• Georgetown opened their Big East portion of the season with a 12 point win over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Austin Freeman paced the Hoyas with 13 points, and Jonathan Wallace added 11.
• Jeff Green returned to the Verizon Center to play his first game as a pro at the court he called home for three years. The Sonics fell to the Wizards 108-86.
• Allen Iverson also had an emotional game as the Nuggets hosted AI’s former team, the Philadelphia 76ers. Iverson scored 38 points on 56% shooting and dished out 8 assists to lead the Nuggets to a 109-96 victory.
• Brandon Bowman, class of 2006, left the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA’s Development League to join the Italian club Ignis Novara, located in the Piedmont region. In his first game yesterday, Brandon scored 21 points, shooting 60% from the field. Bowman will play for the Second Division Dragons for the remainder of the season.
• #1 North Carolina eked out an overtime victory in their ACC opener to remain perfect on the season and in doing so handed Clemson its first loss of the year. Clemson led by one with 5 seconds remaining in overtime, when Ty Lawson found Wayne Ellington beyond the three point arc. Ellington buried the jumper with .4 seconds remaining and sealed the victory.

2005-06 – Record: 10-2 (Conference 7-1)
Senior Class: Ryan Beal, Brandon Bowman, Ashanti Cook, Amadou Kilkenny-Diaw, Darrel Owens (Graduate Student)

The Georgetown Hoyas re-established themselves in the national spotlight of college basketball in 2005-06. The team played very well throughout the year coming up with excellent victories both home and away. The crowds at the Verizon Center continued to swell, and the student body came out with greater numbers than any point in school history. Georgetown advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament before falling to the eventual champion Florida Gators. The season was even more special for the seniors who had gone through a great deal of adversity during their college careers.
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Today is Brandon Bowman’s 23rd birthday. After the 2002-03 Georgetown season ended (the loss in the NIT Final to St. John’s at Madison Square Garden), I went into the locker room to try and console some of the players as well as to congratulate them on the completion of their season. I walked up to Brandon and extended my hand to him. He handed me his empty Gatorade bottle. I told him, “I’m offering to shake your hand, not take your trash.” He felt bad, shook his head and my hand. Throughout his career he got a bad rep for sort of being a head case, and even though my anecdote reinforces that belief, Hoya fans should be grateful since he really was a great player for the Hoyas, even if he did have some moments of interesting decision-making. So to paraphrase, ‘I come to praise Bowman, not to bury him.’
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