Well, folks, it’s that time of year again. Time to dust off that gray jersey that has been hanging forgotten in the corner of your closet for the past seven months. Time to load up your Smart Trip card in preparation for Metro rides on the Red Line. Time to get ready for another season of Georgetown basketball.

At midnight tonight, the 2010-11 Georgetown Hoyas will practice together for the first time. But unlike in the past, when I have been ambivalent, excited, or wary, this year, Midnight Madness describes my exact emotion. I am mad.

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At half time of one of the Big East Tournament evening games, ESPN went back to the studio with Reece Davis, Hubert Davis, and Digger Phelps for highlights of some other games. One of these games was the barn-burner between Houston and Memphis. The Cougars’ Aubrey Coleman made a basket to put his side up one with under five seconds to go. Willie Kemp of Memphis then took the inbound pass and sped down the court, trying to beat the buzzer for a win. And that’s when things got interesting.
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I woke up this morning thinking to myself, “Now that the Lakers have won the NBA Championship – and Patrick Ewing and the Magic have not – it looks like no Hoya will end up a league champion this year.”

Then I thought, “Wait a second, that’s not true. There’s still the European leagues.” And sure enough, GUHoyas posted yesterday that no less than three Georgetown players would be competing in the German Basketball Bundesliga’s championship game last night.
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Remember that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine and Jerry are talking about what Jerry likes about women? Elaine suggests that she always thought he was a ‘leg man.’ Jerry dismisses that notion by responding with, “Why would I be a leg man? I don’t need legs. I have legs!” I feel the same way when people talk about conference loyalty.
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With Louisville taking home the crown on Saturday, the Big East has finished its 30th conference tournament. Just as we did for this season’s conference awards, we at Hoya Hoops are going to be naming our all-time Big East Tournament teams and individual awards. And here they are:

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Continuing with the HoyaHoops.com Big East All-Conference awards, here are the All-Conference Teams and the Player and Coach of the Year awards as decided by ourselves.

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We at HoyaHoops.com present our own Big East All-Conference awards. Here are this year’s picks for the best defensive, reserve, and rookie players of the Big East.

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As a youngster, I wrote a fan letter to Reggie Williams during his senior season. I told him I was a big fan of his, and he was my favorite player, and I went to all the games. Then I asked him to please write me back. I don’t know if he ever got it, but he didn’t write me back. Anyway, I hope if he did ever read the letter that maybe it brightened up his day. I wonder if this season, anybody has written a letter to Jessie Sapp. It’s his final home game tomorrow, and I envisioned a fan letter to look something like this.
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The loss to Pittsburgh was a lot of things to Hoya fans – disappointing, frustrating, embarrassing, you name it. But apart from the poor execution on offense and the failure to secure defensive rebounds, there was something even more upsetting at Verizon Center on Saturday afternoon – the behavior of a lot of the fans in the GU student section. Fans are supposed to give the opponents a hard time – that can be a big factor in a home-court advantage. Booing, screaming, ridiculing, and distracting are all part of what good fans can try to do to disrupt the other team. But there were a bunch of students near the tunnel leading to the Pitt locker room that were waving the middle finger and cursing at Jamie Dixon and the Panther players. That is not acceptable.
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So I guess I wasn’t paying too much attention. Maybe I was too focused on the Memphis game, I don’t know, but I completely forgot that Roy Hibbert and the Pacers were coming to the Verizon Center to play the Wizards last night. I realized it yesterday morning, and without a press pass, I decided I would fork over the $20 to see the game from the stands.
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