2/12/2003

Box Score

BLACKSBURG, VA. ?Despite trailing by 11 with over nine minutes remaining, Georgetown (13-8, 4-6) suffered its worst loss this season to Virginia Tech (17-5, 8-3), falling 78-46 in women?s basketball Wednesday night at Cassell Coliseum. The win extends the Hokies? home winning streak to 12 games while dropping the Hoyas to 3-5 on the road.

The Hokies shot lights out from start to finish, hitting 51% of their shots on the evening (60% in the second half alone) while the Hoyas struggled, sinking a season low 22% from the floor including 0-for-8 from behind the three point stripe. Virginia Tech led 28-16 at the half before Georgetown cut the deficit to eight just one minute into the second period. Georgetown maintained a strong effort despite Virginia Tech?s hot hand, trailing by 11 points with 9:09 remaining, before the wheels came off.

Plagued by foul trouble down the stretch, Rebekkah Brunson (Oxon Hill, Md./Oxon Hill) still led all Hoyas with 13 points before picking up her fifth at 5:44. Mary Lisicky (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) and Zsuzsanna Horvath (Budapest, Hungary/ELTE Trefort Agoston), who fouled out of the game at 6:13, scored nine points apiece. Lisicky failed to record a three-point field goal for the first time in seven games, and for just the third time since November 26th. Three Hokies scored in double figures, led by last season?s BIG EAST scoring average leader Ieva Kublina and her 16 points.

Virginia Tech exploded on a 20-7 run in front of the partisan Blacksburg crowd but Georgetown kept the Hokies within striking distance despite shooting just 14% from the field and Brunson picking up her third foul late in the half. The Hoyas struck swiftly in the second set, scoring two off of a strong inside move by Horvath and then capitalizing on a steal from Carmen Bruce (Pittsburgh, Pa./Sheneley) to add two more on Lisicky?s short jumper. In less than sixty seconds the Hoyas had cut the lead to eight. While forcing Tech into missing the next three shots, Lisicky and Kublina traded free throws in an effort to gain control of the game, but at 17:26 Brunson picked up her fourth foul and Virginia Tech would never again cede its double-digit lead. The Hokies tacked on 30 points in the final nine minutes of the contest to build a lopsided margin of defeat on the scoresheet. Statistically, the 32-point loss is the worst for the Hoyas this season.

Georgetown returns to its home court on Saturday, February 15th at 2:00 p.m. for a rematch with Syracuse. The Hoyas downed the Orangewomen 82-75 in overtime on January 15th, exactly one month prior to the date of this, the second meeting of the season.