Post by DanMcQ on Feb 26, 2007 19:55:43 GMT -5
paraphrased quote from Bob Ryan on the radio drive home in Boston: "the one team I would NOT want to play from this point on is Georgetown - they are the hottest team in the country and capable of winning it all" He followed it up with a "of course, now that I've said that they'll probably flop tonight"
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"We picked the wrong night to have maybe our worst day of the year," coach John Thompson III said after his team's first loss since Jan. 13 at Pittsburgh.
If Saturday's victory over Pittsburgh was simply poor basketball between two teams anxious for a league title, last night's loss was simply old school Big East hoops between one team desperate for a signature win on senior night and another drained by six weeks of defending its streak.
"We probably caught [Georgetown] at a pretty good time," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "They've been playing better than anybody in our conference, obviously, and maybe anyone in the country. ... But we played really well tonight. This was by far the best game we played at home this year. I think a lot of the credit goes to these seniors. Five or six games ago, our fans were booing them right here in the Carrier Dome, and they had to decide they were going to do something about it."
"We got shots that guys normally make that didn't go in tonight," Thompson said. "Yeah, it was because of them. It was because of their defense. But for large stretches, we got the looks and shots that we wanted, and the ball didn't go in. Then down on the other end, I don't know what the exact number was, but during a key stretch it felt like they hit three or four 3-pointers in a row. You can't let that happen on the road."
If Saturday's victory over Pittsburgh was simply poor basketball between two teams anxious for a league title, last night's loss was simply old school Big East hoops between one team desperate for a signature win on senior night and another drained by six weeks of defending its streak.
"We probably caught [Georgetown] at a pretty good time," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "They've been playing better than anybody in our conference, obviously, and maybe anyone in the country. ... But we played really well tonight. This was by far the best game we played at home this year. I think a lot of the credit goes to these seniors. Five or six games ago, our fans were booing them right here in the Carrier Dome, and they had to decide they were going to do something about it."
"We got shots that guys normally make that didn't go in tonight," Thompson said. "Yeah, it was because of them. It was because of their defense. But for large stretches, we got the looks and shots that we wanted, and the ball didn't go in. Then down on the other end, I don't know what the exact number was, but during a key stretch it felt like they hit three or four 3-pointers in a row. You can't let that happen on the road."
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Coach John Thompson III was asked if it was nice to have the streak -- which tied the longest conference winning streak in program history -- over with, so the team could focus on different things.
"It's not nice to lose," said Thompson, who was one of four people to receive a technical foul (Georgetown's Tyler Crawford and Syracuse's Paul Harris and Eric Devendorf were the others). "It's not nice to lose having played poorly. Sometimes you sit up here and say we fought, we toughed it out, but we ended up with less points. But tonight we had maybe our worst night of the year."
The Hoyas, who entered as the second-best shooting team in the country (52.3 percent), made only 17 of 57 shots, or 29.8 percent -- easily their worst showing of the season (previous low: 41.5 percent against Hartford in the season-opener). In the second half, they were a woeful 6 for 30. Credit should go to Syracuse's vaunted zone defense, but at the same time, the Hoyas got -- and missed -- some good shots, particularly inside.
"For large stretches, we got the looks but the ball didn't go in," Thompson said. "You can't miss some of those shots on the road."
"It's not nice to lose," said Thompson, who was one of four people to receive a technical foul (Georgetown's Tyler Crawford and Syracuse's Paul Harris and Eric Devendorf were the others). "It's not nice to lose having played poorly. Sometimes you sit up here and say we fought, we toughed it out, but we ended up with less points. But tonight we had maybe our worst night of the year."
The Hoyas, who entered as the second-best shooting team in the country (52.3 percent), made only 17 of 57 shots, or 29.8 percent -- easily their worst showing of the season (previous low: 41.5 percent against Hartford in the season-opener). In the second half, they were a woeful 6 for 30. Credit should go to Syracuse's vaunted zone defense, but at the same time, the Hoyas got -- and missed -- some good shots, particularly inside.
"For large stretches, we got the looks but the ball didn't go in," Thompson said. "You can't miss some of those shots on the road."
GUHoyas.com Recap
Box Score
Bad numbers:
- 19 TOs
- Starting forwards 4-23 from the floor
- Starting guards 3-19 from the floor
- 6-25 from 3
