In front of a sold-out Madison Square Garden, Providence’s senior point guard Kyron Cartwright was ready to seal a victory against the No. 2 team in the country following an astonishing 12-point comeback in the second half. Approaching a Big East tournament record of three straight overtime games, Cartwright launched[Read More…]
Although Monday marked the Hoyas’ final Big East contest at Capital One Arena for the season, the game had all the elements of previous games — a solid start, a halftime lead, a second-half run by the visitors and a one-possession finish. Like most of their previous games, the result[Read More…]
At Capital One Arena on Saturday, Senior Day proved to be a typical Hoyas-Friars matchup in the modern Big East: ugly, gritty, often rough to watch and, in the end, a loss for Georgetown. For the eighth consecutive matchup between the two programs, the Georgetown Hoyas (15-12, 5-11 Big East)[Read More…]
Hoya fans from the days of Hoya Paranoia will always remember the famed words from legendary head coach John Thompson Jr. after ending Syracuse’s 57-game winning streak on Feb. 12, 1980: “Manley Field House is officially closed.” In today’s Big East, closing Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse has quickly become a Georgetown[Read More…]
Four days after Groundhog Day, it felt just like the movie. End of regulation. Tie game with seconds remaining. Deja vu. Sophomore guard Jagan Mosely waited on the Friars logo at midcourt for a screen from junior center Jessie Govan. Mosely attacked right but could not turn the corner, forcing[Read More…]
It was an overcast Friday morning Jan. 25, and Georgetown Head Coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) sauntered through the Thompson Athletic Center alongside freshman forward Jamorko Pickett. Pickett, in his first media appearance, sat down next to Ewing at the roundtable with a handful of reporters. Ewing, on the heels[Read More…]
The Georgetown Hoyas men’s basketball team suffered a heartbreaking 74-73 loss at the hands of the DePaul Blue Demons on Wednesday night. Even though Georgetown came back from a 14-point deficit in the second half to take the lead, DePaul did not waver as junior guard Eli Cain hit a game-winning jumper[Read More…]
Up five points with 15 seconds to go in the first overtime, St. John’s — still searching for its first Big East win — had over a 90 percent probability of pulling out a victory, according to ESPN. Georgetown junior forward Marcus Derrickson missed a deep three from the wing,[Read More…]
Following his team’s more than 20-point loss to Villanova on Jan. 10, Xavier Head Coach Chris Mack had nothing but praise for one of the nation’s top-floor generals, Villanova’s junior point guard Jalen Brunson. “If you peel his face off, it probably would have wires coming out of it,” Mack[Read More…]
It was just like old times: Georgetown men’s basketball Head Coach Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) and Hall of Famer Chris Mullin, St. John’s men’s basketball head coach, faced off in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday in a rematch of the 1985 Big East Championship. When it came down to the[Read More…]
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