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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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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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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