Finally some good news for the Hoyas – January is over. Today is February 2nd, and let’s hope unlike that movie with Bill Murray, the same things don’t keep happening to the Hoyas. Sometimes it helps to talk things out when going through a difficult time. January was absolutely miserable for the Hoyas. Georgetown started Big East play by beating Connecticut on the road…on December 29. In January, the team lost by 16 at home to Pitt, snapping the 29-game winning streak at Verizon Center. Two days later, they lost at Notre Dame. They did demolish Syracuse in the one bright spot of January, but they followed their modest two game winning streak with consecutive losses to Duke (ugh), West Virginia (blah), Seton Hall (yuck), Cincinnati (yeesh), and Marquette (whoa). The five losses in a row caused the Hoyas to finish 2-7 in January, including two losses to Tuesday teams.

February starts a new month, and a new slate in some ways. The tabula is not completely rasa, since being three games under .500 is still a reality, but now with two home games in a row, maybe the Hoyas can shake off their losing ways and start crawling back into relevance in the Big East. There is a slight chance that the recent struggles could prove valuable for the Hoyas over the next weeks, but it’s unlikely. The most probable scenario is that the Hoyas know the huge hole they have dug for themselves, and recognize they need to work a lot harder than they what should have been necessary to prove their worth to the NCAA selection committee. At any rate, there is no looking back for Georgetown. There are no second chances anymore, and if the Hoyas are going to prove that January is the anomaly and not December, this will be the month to do it.