With one more league win now than it had all of last season, Georgetown lives to fight another day for a Big East tournament berth.

The Hoyas (14-12, 4-9) opened up an eight-point lead in the first half and never looked back, using their advantage in the paint to down South Florida 66-56 Saturday afternoon in McDonough Gymnasium.

Georgetown could not stop Allie Quigley all night. The DePaul senior scored the first seven points of the game on her way to a season-high 36 points and missed just six of her 21 shots. But for all her offense, it was just one steal by the guard that killed the Hoyas’ comeback hopes.

Past the “Academy of the Holy Cross” sign, down a curving road, in a big building, up a flight of stairs and through a narrow hallway is a tiny basketball court. The court is where Monica McNutt did some big things.

In recent years, the only real question mark surrounding Connecticut has been at the end of, “So, how many did they win by?”

Trailing by 12 points after starting the second half 0-for-8 from the field, Georgetown needed something to get back on track.

Enter junior guard Karee Houlette.

The junior college transfer came off the bench to score eight points in 10 minutes and stoked the Hoyas’ (13-9, 3-6 Big East) offense in a 61-60 win over the Red Storm (12-10, 3-6) Wednesday night in McDonough Gymnasium.

While the Big East men’s basketball season has been rife with parity and upsets, the Big East women’s basketball season has been anything but — entering Saturday, the top five teams were a combined 32-4 while the bottom five were a miserable 6-31.

Hours after returning from junior guard Erin Monfre’s mother’s funeral, Marquette had itself a basketball game to play.

The Hoyas faced an uphill battle when they took on the Mountaineers, but eight minutes into the first half, Georgetown held a tenuous 12-11 lead and had kept pace with West Virginia’s torrid 60-percent shooting.

With the clock approaching one minute to play Tuesday night in McDonough Gymnasium, Georgetown’s hope of winning its first Big East game of the year looked bleak. Seton Hall held their largest lead of the night at three points, the Hoyas had gone cold from the field, and senior forward and leading scorer Kieraah Marlow had fouled out of the game.

If all you did was listen to the tone of the postgame press conferences, you’d have thought the outcome was entirely different.