Teams

Georgetown:
The Hoyas lost their fourth home game of the season, but their performance was much improved. They played hard and fought the whole time. After a high scoring first half, the Hoyas stepped up the intensity defensively in the second. Unfortunately, they didn’t get the scores they needed in crunch time. Georgetown has looked much better in the past three games, but the team has nothing to show for it other than a win over South Florida and two more tough losses.

Marquette:
The Golden Eagles are a very good team. They have a lot of players who will make consistently make open three pointers, and a few who consistently make contested ones. Add in their fast-paced game, and they are a very difficult team to defend.

Players

Georgetown:
Austin Freeman returned to form, going 7-10 from the field, including a couple of first half three pointers that helped the Hoyas stop an early Marquette run. He is still struggling from the free throw line, as he missed a chance to complete a three point play late in the second half with the Hoyas up one, and then Marquette hit a three to give them back the lead which they would never relinquish.

Marquette:
Wesley Matthews was killing the Hoyas in the first half. He was 7-11 including 4-6 from downtown in the first twenty minutes. He cooled down a bit in the second half, but still scored some points on the inside. He ended with a game-high 23 points.

Fans

The student sections were both full, but again you got the feeling as if there was more nervous cheering than excited cheering. There were a fair number of Marquette fans in the upper deck, and while the student section did a good job of drowning them out for the most part, as the final seconds ticked off the clock they were the only ones making any noise.

Referees

The refereeing was truly poor. You could tell it was not going to be a good game for the guys in striped shirts when they whistled Nikita Mescheriakov with three fouls in the first four minutes, two of them on touch fouls that had no impact on the play. Perhaps the culmination of incompetence happened with six minutes left in the game. Marquette was whistled for an over the back call, sending the Hoyas to the line to shoot one-and-one. Greg Monroe missed the front end, and DaJuan Summers was subsequently whistled for his fourth foul. The foul call, while questionable, was not the problem. The real issue was that it was in fact Summers who was fouled on the over the back call. That means Summers would have shot the free throws instead of Monroe, which means a better shooter would have been at the line and even a miss would almost assuredly not gotten Summers his fourth foul.

Number of the Game

12: Turnovers for the Hoyas. A problem all season has been Georgetown’s tendency to turn the ball over. The Hoyas only had 12 in this game, which is not outstanding, but the team seemed to take care of the ball better in this game.

1984

At halftime, Georgetown celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Championship team. Eight of the 12 players from that team were present, and Patrick Ewing sent a recorded message which was played on the big screen.