trying to describe the Hoyas. We held them scoreless for almost half of the 2nd half.

Actually the UK shutout was over half of the 2nd half; something like 11 minutes....

My favorites:

80 Sweet 16 victory over the Twerps
80 "Manley Field House is officially closed"
80 BC Comeback
80 BET Champs
80 Elite Eight loss to Iowa, 81-80 is nonetheless an incredible game
81 Victory over Syracuse at McD--got to harass Marty Headd
82 January demolishing of SJU at MSG--GU was up 41-9 in 1st half
82 Missouri win at McD--never been at a non-rock-concert indoor arena event with that much noise
82 BET run with a convincing final over Nova
82 Elite Eight victory over OSU--team shot something like 74%--JT harassed media for an article that said GU couldn't shoot
82 National Semifinal Nailbiter over Louisville
82 UNC final - a classic although tough to take
82 Dec--the UVA media-hyped game
83 SU at the Dome -- Michael Jackson lights it up from deep to beat the Orangemen
83 Wingate steals the ball with 7 secs left, goes length of the floor to lay it in at the buzzer to beat BC at Cap Centre
84 BET final- Pearl and Ewing put on a classic. Magoo throws chair in post-game press conference
84 SMU--no defibrillators allowed. Were it not for a Ewing tip-in from the lane off a Gene Smith missed free throw!!!
84 KY --- JT has said this was the best performance of any of his teams. The best defensive outing in the history of the NCAA tourney...
84 Houston --- That championship game. Graham and Ewing scowling and Wingate and Williams hustling...
85 DePaul -- #1 vs. #2 turned into a 20 pt. blowout for the good guys
85 SU -- crowd starts throwing oranges at Ewing on FT line; JT pulls team--Magoo begs primates to behave. Pearl pulls it out late
85 SJU -- the Johnnies always better at Cap Centre than MSG--GU goes down early, mounts a furious comeback, falls short by 1
85 SJU -- MSG, the Sweater game, the first of 3 hurtings on the Johnnies by GU
85 BET -- GU runs rampant. Ewing reverse dunks over Wennington in the final
85 GTech, Elite Eight, Dalton hits two big free throws late to seal it. Price goes unusually cold from the field
85-- SJU National Semifinal--Wingate et al shut down Mullin--Hoyas cruise into the Final
85 -- Nova -- Rienzo had this right--sometimes you just run into a team of destiny. Might have been different if Broadnax and Martin didn't flubb a pass on the perimeter with about 4 minutes left. Ewing proudly gives #1 sign when accepting his trophy; Hoyas clap politely for Cats
86 Nova -- GU took some small revenge for previous year's loss
87 Reggie and the Miracles -- was abroad for this year but heard some action on shortwave radio...BET sounded lots of fun
88 Cuse--Smitty goes length of the floor with secs left to hit a running layin in the lane at the buzzer...
88 LSU 1st round NCAAs--Smitty hits a banked 3 at the buzzer to win
89 Mourning and Smitty lead charge through BET with a pasting of Cuse and Coleman in the Final
89 Princeton -- was it a foul??? Alonzo saves the day
89 NC State in Sweet 16--Dwayne Bryant hits a deep 3 to halt a late Wolfpack run after Corchiani was called for traveling on a bad call during which State could have taken the lead
89 Duke - ugh
90 or 91 Beat Duke in ACC-BE Challenge
90 or 91 Beat UNC in ACC-BE Challenge
92 Alonzo leads team to BET final. Doesn't quite get to Johnson in time for the block with secs left and SU gets 1st BET title in 6 or so tries and 1st time ever over GU in 5 finals
93 Harrington leads team to NIT final against Minnesota. Millen misses late corner jumper which would have sealed the game and capped an amazing comeback
93 Early season game against Md. Coming out party of Joe Smith. Joey Brown banks in a ridiculous 3 late but Harrington can't quite a block a Md. lay-up with secs left...
94 #1 Arkansas opens with GU. Routs Hoyas but Nolan Richardson exclaims something to the effect of, "I've seen Elvis, I've seen rope-doggin' but I've never seen anything like that," upon describing the play of Allen Iverson
94 2nd round NCAA against Weber State--Don Reid rebounds Iverson airball with tenths of a sec. left and lays it in after State misses 2 FTs. JT dances on the sideline while Chvotkin goes apopleptic..
94 Sweet 16 UNC game. Rasheed gets the best of Othella, prompting GU fans to wonder oh what might have been if Wallace picked GU over UNC
95 GTech -- a nervous Stephon Marbury is outperformed by Allen Iverson in a pre-season tournament
96 Nova -- with much of the Wildcat lineup suspended for abuse of "telephone privileges" GU routs Cats behind Iverson and Page
96 BET Semis--with revenge on their minds Nova is again routed again behind 30+ points from Victor Page
96 BET final -- No call on UConn foul of Jerome Williams allows Huskies to complete crushing last minute comeback
96 Sweet 16 Texas Tech -- One of Harrington's finest performances as a Hoya allows GU to escape a wild and woolly offensive opponent
96 Elite Eight UMass-- ugh, aside from the early two-handed Allen Iverson slam in the lane, GU is manhandled by the Minutemen. Instead of being emotionally crushed in the aftermath, AI is seen leaving the court on national television, clapping his hands and contemplating his new American Motors Mercedes of Arlington E230...
97 WVU -- Victor Page hits a late jumper in the lane at WVU to seal the win
97 Providence -- Page leads the Hoyas to the BE West title and an NCAA appearance
98 FL. 1st round NIT -- Shernard Long makes last second lay-in, off some nice passing, for Hoyas to advance
99 JT surprisingly retires
00 1st round NIT @ UVA... Hester hits huge late 3, Braswell and Scruggs play on empty but Hoyas win triple-OT thriller
01 Team starts off 16-0, including 2 straight wins over SHU which induces psychotic, team-destroying collapse by Eddie Griffin
01 Arkansas 1st Round NCAAs--Nat Burton at the top of the key. Holds, holds, holds, holds till the last possible millisecond to drive the lane for a lay-in for the victory
01 Sweet 16 vs. MD -- Lee Scruggs learns to watch what he says to the media about the Twerps front line....
03 NIT run against Tennessee, UNC and Minnesota shows team has some heart. Shooting collapses against SJU in the final
04 #1 Illinois--GU proves it is on the way back. Offensive lapses and defensive quickness doom the team but signs of renewal are blatant
04 Rainbow Classic Clemson -- GU executes to a tee...
04 Pittsburgh--JT III welcomes the Panthers to his new coaching regime with brilliant execution by his players for his inaugural BE victory

[TrueHoyaBlue]

That's it?

;D

[WilsonBlvdHoya]

TrueHoyaBlue said:

That's it?

;D

LOL!!! Actually I forgot to add a lot of the UNLV, Memphis and LSU games, most of which GU won! (except for the 89 game at the Superdome where GU was ranked #2 and would have been ranked #1 had they won....)

[aggypryd]

Those bring back some memories...

The '87 team was great!!!

We beat Carolina in the first ACC/Big East challenge...in'89...

And Duke the following year...in '90...

Both games played in December...(I think)...

Xavier game was the worst officiated game I've seen...you know the officiating is bad when die-hard Carolina fans come up to you and say, "Georgetown got cheated!"

I remember the Villanova game in '96..."Allen Iverson is one tough Little Monkey!" --Billy Packer...

I don't know if you mentioned the Memphis State games...but the one played in Canada was wonderful...Brendan Gaughn declaring Butler's 3 pointer 'good' as the ball leaves George's hands...

The Memphis State game in '96 was a pure dunk-fest...I gotta go find that tape...

[aggypryd]

don't forget the UCONN game in '96...

Iverson coming down the 'pipe' and dunking in the half-court set...

[hoyarooter]

Thanks to WBH for mentioning the victory over Maryland in the Sweet 16 in 1980. Except for the wins over Houston and Kentucky, that game would be #1 on my list. That game announced "we have arrived," and it couldn't have been sweeter than to take it to Lefty. Of course, little did we know that the Iowa game two days later would presage Villanova '84.

[Nevada Hoya]

Aggy, it didn't have anything to do with the game itself, but about some of the crowd. It had been a tradition, since 1962, when I arrived on campus as a freshman, and mainly in the New South cafeteria to have this particular student (I think he was a soph in '62) to stand up, spout off some gutteral nonsense (sounding like German) and everybody would reply "heil." I always thought it was a parody on the mindless acquiescence of the German crowd to Hitler. I am sure most people took it that way. And the same student would do it at bball games too. However, against NYU, it was perceived in the NY press as an anti-semetic act, since there were a lot of Jewish students at NYU. Since NYU lost badly, it was considered a taunt. But it was happening two or three years before the game and was not directed at NYU. It was never repeated after the game.

[inigo]

What did the NY press have to say?

Just curious...

Aggypryd: That year at every game in McDonough one of the fans performed at some point a crowd-pleasing shtick: he would stand up and shout gibberish-pseudo-German (mocking, I suppose, a 1930's Nuremberg rally). He always ended up screaming maniacally: "SIEG!" And the crowd would reply: "Heil!"

Because we were on TV for the NYU game a number of students dressed in crazy costumes, hoping to catch the camera's eye. This fellow (or maybe his friends) thought it would be a great idea if he dressed in a German military outfit. and the cameraman was alerted to his performance.

New York and Washington sportswriters described it as an act of insensitivity and possibly a manifestation of anti-semitism. The president of the Yard had to fly up to New York and apologize to student leaders at NYU.

[Nevada Hoya]

Inigo, were you there too? The president of the Yard at the time might have been Gov. Frank Keating, the former governor of Oklahoma.

[SirSaxa]

WOW! Lots of great memories all over this thread.
I would cite the UK demolition and the SJU game at MSG -- they were favored, all kinds of press for Mullin their miracle freshman, they were highly ranked, and Patrick & Co. destroyed them.... leading 42-9 at one point.

One other fond memory... Iverson's second year. GU had one of those runs vs. Nova when we completely wiped them out -- stealing everything in sight, turning them into dunks. Nova couldn't do anything with the ball.

After the game, Lappas had a great and memorable quote when asked what happened. He said: " the Georgetown kids played defense like they were going to be shot if they gave up a hoop!"
I'll always remember that. Best description of Hoya defense I ever heard.

[lichoya68]

i forgot about us shutting manley down.. that was sweet when jt said that manley now was officially closed and all the other great ones... was the 6'4' center one perry mcdonald or was that another era thanks everyone for the great memories.. .but how about when dave bing and syracuse came into mcdonough and were ahead of us by a miiion points i believer after jim boo barrys wedding and the boys were celebrating the wedding not the game and lets not forget the to be honored at the in season brunch before this years gu nd game that nit team that held one pete maravich to his lowest point total ever thats ever we lost but what a perfomance .. we wil have to ask mike laska if it was true that the story in the paper was that pete was up really late imbibing at the oak bar or was it just laskas great defense alone what memories you all they were all great go hoyas a uconn win would be sweet

[DFW HOYA]

inigo said:

Because we were on TV for the NYU game a number of students dressed in crazy costumes, hoping to catch the camera's eye. This fellow (or maybe his friends) thought it would be a great idea if he dressed in a German military outfit. and the cameraman was alerted to his performance.

Is this him?

www.hoyabasketball.com/features/66_photo.htm