After grading all of your exams, we found that everybody who participated would have made the Dean’s List. But one of you, the winner of this year’s Exam Week Challenge, graduated Summa Cum Laude. Hoya Hoops reader DBeck got 100% on all of the exams, and earned himself a Hoya Hoops T-Shirt. Congratulations!

And for those of you who want to know the correct answers, we thought it fitting to give you DBeck’s thorough responses. Here they are:

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Today is Hoya great David Wingate’s birthday, and to celebrate, today’s exam is all about #40.

HIST-287 History of Basketball and Georgetown Society, 1980s

Before his time on the hilltop, David Wingate was a part of one of the greatest high school basketball teams in history. Speculated to go to Maryland, his decision to attend Georgetown was a huge pickup for the Hoyas who would soon win the 1984 National Championship.

1. Where did he go to high school?

In each of his four years at Georgetown, Wingate was the second-highest scorer on the team, his first three years trailing Patrick Ewing, and his senior year behind Reggie Williams. Nevertheless, upon his graduation, he was Georgetown’s 3rd all-time leading scorer.

2. In the 26 years since his departure, who are the only 3 players to surpass David Wingate’s total?

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It’s Exam Day 3 here at Hoya Hoops. If you haven’t taken our American Studes or Justice and Peace Studies exams, be sure to get your answers in by the end of the week.

Here’s today’s Statistics exam:

MATH 314 – Statistics and Extrema

There are 42 players in the Georgetown Basketball 1,000 point club. The first player reached the 1,000 point mark in 1950, and the most recent player did so last month. Today we have two questions about the Hoya 1,000 Point club.

1. Of the 42 players in the 1,000 point club, nine of them played under current coach John Thompson III. Name those nine players.

The second question concerns only the Top 25 members of the 1,000 Point Club. All of the players in Georgetown’s Top 25 in scoring come from the modern era of Georgetown Basketball (since John Thompson Jr. became head coach in 1972). Of those 25 players, there are four recurring jersey numbers – #22, #32, #33, and #34 (we’re not including Kevin Braswell’s brief stint at #3).

2. Name all of the players from the Top 25 of the 1,000 Point Club who share jersey numbers #22, #32, #33, and #34.

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With the new rankings announced yesterday, the Syracuse Orange found themselves ranked as the #1 team in the country. In our attempts to rain on their parade, today’s exam is all about Georgetown vs Syracuse.

JUPS 101 – Justice and Redemption

In the 1986-87 and 1987-88 seasons, Georgetown defeated Syracuse five times. The four Big East season matchups were so close that the Hoyas won by a combined total of six points. The 1987 game at the Capital Centre went to overtime, and Georgetown was victorious 83-81 thanks to a Hoya buzzer beater. The following season, at the Carrier Dome, Georgetown won 69-68 by some more last-second heroics.

1. Who were the two players who hit last-second shots to defeat Syracuse in the late 1980s?

In the history of the conference, Georgetown has played a top-seeded Syracuse four times in the Big East Tournament. In 2003, the Orange came out on top, defeating the 5th seeded Hoyas, but in the other three matchups, the underdog Hoyas were victorious.

2. In what three years did Georgetown defeat a #1-seeded Syracuse in the Big East Tournament?

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Georgetown’s next opponent is American University, with tipoff scheduled for Saturday at noon. With that in mind, we decided to start off exam week with some American Studies:

AMST 304 – Basketball in the District

In 2007, Georgetown and American played each other for the first time since the 1986-87 season. In the three recent meetings, the Hoyas have defeated the Eagles pretty handily, winning those games by an average score 26 points. In the old days, Georgetown and American used to play each other all the time. In fact, the two teams played each other every year from 1953 – 1986.

1. What happened in the 1986-87 meeting that convinced Hoya Coach John Thompson to stop playing American University?

Before the 2009-10 season, assistant coach Mike Brennan left the Eagles sideline to reunite with John Thompson III with whom he had worked at Princeton. Meanwhile longtime assistant coach Robert Burke parted ways with the Hoyas and joined coach Jeff Jones at American.

2. Where is Robert Burke now?

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I forgot to mention this in the last post, but here’s one more record broken at the Missouri game:

• Austin Freeman made six three-pointers against Missouri after connecting on the Hoya record-tying seven against UNC Asheville. No other Hoya has made six or more threes in back-to-back games, so Austin now holds the record for most made treys in two games with 13.

Georgetown came back from behind to beat the #9 Missouri Tigers in overtime last night, pushing their record to 7-0. But besides getting their first win against a ranked opponent, here are some other interesting facts that should cement the game into Hoya History.

• Austin Freeman, Jason Clark, and Chris Wright all reached the 20 point mark. This is only the second time under John Thompson III’s tenure that three players have scored 20 or more, the last being last year’s Duke game when it was Austin, Chris, and Greg Monroe scoring 20. The time before that was a Mike Sweetney, Kevin Braswell, and Wesley Wilson showing against Howard in ’01.
• Austin Freeman scored 31 points after scoring 32 against UNC Asheville. Last year, we showed you a list of 30-point performances up through the Harvard game, and it looks like we’ll have to update that list soon.

  Under Coach Thompson, there have been five games where a player has gone for 30, and now Austin is responsible for three of them.

  The last time a Hoya had back-to-back 30-point games was in February of 2003 when Mike Sweetney put up 38 in a double-overtime loss to Notre Dame and followed that up with 32 two days later against Syracuse.

  If you’re looking for the last time a Hoya put up 30 in back-to-back wins, you have to go all the way back to Allen Iverson‘s 37 against Villanova in the 1996 season finale and 38 against Miami in the Big East Tournament.

• Chris Wright earned his second career double-double dishing out 10 assists to go with his 21 points. He earned his first in Charleston when he had a career-high 12 assists against Coastal Carolina. Chris is averaging over seven assists a game so far this season.
• Jason Clark came up big in overtime scoring nine points on 3-3 from 3. That’s the most points any Hoya has scored in overtime under Coach Thompson III’s reign. The next best was DaJuan Summers with 8 against North Carolina in the East Regional Championship. Brandon Bowman also scored 8 in the overtime win against Norfolk State in Coach Thompson’s first season.
• The Hoyas went 18 for 18 from the free throw line on the night, which is the best in Georgetown’s recorded history – at least according to our friends at The Georgetown Basketball History Project. They go back to 1978 with free throw percentage stats, and the best on that list was 12-12 against American in December of 78.

  Edit: The Georgetown Media Guide confirms that 12-12 against American was the record.

• The Hoyas scored 111 points, which is the most under JTIII. The next best offensive performance was 110 against Radford at McDonough, the last victory for Georgetown at the on-campus arena.

See the followup post for one more interesting stat from last night’s game: More History Against Mizzou [Image via Getty Images]

Including the three players from the 2010 game, 36 Hoyas have played in the Capital Classic.

Markel Starks’ performance is tied for the second highest output by a future Hoya in the Cap Classic. Patrick Ewing and Mark Tillmon each also scored 18 points, so the young Mr. Starks is in pretty good company. Victor Page put up 22 points in 1994, which is still the Hoya record.

Below is a list of the Hoyas to play in the prestigious event, and their point total, some of which will surprise you.

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Here is one more reason why the Big East is the best conference in the world. Now, I know you’re thinking – “Doesn’t he mean the best conference in the country?” Sure, but if you’re the best in America, which has the best in the world, it automatically makes you the best in the world. For example, the best fast food in America is also the world’s best.
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When the Hoyas beat Villanova on Saturday, Georgetown broke some school records, and like we did after the Duke game, here are a few of the reasons the Blizzard Game will go down in history:

• As Mike pointed out, this was the first time that the Hoyas scored 100 points against a Big East opponent in regulation since 1996. In the last game of the regular season, the Hoyas defeated Villanova at the Caps Center/USAir Arena/whatever it was called at that time 106-68. It was the final home game for Othella Harrington, Jerome Williams, and Allen Iverson.
• The game marked the first time a team has scored 100 points against Villanova while Coach Jay Wright has been there. The last time was when Providence beat them 100-74 on February 11, 2004.
• Austin Freeman scored 25 points That marks the fourth straight game that Free has gone for 20 or more points. The last Hoya to do that was Mike Sweetney in 2003. Big Mike amazingly scored 20 or more in 26 out of 32 games that season.
  
  The last guard to score 20 points in four straight was Shernard Long back in 1998.
• Jason Clark scored a career high 24 points and one was one three-pointer shy of tying Mark Tillmon and Darrel Owen’s record of 7 in a single game.

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