Over the Hilltop

Georgetown opens Big East play Thursday evening at 8 pm EST when it hosts St. John’s.  The game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 (Bill Raftery as the color guy!) and can be heard on AM 570.
St. John’s and Georgetown go back a ways, but most recently the Red Storm added the cherry to the [...]

Thursday’s game against St. John’s is the Hoyas’ Big East opener, making this an appropriate time for a conference preview, with snapshots of each team and a (soon to be foolish) prediction of finish:

Syracuse (13-0, 1-0, #5) — it hurts to admit, but the Orange(men) have looked very good since their exhibition lost to LeMoyne [...]

Chris Wright scored a career-high 34 points to go with 6 rebounds, 4 assists, and 6 steals to lead Georgetown passed visiting Harvard 86-70 at the Verizon Center Wednesday.  Greg Monroe scored 16 points and hauled in 16 rebounds, and added 4 steals and 5 blocks, while Austin Freeman scored 21 points to round out [...]

Three tidbits of news pre-holiday:

The Hoyas are ranked #14 AP/#13 ESPN, down a few slots from #11 last week.

Junior forward Nikita Mescheriakov is transferring.  Apparently he wants more playing time.  Surely he could have gotten some run at Yates?  Okay, enough kicking guys on their way out the door.  That’s seven transfers in the JTIII [...]

Georgetown sleep-walked through the first 32 minutes of action against Old Dominion Saturday, waking up too late to make a game of it and suffering its first loss of the season, 61-57.
The game was not as close as it appeared–the Monarchs led most of the way by eight to twelve points, and only a Hoya [...]

Georgetown dusts off the cobwebs from a one-week break Saturday evening when it hosts Old Dominion at McDonough Arena.  You can watch the game on MASN or listen on ESPN 980.

Old Dominion is experienced–returning all of its key players from last season’s 25-win team–and under the savvy leadership of Coach Blaine Taylor, who has won [...]

Monday pollday brings a #11 ranking for Georgetown in both polls.  That’s the highest slot this season, largely thanks to losses by those ahead.  You might already know the number 11 from the amps in This is Spinal Tap, former NY Giants great Phil Simms’s jersey, and the number of points on the maple leaf [...]

Julian Vaughn scored a career-high 18 points to lead five Hoyas in double digits as Georgetown beat Washington 74-66 Saturday, in a game that was at first closer, then not as close as the final score suggests.  Both teams struggled with ball control and accuracy in the first half, with the Hoyas maintaining an early [...]

In honor of Saturday’s showdown in Anaheim, who ya got?

The Hoyas will try to sweep ace their second December exam Saturday at 2 pm EST when they face-off  against #16 Washington at the Wooden Classic in Anaheim, Calif.  You can catch the game on Fox Sports, or listen to Rich Chvotkin on 980 AM.
The Huskies are an unfamiliar opponent for the Hoyas–this is the [...]