Only one week after announcing his retirement, Allen Iverson has come to a one-year agreement with his first professional team, the Philadelphia 76ers.

We’ll have more info later on, but for now, here’s the 76ers press release: Sixers agree to terms with Allen Iverson

• The Hoyas played their second and last scrimmage of the preseason this weekend, taking on the Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg. While the scrimmage was closed to the public, there are some reports that Georgetown lost on Saturday. Scrimmages are behind us now, though, as the first game of the season takes place Friday night at Tulane.
• As of this weekend, Allen Iverson has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the Memphis Grizzlies to deal with a personal matter. The Grizzlies confirm that it is a family matter and has nothing to do with Allen’s displeasure with his playing time.
• Roy Hibbert returned to the Verizon Center on Friday to take on the Washington Wizards. The Pacers won easily, and Roy had his third-straight double-double putting up 12 and 11 off of 5-9 shooting.

Last week, the NBA season got underway, and here’s how your Hoyas have been faring so far:

• Allen Iverson has yet to play for the Memphis Grizzlies as he injured his hamstring before his new team’s season got started. He did however return to practice this weekend, and he will likely make his Memphis debut tonight.
• Jeff Green has gotten off to a great start with the Thunder as he’s averaging just shy of 20 points in his first three games. Last night, Oklahoma City dropped its first game of the season, but Jeff earned a double-double in the losing effort with 19 and 11.
• Roy Hibbert and the Indiana Pacers are off to an 0-2 start to the 2009-10 season, but the good news is that Roy has been getting some more minutes and he’s been managing his foul trouble situation a bit better than he had in his rookie season. We’ll have to see if he can keep that up, because the more minutes Roy can play, the more of an impact he’ll have. And more good news – the Pacers have picked up the contract option on Roy for the rest of the season.
• DaJuan Summers has yet to see any action with the Pistons so far, as Detroit has gotten off to a 1-2 start. He hasn’t dressed for the first three games, but hopefully his effort in practice will help him break in to the game day roster.

• Michigan State beat Connecticut in the first game of the Final Four. With the entire city of Detroit behind them, the Spartans upset the Huskies, 82-73, to advance to their first championship game since they won it in 2000.
• In the other semifinal, North Carolina defeated Villanova 83-69. They’re set to face Michigan State in the Championship game tonight on CBS with tipoff scheduled for 9:21.
• Allen Iverson came back to play for Detroit after sitting out a month with a back injury. But apparently, he still wasn’t healthy enough, and Detroit announced that he would sit out the rest of the season.
• Jeff Green and the Oklahoma City Thunder traveled to Indianapolis yesterday to play Roy Hibbert and the Pacers. Roy had 17 points and 8 rebounds for the winning campaign, while Jeff had 11 points in the loss.

Just a quick reminder that we’ve reached the NBA’s All-Star Weekend, and plenty of Hoyas are going to be in on the festivities.

• Tonight at 9:00, Jeff Green and Thunder teammate Kevin Durant will be playing on the Sophomore team in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge. The game will be shown nationally on TNT.
• Also tonight at 9:00, Patrick Ewing, Jr. of the D-League’s Reno Bighorns will be participating in the Dunk Contest as a part of the 2009 Dream Factory. Patrick had a great showinglast year at the college Dunk Contest during Final Four weekend as he came away with second place.
• Allen Iverson will be participating in the NBA All-Star game at 8:00pm on Sunday night. This will be Iverson’s 10th All-Star game, and his 9th time as a starter. The only year he did not start was in 2007, his first year in the Western Conference, after being traded to Denver, but he did not play at all in that game due to injury.

There hasn’t been a Georgetown-Syracuse game played in the Carrier Dome with the stakes this high for a long time. It is possible that this meeting has the most riding on it of all the regular season games ever played at the Carrier Dome in this rivalry. A loss for either team could easily result in an NIT appearance. Both teams will be desperate to avoid such a fate. With that in mind, let’s take a look back at some of the more memorable Georgetown-Syracuse games played at Syracuse. If you have any memories of games that didn’t make our list, feel free to leave us a comment.
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• The Georgetown Hoyas defeated the Providence Friars on Saturday 82-75. The Hoyas relied heavily on their freshmen as Jason Clark and Henry Sims played big roles off the bench and Greg Monroe had a standout performance with 13 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals, and 2 blocks.
• #3 North Carolina lost again this weekend, this time falling to #4 Wake Forest 92-89. The highly touted Tar Heels had been the #1 pick in both polls for the first six weeks of the season but have now dropped conference games on consecutive Sundays.
• Allen Iverson made his debut return to Denver after being traded to the Detroit Pistons for Chauncey Billups. The Pistons won 93-90 thanks to 20 second half points from Iverson. Billups had the game high 30 points in the losing effort.
• Patrick Ewing Jr.’s team, the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League, have won five straight games over the past nine days. Over the course of the win streak, Ewing is averaging 16 points off of 50% shooting from the field to go with 9.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists.

• The Georgetown Hoyas defeated Mount St. Mary’s at Verizon Center on Saturday, extending their home unbeaten streak to 28. The Hoyas face Florida International tomorrow night at 7:30 in Chinatown.
• Four teams from the Top 10 in both polls lost on Saturday. #5 Texas lost at home to #19 Michigan State 67-63, and #9 Louisville lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers 70-64. In two Top 10 matchups, #7 Xavier fell to #6 Duke, 82-64, and #8 Gonzaga lost to #2 Connecticut in overtime, 88-83.
• Allen Iverson had his best game as a Piston as he scored a season high 38 points in their 120-114 loss to the Jazz in double overtime.
• Similarly, Roy Hibbert scored a career high 16 points in his double overtime loss to the Clippers. Big Roy started the game, played 23 minutes, shot 8-10 from the field, pulled down 8 rebounds, and had 5 blocked shots. And with all of that action on the court, he only picked up two personal fouls, which is a good sign for the foul-prone rookie.

• The Georgetown Hoyas return to the floor for the first game of the season. The team hosts the Jacksonville Dolphins at Verizon Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 PM.
• While the Hoyas are having their first game today, most of the college basketball world got underway this past week. None of the teams in the Top 25 lost, as the teams were a combined 27-0. Georgetown and Louisville were the only teams in the rankings not to play in the first week. Third-ranked Louisville play their season opener on Saturday.
• Allen Iverson is fitting right in with his new team. After losing efforts in his first two starts, Iverson and the Detroit Pistons had a successful tour through the Western Conference, finishing 3-1, which included handing the Los Angeles Lakers their first loss of the season. Iverson averaged 21.8 points and 7.3 assists on the road trip.

• The Hoyas had their annual Hoya Hoop Club open practice on Friday and then scrimmaged against George Mason on Saturday. The scrimmage was closed to the press, and none of us could make it to the open practice, so we have very little details. Check out the Hoya Talk board for any details on the open practice.
• Allen Iverson made his debut for the Detroit Pistons over the weekend falling both to the Nets in his first game as a Piston and to the Celtics in his first home game in Detroit.
• Roy Hibbert had a career highs Friday in the Pacers’ losing effort against Cleveland on Friday. He scored 11 points, pulled down nine rebounds, and had a pair of assists. Unfortunately, he also had a career high in personal fouls, fouling out of the game with nine minutes to play.
   
  Roy’s next game is tonight at 7:00 against former teammate Jeff Green and the Oklahoma City Thunder.