Now that the college basketball season is officially over and everybody is looking forward to next season, it’s time to address a potential problem of summer vacation. Fortunately this isn’t a problem that has hurt the Hoyas very recently, but over the past decade or so it has been something that Georgetown has had serious trouble dealing with - transfers.
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The 2008 season is over. Happy New Year! Now everybody can start planning for the 2008-09 season. For the Hoyas, there will be a lot of changes from ‘08. It will be very strange not hearing “Jonathan Wallace” announced in the Georgetown starting line-up and not seeing Big Roy demanding the ball in the post, but such is life in college basketball.
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Last night, Patrick Ewing, Jr. performed in the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) 20th Annual State Farm Slam Dunk Contest, and he did just about as good as anyone could ask. He didn’t rival Vince Carter, or Michael and Dominique, but he had a perfect outing.
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In the fall of 1986, four freshmen basketball players began their careers at Georgetown University. That was an important time in Georgetown Basketball history. The previous March, four long-time Hoyas had ended their historic careers: Ralph Dalton, David Wingate, Michael Jackson, and Horace Broadnax had all been major contributors on the NCAA National Championship team two years earlier. Two of those players left school among the all-time greats - Wingate ended his career as the third all-time leading scorer, and Jackson was Georgetown’s all-time leader in assists after his four seasons. There was a cloud of doubt at the start of the 1986-87 season, and in many ways the future of Georgetown Basketball depended on those four freshmen.
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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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So, Duke lost in round 2 of the NCAA Tournament. Honestly, they were lucky to get that far. Duke was the second best team in the ACC during the regular season, and they lost in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. They were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by the 5th best team in the Big East. But my point is not to praise the Big East. My point is not to compare the Big East to the ACC, even though West Virginia beat Duke, Villanova (#12 seed, 8th during Big East regular season) beat Clemson (#5 seed, 3rd during ACC season), and Syracuse (#9 in the Big East) beat Maryland (#6 in the ACC) in the NIT. My point is to criticize the American College Basketball Media for not seeing the reality of the situation.
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I’m sorry this is so late, but I have been pretty upset and tired from my road trip to Raleigh. I’ll fill you in on some of the details of that trip later on, but in the meantime, here are my postgame thoughts.

Teams

Georgetown:
Georgetown played as good of a game as they’ve put together this season, and unfortunately, they ended up on the losing end. There were probably too many unforced turnovers, too many offensive fouls, and too little rebounding at the beginning of the second half, but other than that, there was not too much to complain about on the Hoyas’ end.
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The Hoyas did not lose to Davidson because of the officiating. The frustrating blown lead was not the referees’ fault. But it was the refs’ fault that Roy Hibbert was not allowed to participate. Hibbert was abused by the refs; there is no other way to put it. Roy’s teammates should have managed without him, as they had done a number of times during the season, but a fairly officiated game would have sent the Hoyas to their third straight Sweet Sixteen. It’s not an excuse. It’s a fact.
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We tend to look to the past for guidance; historians tell us that to know the future we must understand the past, and everyone knows that history repeats itself. These are good principles to live by if you’re planning to invade Russia in the winter or if you’re trying to breakdown the NCAA Tournament.
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Teams

Georgetown:
The Hoyas used their smothering defense and efficient offense for a relatively easy win over their neighbors to the north. They held UMBC to only 32% from the field, while shooting 51% themselves. This has been the recipe for success for the Hoyas, and if they do it again, another Sweet Sixteen banner will hang from McDonough.
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