• According to Fox Sports, Vernon Macklin has decided where he wants to transfer to: the University of Florida. He will have to sit out next year and then will have two years of eligibility for the Gators.
• The Utah Jazz defeated the Houston Rockets 113-91 on Friday, sending Dikembe Mutombo home for the summer. Dikembe was the last Hoya still in the NBA playoffs after the Lakers sent Allen Iverson and the Nuggets packing last week.

The Phoenix Suns defeated the Golden State Warriors 122-116 Monday night, which means that the Denver Nuggets secure a playoff berth in the West. It takes the pressure off of Denver, who are still mathematically alive for a seventh seed. They say that when you are playing well, things go your way, and the Nuggets are starting to click at the exact right time. And perhaps no one in the NBA is playing as well as Allen Iverson.
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Allen Iverson and the Denver Nuggets need to win all the games they can in order to make the NBA playoffs. They’re in a battle with the Golden State Warriors for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western conference, and time is running out. Heading into their game against the Seattle SuperSonics last night, they had beaten the Sonics in all three meetings, the last of which being the 168-116 blowout less than a month ago. This time, however, Jeff Green didn’t want to go down without a fight.
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• The Georgetown Hoyas played in the Big East Tournament this past weekend, beating Villanova and West Virginia, but falling to the Pittsburgh Panthers in the Championship game. It was the first loss Georgetown has ever suffered in the tournament after earning a #1 seed.
• Despite the loss, Georgetown earned itself a #2 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament and will face #15-seed UMBC on Friday in Raleigh, NC.
• Three other local schools - George Mason, American, and Mount Saint Mary’s - also made the tournament and are preparing for their opening round matches this week.
• As in the first game of the season, Jeff Green and the Seattle Supersonics traveled to Denver to take on Allen Iverson’s Nuggets yesterday. The Nuggets destroyed the Sonics, 168-116, setting a franchise record for points in regulation. Iverson had 24 points on 8-12 shooting from the field and 8-8 from the stripe. Jeff Green earned himself 8 points and 4 assists, but it wasn’t enough to stop the hot Nuggets who had eight players in double figures.

• The Georgetown Hoyas improved to 6-1 in Big East play as they held off the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown, 58-57. Jessie Sapp had 15 points, including the game winning three, and Roy Hibbert added 12 points and 10 rebounds.
• Allen Iverson was voted a starter to the West All-Star Team. It will be Iverson’s eighth start, his first in the Western Conference. Teammate Carmelo Anthony will also be starting for the West.
• Matt Causey continued his stellar play for Georgia Tech, helping the Yellow Jackets beat the UVA Cavaliers 92-82 in overtime. Causey led all scorers with 18 points, including a back-breaking three pointer that put the Rambling Wreck up by seven in the extra session.

• Georgetown opened their Big East portion of the season with a 12 point win over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Austin Freeman paced the Hoyas with 13 points, and Jonathan Wallace added 11.
• Jeff Green returned to the Verizon Center to play his first game as a pro at the court he called home for three years. The Sonics fell to the Wizards 108-86.
• Allen Iverson also had an emotional game as the Nuggets hosted AI’s former team, the Philadelphia 76ers. Iverson scored 38 points on 56% shooting and dished out 8 assists to lead the Nuggets to a 109-96 victory.
• Brandon Bowman, class of 2006, left the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA’s Development League to join the Italian club Ignis Novara, located in the Piedmont region. In his first game yesterday, Brandon scored 21 points, shooting 60% from the field. Bowman will play for the Second Division Dragons for the remainder of the season.
• #1 North Carolina eked out an overtime victory in their ACC opener to remain perfect on the season and in doing so handed Clemson its first loss of the year. Clemson led by one with 5 seconds remaining in overtime, when Ty Lawson found Wayne Ellington beyond the three point arc. Ellington buried the jumper with .4 seconds remaining and sealed the victory.

Georgetown used to be criticized a lot for having an easy non-conference schedule, but there were always important non-conference opponents that provided classic match-ups for the Hoyas.
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On this day, 13 years ago, the Hoyas came up with one of their most enjoyable pre-conference schedule wins with an 83-80 overtime win against Memphis. The victory was a part of an 11 game winning streak for Georgetown, and it marked the first NCAA basketball game to be played in Toronto.
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• The Georgetown Hoyas won over the weekend, beating the Jacksonville Dolphins 87-55. Austin Freeman had 15 points and DaJuan Summers and Chris Wright each added 14 to give the Hoyas their seventh straight win to start the season.
• The Maryland Terrapins lost their ACC season-opener to Boston College, 81-78. Greivis Vasquez was called for a foul with 10:30 left in the game, but then compounded his mistake by being whistled for a technical, and fouled out of the game.
• Allen Iverson had a great week with the Nuggets, as he averaged 36.3 points, 10 assists, and 2.7 steals over the course of three games, shooting right around 60% from the field. The day after putting up 51 against the Lakers, he had an MVP-caliber performance, racking up 35 points, 12 assists, and 6 steals against the Dallas Mavericks. It would seem that Allen is a lock for this week’s NBA Player of the Week from the Western Conference.
• Nat Burton also had an amazing week in the CBA as his Albany Patroons won three straight. On Wednesday, he scored 29 points on 9 of 11 shooting against the Atlanta Krunk, and then on Friday, he notched up 27 more, shooting 11 for 12 from the field against the East Kentucky Miners.

After our interview with Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson, we got to thinking about other top Big East Tandems in the history of the NBA. We came up with a list of 10 Dynamic Duos. There are many more Big East pairs than this, but we decided this was a pretty good sample.
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