Articles by Kevin Wessel

Horace Broadnax is no stranger to joining a great basketball team. As a freshman at Georgetown in 1982, he played on the Patrick Ewing-led Hoyas that were coming off a title game appearance.

To accommodate ESPN’s coverage, Georgetown will play host to Temple for a 4 p.m. tip-off. Tuesday afternoon is primetime for class meetings, and it is unclear how many students will be able to make it to the arena.

NEW ORLEANS — Georgetown’s season opener against Tulane was hyped as the homecoming of Greg Monroe, and the sophomore center more than lived up to his star billing. Yet it was the Hoyas other two post players — second-year forwards Julian Vaughn and Henry Sims — that showed the biggest improvement in their new roles.

Georgetown’s season opener at Tulane tonight has been almost as highly anticipated on campus as the end of midterms and Thanksgiving break combined.

Whether or not the Hoyas can significantly improve on last year’s 16-15 record depends almost as much on the emerging roles filled by the other two players on the floor.

Georgetown was picked to finish fifth in the 16-team Big East in the conference’s preseason coaches poll, and sophomore center Greg Monroe was named to the preseason all-Big East first team.

With just under a month to go before the Hoyas’ season opener, expectations are again riding high in McDonough Gymnasium.

Georgetown released its basketball schedule yesterday, and a game against Duke highlights the 16-game home slate. Nineteen of the Hoyas’ 29 games will be against opponents that made the NCAA tournament last season.

Updated at 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2

An NCAA ruling has placed Georgetown athletics on probation following an investigation that revealed that 26 baseball players received excess work-study payments over the course of seven years.

Georgetown beat Bryant University 6-0 on Friday and Georgia Southern 3-0 on Sunday in the 2009 D.C. Invitational at American University. The Hoyas have started their season 3-0 with three straight shutouts.