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.
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Georgetown:
Georgetown finally got off the schneid, winning for the first time in six games. It wasn’t the prettiest of games, but the team did enough to get the job done. They again had a slow start, but fought through it to take a nine point lead into the break. Georgetown then took over for the first part of the second half, extending the lead to 20. From then on, the Hoyas simply coasted, and perhaps let Rutgers get too close. But, for a team that had not had that leisure for most of last month, I think I can forgive them this once, as it was good to see Georgetown finally get a win.
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Finally, a win for Georgetown. Here is the audio from Coach Thompson’s happy press conference. There are two parts because of YouTube’s time restrictions.

“We need this guy over my left shoulder to be Jessie Sapp.” That’s what Coach Thompson said when asked about Jessie Sapp’s performance vs. Rutgers. Jessie’s numbers weren’t overwhelming; they never are. But just like what people expect from Jessie Sapp, the value of the contributions is much more significant than the numbers on a stat sheet.
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