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Thursday Update

9/2/10

The men's basketball team welcomed its freshmen at a New Student Orientation event this week, per a video at GUHoyas.com.

In addition to his introductions of Nate Lubick, Aaron Bowen, Moses Abraham, and Markel Starks, senior captain Chris Wright introduced John Caprio, a 6-6 small forward from Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, NJ. Caprio, averaging 18.1 per game for the Pirates last season, was one of the top 50 prospects in New Jersey for 2010 but remained unsigned into May. Caprio had a season high 23 points and 22 rebounds in a playoff win over Paramus Catholic before falling to St. Peter's Prep four days later in the semifinal.

And a happy 69th birthday to...John Thompson.

Off the sports pages, congratulations to Rev. Scott Pilarz, S.J. (C'81), named the next president at Marquette University on Tuesday. Pilarz taught at Georgetown before being selected as president at the University of Scranton in 2003.

"Jesuit education is the greatest gift that St. Ignatius gave to the world," said Pilarz. "I am awed by the transformative power of what we do in the lives of our students, and what they do in a world waiting to be made more just and more gentle."

Many Georgetown fans also know Pilarz is the proud owner of Jack III, the Georgetown bulldog that made its debut on campus in 1999. When Pilarz moved to Scranton, Jack retired as mascot and followed him there. "He's eleven years old now, he's been with me since my faculty days at Georgetown, and I'm hoping he'll make the trip to Milwaukee, too," Pilarz said in a Marquette press release.

Additional coverage follows in this link to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Former Georgetown forward Patrick Ewing Jr. (C'08) has signed a free agent contract with the New York Knicks prior to the opening of training camp, per a Knicks press release.

Ewing was the last cut from the Knicks in the 2008-09 camp, and was sent to the NBA developmental league. He missed all of last season with an injury.

Much of Big East scheduling is usually completed by late August, but with recent delays in schedule announcements from pro leagues, the conference has to wait. ESPN.com columnist Andy Katz explains the detail to which Big East games are scheduled and some of the delays, including that with Verizon Center, which may further delay this year's release.

The Georgetown Insider blog at GUHoyas.com has a photo of a new scoreboard at McDonough Gymnasium. The scoreboard notes a "match" and "score" function which will assist with women's volleyball games, which, along with women's basketball, form the majority of games during the school year at the 59 year old facility.

Despite a coaches' recommendation to the contrary, Big East officials have decided to keep the double-bye format for the top four seeds for its 2011 men's basketball tournament, reports Fanhouse, an AOL.com sports website.

Coaches had supported a change where the top four seeds would play Tuesday against the #13-16 seeds and take Wednesday off, rather than the current setup where the top four teams do not play its first game until Thursday. (The top seed in 2010, Syracuse, lost to Georgetown in its opening quarterfinal game.)

The current setup has the favor of ESPN, who is thought to have expressed concerns with a top seed playing in relative obscurity on Tuesday.

As always, prior stories over this past week or the last 10+ years of coverage can be found at the News Archive pages, including recaps of all prior games this season. It's a good way to keep up to date if you've visited the site less frequently.

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