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| Wednesday Update | 1/7/09 |
Greg Monroe was named Big East Rookie of the Week for his efforts against Connecticut and Pittsburgh. Here's the news release from GUHoyas.com.
| Notre Dame 73, Georgetown 67 | 1/6/09 |
Luke Harangody and Kyle McAlarney combined for 48 points in a 73-67 win over Georgetown at the Joyce Center, a game that was not as close as the score might indicate.
Saturday's game versus Pitt had the air of a main event, but Monday's game seemed stuck in the sports undercard amidst the Fiesta Bowl and a subdued home arena during Notre Dame's Christmas break. The teams played relatively even for the first ten minutes of the first half, with foul trouble the early story. Georgetown's Dajuan Summers picked up two fouls by the 15:02 mark and ND's Luke Harangody picked up his second three minutes later. What each did with foul trouble set the course for the rest of the game.
Summers played sparingly in the first half, with little impact, and the sluggish play seemed to wear off on everyone but Greg Monroe, who had his third strong game in Big East play in as many starts. Georgetown led 13-11 and 20-19 before Harangody returned to form in the final five minutes of the half. Harangody, who had never scored more than 13 points against a Georgetown team in his college career, dominated on a 18-5 Irish run and a nine point halftime lead, 38-29. Georgetown was just 2-8 in Harangody's stretch, with two turnovers, as he finished with 19 first half points.
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Georgetown opened the second half crisply, closing the deficit to four at 39-35 and forcing four ND turnovers in its first seven possessions. The Hoyas appeared to catch a break when Harangody was tagged with his third foul with 17:33 to play, but Summers picked up his third just 33 seconds later, and just as he did Saturday against Pitt, he failed to be a scoring factor for the remainder of the game. Summers added just one field goal in the next 15 minutes of play while Harangody continued to battle underneath, while McAlarney, held to just one three pointer in ND"s narrow loss at St. John's, picked up his play. Summers picked up his fourth foul at the 11:45 mark trailing by five, 49-44, whereupon Harangody went to work. Off a pair of short misses by Monroe, Harangody sank a jumper to extend the lead to seven, 51-44, traded an Austin Freeman basket to go to 53-46, and picked up a key rebound off a Chris Wright three point miss, which saw the Irish go up by nine with 8:17, 55-46. Georgetown briefly closed within seven when McAlarney sank consecutive three pointers to extend the lead to 13, putting the game effectively out of reach, 61-48. |
23 Percent shooting for Jessie Sapp in three Big East games. 9 Missed free throws by Georgetown (13-22) 1 Missed free throws by Notre Dame (15-16) 13:26 Last three point field goal by Georgetown, then down five. 4:07 Last field goal by Notre Dame, then up 11. 44 Straight home wins by Notre Dame at Joyce Center. |
Georgetown still trailed by 11 entering the final four minutes, where Monroe closed the gap, only to see the Irish ice the game at the line. A 65% free throw shooting team at the line, ND sank 13 straight en route in the game and finished 17-18 from the line.
Georgetown was able to correct some of its most visible flaws from the Pitt game--it held the rebound edge and limited ND to just nine second chance points, down from 25 against Pitt, held a +16 in points in the paint, and got more time out of its bench. But in a conference that is so tight on the margin that a team can't afford to slide on the basics, missing 14 of 18 three point shots and a 13 of 22 effort from the line is not going to win games, whether it's Notre Dame or Rutgers. Georgetown, which was second in the league in 2007-08 in three point shooting, has now fallen to seventh in 2008-09 and its rebounding statistics place it firmly in the bottom of the conference.
Harangody finished with 31 points and 11 rebounds, while Monroe finished with 21 points for the Hoyas, marking ND's 44th straight home win and its first victory against Georgetown in five games over the last three seasons.
"We're going to have those nights in this league and we have to be better at everything else when we're having those nights," said coach John Thompson III. "From foul shots on down, the ball just didn't go in the basket tonight so we have to get stops and we have to get rebounds and we have to make things more difficult for them.
"Every night you are going to be in a position where you can win every game and if everything isn't in order, you can lose every game."
Here's the Georgetown half of the box score.
MIN 2FG 3FG FT REB A PF PTS
Starters:
Wright 31 4-8 1-6 2-4 5 4 4 13
Sapp 33 0-2 2-5 1-2 2 2 0 7
Freeman 30 2-4 0-2 1-2 3 3 2 5
Summers 22 3-5 0-2 5-5 5 0 4 11
Monroe 37 9-17 0-0 3-7 10 3 3 21
Reserves:
Clark 24 2-4 0-1 1-2 4 3 1 5
Vaughn 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 0 0 0
Sims 14 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 0 2
Wattad 6 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 0 1 3
DNP: Mescheriakov, Jansen
Team Rebounds 4
TOTALS 200 21-42 4-18 13-22 37 15 15 67
Post game coverage follows below.
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- Chicago Tribune
- Fox Sports
- The HOYA
- Scout.com
- South Bend Tribune
- Washington Examiner
- Washington Post
- Washington Times
| AP: #9 | 1/5/09 |
In a poll completed before Monday's loss, Georgetown is ranked 9th in the Monday Associated Press poll, up from 11th last week.
A record nine Big East teams made the poll, led by top ranked Pittsburgh. Other conference teams in the Top 25 include Connecticut (5), Syracuse (11), Notre Dame (13), Villanova (18), Marquette (18), Louisville (23), and West Virginia (25).
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