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Continuing with the HoyaHoops.com Big East All-Conference awards, here are the All-Conference Teams and the Player and Coach of the Year awards as decided by ourselves.
| First Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Position | School | Player |
| C/F | Pittsburgh | DeJuan Blair |
| F | Pittsburgh | Sam Young |
| F | Louisville | Terrence Williams |
| G | Marquette | Jerel McNeal |
| G | Villanova | Scottie Reynolds |
We at HoyaHoops.com present our own Big East All-Conference awards. Here are this year’s picks for the best defensive, reserve, and rookie players of the Big East.
| All-Defensive Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Position | School | Player |
| C | Connecticut | Hasheem Thabeet |
| C/F | Georgetown | Greg Monroe |
| F | Louisville | Terrence Williams |
| G | Marquette | Jerel McNeal |
| G | Seton Hall | Paul Gause |
As a youngster, I wrote a fan letter to Reggie Williams during his senior season. I told him I was a big fan of his, and he was my favorite player, and I went to all the games. Then I asked him to please write me back. I don’t know if he ever got it, but he didn’t write me back. Anyway, I hope if he did ever read the letter that maybe it brightened up his day. I wonder if this season, anybody has written a letter to Jessie Sapp. It’s his final home game tomorrow, and I envisioned a fan letter to look something like this.
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The loss to Pittsburgh was a lot of things to Hoya fans – disappointing, frustrating, embarrassing, you name it. But apart from the poor execution on offense and the failure to secure defensive rebounds, there was something even more upsetting at Verizon Center on Saturday afternoon – the behavior of a lot of the fans in the GU student section. Fans are supposed to give the opponents a hard time – that can be a big factor in a home-court advantage. Booing, screaming, ridiculing, and distracting are all part of what good fans can try to do to disrupt the other team. But there were a bunch of students near the tunnel leading to the Pitt locker room that were waving the middle finger and cursing at Jamie Dixon and the Panther players. That is not acceptable.
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So I guess I wasn’t paying too much attention. Maybe I was too focused on the Memphis game, I don’t know, but I completely forgot that Roy Hibbert and the Pacers were coming to the Verizon Center to play the Wizards last night. I realized it yesterday morning, and without a press pass, I decided I would fork over the $20 to see the game from the stands.
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What’s wrong with everybody? It seems like everybody always complains about Georgetown and Maryland not playing. Whether in College Park or DC, in the Terrapin Club or the Hoya Hoop Club, regional or national, biased or indifferent, everybody always talks about how this is a game that should be played every year. Why?
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After the Maryland game on Sunday, all of the parks in Walt Disney World were pretty close to closing time, so I had dinner and went to bed early, tired from a long, wet day at the Animal Kingdom and the Wide World of Sports Complex. I must have had a dream that Maryland had won, because I woke up in the middle of the night and threw up.
I was kinda nauseous all day, but a kinda icky day in Disney World is better than a completely healthy day anywhere else. And a kinda icky day in Disney World after the Hoyas destroy the Terps is better than a completely healthy day in Disney World after a different result.
I’m back from Orlando today, and I’m gonna stay in bed to fully recover, but hopefully I can get some more Old Spice Classic material for those of you who couldn’t make the trip to the Happiest Place on Earth.
(Oh, and while I really can’t remember my dream from Sunday night, Godwin Owinje definitely played a role. Weird, huh?)
If you live in the DC Metro area (which for the purposes of this article means from Baltimore, MD to Hampton, VA) and you don’t like the Washington Redskins, sports coverage must be very annoying. The Skins are the one item on the local sports scene that trumps all others 100% of the time. Recently, mid-week Redskins news was seen as of equal importance to the Wizards firing Eddie Jordan. The Maryland Terrapins are the Washington Redskins of DC college basketball.
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I don’t know about you, but I take my sports very seriously. I watch every Hoya game with extreme intensity, living and dying with each possession. It makes the wins so much more satisfying, but the loses all the more devastating. And while there may be no joy that can match the triumphs, there also can be little solace after a heart-breaking loss. And, last season’s end was just that.
When the Hoyas were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, it was a horrible feeling. That team had so much potential, and to see them fall short was a bitter pill to swallow. But, perhaps even worse than the actual loss was the realization that the season was over. For the next six months, this would be the taste in my mouth. This would be the lasting memory of Georgetown basketball until the next season.
So the first game of the 2008-09 season starts in less than a month, and I’m still not 100% set on my gameday schedule. I don’t know if I’ll be taking the metro to Chinatown or if I’ll be driving. If I drive, I don’t know where I’ll park. I don’t know if I should go to McDonough to pick up my press pass or if I’m just supposed to get it at Verizon Center on November 17. But while I’m not completely set on my plan for the whole season, I am all prepared for the three games of the Old Spice Classic.
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