BET: Hoyas Rally, Beat SHU - Discussion & Links

[DanMcQ]

Link to Bigeast.org Live game stat summary

bigeast.liveathleticstats.com/men/games.asp?gameid=game2

One word:

OWENS.

OK, two:

GREEN.


GU Quotes
Georgetown 56, Seton Hall 51

COACH JOHN THOMPSON III
DARREL OWENS
BRANDON BOWMAN


www.bigeast.org/sports/mbball/champs/quotes/2005/game1_gw.asp

Q. Coach, obviously you don't have a lot of time to enjoy this win. Some people say you're playing against one of the best teams in the country. Talk about what you have to do tomorrow in order to get a win.

COACH JOHN THOMPSON III: Make shots and guard our guy. It's a simple game. Simple game.
As Brandon is whispering in my ear, which I've been whispering to them five games now, rebound.
Obviously, we're playing against a very good team. A team that is playing very well right now. What do we have to do? We have to execute. We cannot have any lapses. We played them, this is the second time we would have played them in a week, 10 days, something like that. We had a few stretches in that first game where we had some lapses, and we have to eliminate those, eliminate the length of those.
We have to play well. There's no two ways about it. We have to play very well at the offensive end, we have to play very well at the defensive end, and we have to come down with the ball.

SHU Quotes

www.bigeast.org/sports/mbball/champs/quotes/2005/game1_sh.asp

[DanMcQ]

AP Recap: Georgetown Earns Second Round Date with UConn

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=250680046


Box Score

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=250680046

Hoyas outrebound an opponent for the first time in recent memory. 80% from the line; 13 assists on 15 made field goals, 10-19 from 3. Jeff Green with 5 blocks, 9 rebounds, 2 steals, 3 assists.


Game Photos

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/photos?gameId=250680046

[DanMcQ]

Washington Post: Hoyas Win With a Late Surge
Game-Ending 23-7 Run Ends Slide at Five: Georgetown 56, Seton Hall 51

By Camille Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 10, 2005

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21887-2005Mar9.html

"It was like deja vu all over again," said Owens, who hit four three-pointers in that run. "I wasn't necessarily thinking about the last five games, but about last year [when the Hoyas ended the season with a nine-game losing streak]. But Coach Thompson gives us so much confidence, and once I hit that first three, I knew we could do it."

Hoyas Grow a Little in the Garden

By Mike Wise
Thursday, March 10, 2005

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22198-2005Mar9.html

Georgetown sent Madison Square Garden into a tizzy Wednesday night. Like old times, the Hoyas lived to play another day by seizing a wild Big East tournament game in the final minutes. It wasn't for the conference championship. The original Hoya Destroya, Patrick Ewing, was not depositing a layup by Chris Mullin into the third row en route to a national title, circa 1984.

But it was a huge step for a program on the rebound, a victory that cements Thompson's improbable first year as one of the best coaching jobs in college basketball this season.

[DanMcQ]

NY Times: Two Teams on Bubble Keep Their Hopes Alive
by Bill Finley

www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/sports/ncaabasketball/10east.html

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DanMcQ said:

Link to Bigeast.org Live game stat summary

bigeast.liveathleticstats.com/men/games.asp?gameid=game2

One word:

OWENS.

OK, two:

GREEN.

I think it was Bowens(bowman 1st half, owens second), and despite owen's cluthness, Green deserved player of the game for playing solid a whole game and having some absolutely vicious blocks.

[nodak89]

That was a heck of a comeback! This was a great game for my first "realtime" game viewing of the year. The other 2 ESPNClassic games were during confirmation class so I had to tape those. Lucky for me, tonight's class got cancelled at the last second around noon today.

What a great night sitting on a blanket with my wife and kids having a pizza picnic on the floor and watching the game.

Right at the end when I started to flip out a little (the turnover on the inbounds) and I'm getting a bit whiny, my 8 yr old daughter says with supreme confidence (and naivete) "But, Dad, were going to win!"
"I hope so"
"NO! We're going to win!"

Then after the game we "rushed the court." We all jumped around like crazy on the picnic blanket. Then she says, "How come they're not rushing the court?" motioning to the TV.

My 4 yr old son then runs upstairs to mom (who went to lay down after halftime trying to rest and get over the virus du Jour) and is jumping up and down yelling "WE WON! WE WON! WE WON, MOM!"




It's good to be the dad.

[Cambridge]

Awesome!!! Love the story. Start them young. Get them hooked. Georgetown Forever.

[nychoya3]

bigeast.org/sports/mbball/champs/quotes/2005/game1_gw.asp

Post-game PC. Haven't really read it all yet, but should be good.

[hoyatown5168]

Green was a defensive PRESENCE tonight, and made some blocks I haven't seen him make in the past. Let's hope he keeps it up tomorrow night.

[FHillsNYHoya]

ECSTATIC with the win, but would like to see Green a bit more aggressive on the offensive end.

I never thought we'd be able to come back when down fairly big pretty late in the game. Very happy for DJ - even if he isn't brought back, he'll be able to look at this game as a great way to near the end of his career.

If not for Bobo's first half 3s and Owens' second half 3s, what a bad offensive game we would have had.....................but i'll take it!!!!

[DanMcQ]

Wash Times: Staying alive

By Barker Davis


www.washtimes.com/sports/20050310-122227-4365r.htm

[HoyaFanNY]

we really need to cut down on the turnovers. jeff played a great game defensivley, but he was horrible on the offensive end. too many to's with him handling the ball at the top. he and roy need to have monster games if want to have a shot at the upset. we need to penetrate and kick or go inside out for the open 3 instead of passing the ball around the perimeter for 30 seconds and then chucking a 3 at the end of the clock.

[Cambridge]

We cut down the turnovers in the second half...didn't we have 12 in the first half and only 5 in the second?

[DanMcQ]

RU, Hall face dim futures
Thursday, March 10, 2005

By ADRIAN WOJNAROWSKI
SPORTS COLUMNIST

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Rutgers played a marvelous game late Wednesday night, ending Notre Dame's NCAA tournament hopes with a 72-65 victory to advance to the quarterfinals tonight against Syracuse. Still, it's been a miserable season for the Scarlet Knights, one in which Gary Waters' haphazard recruiting has left him with a bottomed-out, barely competitive roster. For one night at the Garden, anyway, they looked like they belonged in the Big East - even if they had lost 14 of 16 conference games before the league tournament.

As one Big East assistant coach said: "Those two teams are in a lot of trouble, because I don't think those staffs can keep up the recruiting pace they're going to need moving forward right now. As it is, they're treading water."

Rutgers can't stop patting itself on the back for its early signing class of state prospects, a class that Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim and Jay Wright aren't losing much sleep over. Yet, Rutgers is doing what it always does: Using its own dismal past as the standard for present achievement, insisting, "Well, it's better than we had." Once again, Rutgers needs to use the standards for success in the world in which it competes, not its past incompetence.

...pretty harsh stuff in that last paragraph (though not unfounded).

[DanMcQ]

Asbury Park Press: Seton Hall goes cold vs. Georgetown

Pirates score 1 field goal in final 8 minutes vs. Hoyas
Published in the Asbury Park Press 03/10/05
By JERRY CARINOb]

www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/SPORTS02/503100454/1010/SPORTS

[DanMcQ]

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