All-star games are a lot of fun to watch. You get to see lots of dunks, flashy plays, and end-to-end action. Anyone who watched the McDonald’s All-American game last night could clearly see the athleticism of all the participants. What was harder to decipher was the type of player Greg Monroe might be.
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• All four of the incoming freshmen who had previously given verbal commitments to attend Georgetown signed their letters of intent. Headlining the class is Greg Monroe, and he will be joined by Henry Sims, Chris Braswell and Jason Clark.
• 4 teams in the AP Top 25 were defeated over the weekend: #18 Arkansas lost to Providence on Friday, the following night #17 Arizona and #20 Stanford suffered defeats to Virginia and Siena, respectively, and New Orleans knocked off #21 North Carolina State last night.

This past weekend, amidst the silly celebrations for the beginning of this year’s basketball season, we learned something significant about the program. No, not that the players are hungry to win. Not that Jeff Green was good but is now in the NBA. Not that Roy Hibbert had a good off-season. The most telling sign about the future of Georgetown basketball was not about the current team at all. It was about Greg Monroe.
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• Georgetown kicked off its 2007-2008 season with the Midnight Madness festivities on Friday night in front of a raucous crown at McDonough Gymnasium and a national audience on ESPNU. The Hoyas “practiced” for the first time and unveiled the 2007 Final Four banner along with Jeff Green’s Seattle SuperSonics jersey.
• Greg Monroe, a 6′10 senior from Helen Cox High School in Louisiana, gave a verbal commitment to attend Georgetown. Listed as the number one recruit by Rivals.com, his unofficial pledge with the Hoyas is a statement of the rising status of the program.