Basketball is a game of ratios. Now, I know what you are thinking. “Ratios? Like 3:2? You never see that in a box score.” Well, true. But in mathematics, we define a ratio to be anything of the form x/y, where x and y are integers. And while we don’t usually see ratios in this form, they are all over the box score: 3-33 from the field in the second half. 39-74 from the free throw line. 5-20 from beyond the arc. These are all ratios, and most of the time they materialize themselves as percentages. However, there is one time when we do look at the numbers in the traditional form. And that is the assist-to-turnover ratio.
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Teams

GU:
The Hoyas did not have their best game on Saturday, but they toughed it out and got the win. Playing without Jessie Sapp, who has been the team’s MVP so far this season, definitely hurt the Hoyas, and it took them a while to get into a rhythm.

The perimeter defense was shaky in the first half, but that got rectified at halftime, and the bigger concern is the team’s free throw shooting. While going 9-22 from the line on Saturday was pretty bad, the real problem is that the Hoyas are not doing much better on the season. In Georgetown’s first five games, they’ve gone 39 of 74 from the line - 52.7%.
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Teams

GU:
A poor showing for Georgetown by their own high standards. Perhaps it was a result of the win earlier in the week against Old Dominion, or perhaps in anticipation for the mid week game against Alabama in the Big East/SEC Invitational, but the Hoyas looked sloppy. The first half was particularly poor, but they gritted it out in the second half for the victory. I think the injury of Jessie Sapp, who played limited minutes thanks to a knee to the head on the first possession of the game, may have had an impact on the game. But, a win is a win, and hopefully Georgetown can turn it around by this Wednesday.
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Saturday at the Verizon Center, Georgetown defeated a determined and persistent Fairfield University side for the Hoyas’ fifth straight win to start the season.
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Fairfield: 49, Georgetown: 61

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Johnny here at the Verizon Center, where the Georgetown Hoyas are looking to get their 5th win in as many games to start off the 2007-08 season. Their opponent tonight is the Fairfield Stags, who are 2-4 this season.

We’re just about 45 minutes fro tip-off and the stands here are mostly empty, save for the two student sections where the Hoya faithful keep piling in.

And here are your starting lineups:
For the Hoyas, it’s the usual 5 - Wallace, Summers, Sapp, Ewing, and Hibbert.
For the Stags, they’ll be going with Han, Hawkins, Edney, Anthony Johnson, and Nero.

Keep your in-game thoughts coming in the comments.

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Last game, we asked who would be the leading scorer and with how many points. The real leading scorer was Hibbert with 14 points. Again, everyone overshot the correct answer, leaving us the closest once again with our guess of Hibbert with 17. I guess that is why we are the professionals. See if you guys can beat us this time.

The Hoyas did not do so well from the free throw line in the past two games. And our opponent on Saturday is Fairfield University, one of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the US. So our question for this game, in the spirit of Jesuit brotherhood, is about fouls.

What will the Hoyas’ free throw percentage be and how many total free throws will the Boys in Gray shoot?

We have a suspicion that the Hoyas have been working a lot on that department, so we are gonna say the Hoyas will shoot 88% with 17 shots. (That’s 15 for 17 from the line).

Your guess? Post it.