rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Mar 18, 2010 21:59:26 GMT -5
kid, have you posted on this board between your senior year of high school and tonight's game?
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Mar 18, 2010 22:00:45 GMT -5
Actually, it's not even the most embarrassing game this year. Ohio is miles better than Rutgers. It's just that very few of us knew that before tonight.
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Post by prhoya on Mar 18, 2010 22:06:00 GMT -5
At the gamewatch tonight, we all agreed that this was the most embarrassing and hopeless tournament loss by the Hoyas we had seen... ever (that's going back 28 years).
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Post by lucky on Mar 18, 2010 22:08:29 GMT -5
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Madgesdiq
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Post by Madgesdiq on Mar 18, 2010 22:10:31 GMT -5
The only thing on the line is your IQ, which is on the line between moron and imbecile.
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Post by tashoya on Mar 18, 2010 22:20:51 GMT -5
The only thing on the line is your IQ, which is on the line between moron and imbecile. That must be a really, really thick line to not be solidly in imbecile territory. That's the worse one right?
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Post by Madgesdiq on Mar 18, 2010 22:23:36 GMT -5
Yes. Perhaps I should have referenced the line between imbecile and idiot.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Mar 18, 2010 23:34:03 GMT -5
its not humiliating when a better team beats you. i'm still confused when we lose, the excuse is always "we didn't show up". so, for 11 games this season we simply did not show up, and we were a better team than every team we played on our schedule? "well we beat villanova and duke" yeah, well, nova aint all that, and duke certainly isn't. "well, we beat Syracuse in the big east tournament" now that was a game, where the better team did not show up. i'm sorry guys, but we aint that good, we are just okay. we are soft, athletically average, and don't have a floor general to run the offense. our NBA lottery pick at Center's best skill is passing the basketball. that should tell you something. teams like that get bounced in the first round. Thank you Way for putting this in some perspective. This team has some very good individual parts Monroe, Freeman and Wright but really as a team they have some deficiencies athletically and as self-motivators. These guys came together at times during the season and played some great ball and beat some good teams, but it seems as though those were the over-achieving efforts not the normal efforts. So I guess the coach should get credit for getting them this far?
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Post by Huntsville Hoya on Mar 18, 2010 23:47:32 GMT -5
This team broke my heart tonight. I have not seen a more poor defensive effort from a G'town team since I have been a fan. I expect not being ready to play and poor effort from my pro team's (cowboys, Spurs, Braves) but, not showing up against Ohio U. is just unacceptable.
I love my Hoyas but I will be extremely salty all year!
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Post by CTHoya08 on Mar 19, 2010 0:07:12 GMT -5
On the brightside it was pretty painless. agree. i thought this team was going to suffer a vanderbilt type loss when we finally went down. this game was such a joke that i can continue watching the tourney, which i couldn't do in 2008 post-davidson. Disagree with this. I don't think I'll be able to stomach watching any of the rest of the tournament. This is one of only two threads I've opened since the game, and I plan to avoid all threads that aren't about Greg's possible draft status for a long time. Davidson was awful (and it was my senior year) but there was at least enough of a ref angle involved to save the humiliation. No such luck tonight.
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Post by Z on Mar 19, 2010 0:18:47 GMT -5
Actually, it's not even the most embarrassing game this year. Ohio is miles better than Rutgers. It's just that very few of us knew that before tonight. Tas, we are talking about NCAA tourney losses (the kind that end seasons), as the thread title may have suggested - but thanks for your insight as always.
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Post by afalcon10 on Mar 19, 2010 1:04:31 GMT -5
It is the worst loss ever by a 3 Seed to a 14 seed - thats just a fact.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 19, 2010 1:10:23 GMT -5
It is the worst loss ever by a 3 Seed to a 14 seed - thats just a fact. If we're counting points, you'd be right. I'd throw out another possibility ---> The year after UCLA won a national championship (i.e. that team had actually done something), they lost to a team that ran the Princeton offense. The go-ahead basket was a layup. This Georgetown group has done absolutely nothing in the postseason, and we knew coming in that they were simply all over the place in their play.
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Post by Giannicolus Jones on Mar 19, 2010 7:11:58 GMT -5
Most points given up in ANY Georgetown post-season game and that's saying a lot. Most points given up in any NCAA postseason game, any regulation postseason game, and any postseason loss. But we beat Virginia 115-111 in 3OT in 2000 in the NIT when Braswell and Scruggs needed oxygen.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 19, 2010 9:33:16 GMT -5
The reaction by the ostensibly adult members of this community is certainly humiliating.
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Post by vamosalaplaya on Mar 19, 2010 9:52:46 GMT -5
The most humiliating thing was CBS rightfully cutting away from the game in NY because the 14 seed was killing the number 3 seed so bad they figured nobody would want to watch it.
I guess the word "humiliating" is the key here. The 2008 loss at Davidson made me feel alot worse than last night - off-the ball fouls on Hibbert, 17,000 UNC fans, GU got hosed. And that 2008 team was good enough to make it to the Final Four and beyond.
Duke in 1989 was a seminal loss for those of us that were rooting for GU at the time. It represented a symbolic and painful passing of the torch from the GU teams of the 1980s to the Duke dynasty of the 1990s.
As for this year - the Rutgers loss, combined with getting obliterated at home by Notre Dame, left me scratching my head about this team. And Ohio shot out of their heads last night.
Maybe it wasn't the question, but over the last 25 years, this loss barely rates.
It was an exciting year. The team got upset by a blisteringly hot team.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Mar 19, 2010 10:57:17 GMT -5
Yes, unfortunately I'd say most embarrassing and disappointing NCAA loss in Georgetown history - we lost by 14 points to a 14-seed. I can't think of a Georgetown loss ever that is in that league in terms of an upset, especially the way we lost.
I thought the Davidson loss hurt more though. I really thought that team could replicate 2007's success, and maybe even take it a step further. The biggest reason, however, is because that class of Hibbert, Wallace, Ewing, Crawford and Green (I still include him even though he left a year early) was so special, and that was their final game.
I knew this team was capable of an early NCAA exit because of how up and down we were all year. I just didn't think it could happen in the first round against a 14-seed. It also did not come on a fluke buzzer-beater - we were thoroughly dominated. Those two things made it shocking for me.
However, there's no way you can say that this is the worst loss in Georgetown history - we made it to the NCAA's, which is an accomplishment, especially after last season. I don't think any NCAA loss could ever be a "worst loss in history," because it is an accomplishment just to make it to that position. I've only followed the team since 2003, and I'd say the worst loss was in 2004 at MSG, losing to a team of walk-ons from St. John's, a game that finally made me really turn against Esh.
Also, you can't even say that this is the worst NCAA loss ever by any team - there have been several 2-15 upsets (I like being reminded of the Syracuse loss to Richmond). However, the way we lost does make it worse.
I'm trying to keep proper perspective. Last night's loss was terrible in a lot of ways, but let's not go overboard.
It's going to be a long off-season, and I hope everyone comes back, but even with just Austin and Chris as seniors, the supporting cast coming back, and a new cast of strong freshmen, we will be a team to be reckoned with again next season, and youth and depth will no longer be excuses.
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