Sunday morning, as I was packing my bags and preparing to check out of my hotel room just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, I was planning out my upcoming week with my fiancee, Emily. “If we win today, then the next round is on Friday and Sunday in Detroit,” I was saying. “I’d have to miss work on Friday and then we’d have to see about flights for Sunday night or Monday.” Since Emily is a teacher at a Catholic elementary school, she had the week off for Easter and said, “Well if it works out, I’ll be able to come since I don’t have school until the following Tuesday.” I would still have to worry about making up the hours at work and about finding a hotel, a flight, and some means of transport to get to the games. But that was all still very far away.
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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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The Georgetown Hoyas squandered a 17 point second half lead as the #10 seed Davidson came from behind to end the season for the #2 seeded Hoyas. Stephen Curry had 25 in the second half to lead a furious comeback for the Wildcats, who advance to the Sweet 16.
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Hey everybody, Johnny here from Raleigh, checking in about an hour before tipoff at the RBC Center. Georgetown is set to face the Davidson Wildcats led by Sophomore phenom Stephen Curry. With a spot in the Sweet Sixteen on the line, be prepared for an intense matchup in a hectic atmosphere as the North Carolina locals will be here to root on Davidson like they did on Friday against Gonzaga. Also, in the second game of today’s session, UNC takes the court, so there will be a lot of anti-Georgetown fans here to boot.

In order to move on in the tournament, Georgetown will have to weather the crowd and the sharp shooter, and they’ll need to remain poised and focused as they have been all year.

I’ll check back with lineups and stats and whatever you ask for in the next few hours, so stay tuned.

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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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Before the UMBC game, we asked everybody how many points Baltimore native DaJuan Summers would score against his hometown team. He only scored six in the victory, and so Hoya Gray was the closest. Congrats.

Also before the UMBC game, Stephen Curry stole the show in Davidson’s victory over #7 seed Gonzaga. He had 40 points off of 8-10 shooting from three-point land, and on the season, he’s averaging over 25 points a game. Since Georgetown has the best defense in the country, here’s our question:

How many points will Curry score against the Hoyas?

We’re going to say he’ll grab 24. You can’t stop him from scoring, but if Georgetown makes him work for every hoop, then he’ll be tired by the end. The goal is to make him have more field goal attempts than points.