Cincinnati Game Article Links

[DanMcQ]

Cincinnati Enquirer: Louisville whips 'listless' UC
'Cats fall behind big early and never recover




Cincinnati Enquirer: UC is full of heart moving to Bubbleville
Just how many wins left for Bearcats?




Cincinnati Post: An all-around disaster -
Bearcats' play is worst so far

[DanMcQ]

HoyaSaxa.com PreGame Report



Georgetown Game Notes



Cincinnati Game Notes



UC plagued by shooting woes
Bearcats hitting just 36.3 percent from field in their past five games

BY BILL KOCH | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

[KHoyaNYC]

This isn't quite a "game" link per se, but I found it on the Cincy message board. It is a projection of the BE season, based on 10,000 seasons being played, using some sort of combination of KenPom and Sagarin ratings. Anyway, enjoy:

www.sportsandnumbers.com/freeblog/2006/01/big-east-simulated-conference-race-jan.html

[Grandpa]

Will league Big East break 7-bid barrier?

Cincinnati Post

Nothing really specific to Georgetown-Cincy game, but has a quote from JTIII:

news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/SPT0201/601270307/1035/RSS03

[subflea]

For more Bearcat articles check bearcatnews.com.


Here's one for instance: BearcatNews' Keys to the Game

[SFHoya99]

Connecticut, Pitt, Villanova and West Virginia are in.

Syracuse, Georgetown, Marquette and Cincy are in right now.

Louisville has an outside shot.

Somewhere between 7-9 and a lot of that depends on Cincy.

[Grandpa]

Yahoo AP Game Preview

sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/preview?gid=200601280229

[Grandpa]

Bearcats' Season Has Been Eventful
Cincinnati Perseveres Despite Adversity
By Camille Powell

Washington Post

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701463.html

[DanMcQ]

Hoyas must slow athletic Bearcats
Barker Davis, Washington Times

"We know there are a bunch of guys on that team that are very athletic," said Georgetown senior swingman D.J. Owens, the team's best on-ball defender. "One of the highest flyers in the country, James White, is their leading scorer [16.8 points]. We know if they have a bunch of guys that want to take it to the basket, it's our job to take charges and try and get them out of what they want to do."

"Cincinnati is a very aggressive team, a team that can get around you and get to the basket," said Georgetown coach John Thompson III, who is almost certain to confront the all-drive, can't-shoot Bearcats with a compact zone defense.

[Grandpa]

Another Barker article about the former Conf USA teams performance in the "new" Big East:

Old school: Big East still about tradition

www.washtimes.com/sports/20060127-115836-5639r.htm

[DanMcQ]

FOXSports Box Score


Hoyas 76, Bearcats 57

Hoyas hold Cinci to 25% from the field in the half.


HoyaSaxa.com Game Recap

[burghoya]

ESPN post game release

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=260280046

[Bay99]

Complete box score:

sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200601280229

[DanMcQ]

Hoyas Clamp Down on Bearcats
Defense, Efficient Offense Yield No. 21 Georgetown's Fourth Straight Win: Georgetown 76, Cincinnati 57


Camille Powell story...

[CO_Hoya]

Hoyas currently top "ESPNews Headline," with logo, above other 3 BE final scores. Copy reads:

Hoyas Dare Annoy Ya - Georgetown's execution of the Princeton offense, not to mention tough D, proved too much for visiting Cincinnati, 76-57.

(Story is same link Dan has)

Link to photos

[DanMcQ]

Bearcat.com: You Cannot Go Home Again!

[DanMcQ]

GUHoyas.com Game Recap



GUHoyas.com Box Score



GUHoyas.com Photo Gallery



GUHoyas.com PostGame Quotes

Coach John Thompson III

Our group realizes we can get a lot better. We are still at the midpoint of the season, you can get caught up in what’s happened in the past week and start to feel good and forget that this is the Big East. There are 16 very, very good teams and if we don’t show up to play
every night we can lose to every team we play. Our guys realize that and we just have to stay focused and keep working and keep trying to get better.

On the alumni in the stands…

I don’t know whether it affected our guys, but I’m sitting there thinking ‘I sure as heck hope we play well today.’ It’s important that all our former players showed up today because we are a part of them and they are a part of us. As we continue to go forward and progress, our guys have to have an understanding of all the caring and tears that all of those guys put into this program. It’s easy to walk into McDonough and see the jersey wall, and it’s pretty impressive to see everyone that was drafted, but we are just as proud and it is just
as important, if not more important, of the success stories of Georgetown basketball of all those guys that aren’t up on the wall.

[DanMcQ]

The Hoyas go international.... this article apparently from tomorrow's NY Daily News - first found in Australia of all places...

INS sport: Georgetown Basketball on the Rise Again

It's the type of effort that makes a father proud. "Where are we going to dinner?" asked John Thompson Jr., poking his head into his son's postgame press conference.

Big John won a national championship here with Patrick Ewing back in 1984, suffocating any team that stood in his way with full-court pressure. In many ways, this father and son are opposites when it comes to coaching philosophy. But it is obvious Big John admires what his son has accomplished here in a short time. "With me, it's not so much the system, but who's running it," he said. "There are a lot of guys trying to run that system and it's not working. John's got it working."

John Thompson III felt a little extra pressure heading into this game. Georgetown invited former players back for a reunion. "Since I've been here I've gotten a lot of questions - `Does your dad stick his head in? How's your dad feel about what you're doing?' I can deal with that. But when you realize Michael Jackson and Gene Smith and Ronnie Highsmith are sitting in the stands, I don't know if it affected our guys, but I was like I hope we play well today. I don't want to hear from those guys."

Thompson, who arrived in the league at the same time as St. John's Norm Roberts, has the pieces in place to be a national power in the new Big East.

The frightening part for Georgetown's opponents is that the best is yet to come. Thompson and assistant Kevin Broadus, who helped Karl Hobbs recruit the nucleus of an A-10 championship team when he first arrived at GW, are starting to lock up the Baltimore-D.C. area again, much like Thompson's father did in the `80s.

[DanMcQ]

Hoyas Report



Hoyas Keep Rolling

[SirSaxa]

W. Post Camille Powell

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800510.html