1/14/2005
Georgetown (11-4, 3-1) made its first visit to Villanova's (9-3, 2-2) Pavilion on 1/15/05 and, emerged victorious 66-64 despite a stacked deck. The Hoyas, starting three freshmen, walked onto a Villanova campus celebrating the 20th anniversary of their victory over Georgetown for the National Championship in 1985. Beyond retiring a jersey for Rollie Massamino, selling memorobilia and reuniting the 85 team, the sold out arena was unanimous in its anticipation of capitalizing on emotions and defeating the Hoyas again. Although the final score of that game was duplicated (66-64), this time the Wildcats were on the wrong end.
For the second consecutive game Jeff Green paced Georgetown's scoring effort with 16. Also for the second consecutive game Jeff scored a double-double, (his 5th) leading all rebounders with a career high 12 boards. Brandon Bowman scored 11 points and had 8 boards, 3 assists, 3 blocks and a steal. Ashanti Cook added 10 points and was a part of the game winning play while Ray Reed and Darrel Owens each contributed 9. Darrel also led both teams in assists with 5 and after Ashanti's court length pass, scored the game winner from the stripe with 00:00.01 on the clock.
In the first frame the game see-sawed through the first 11 minutes. Down 2 (18-20) at the 09:02 mark, the Hoyas watched the Cats put together a 13-2 spurt in less than 5 minutes. At intermission the Hoyas trailed by 9, 27-36.
In the second half Georgetown improved its shooting from 40.7% to 50%, clamped down on Villanova's shooting (from 46.7% from the field to 28.6%) and dominated the boards (GU 39, VU 27). By 11:50 the Hoyas had eliminated Villanova?s lead and when the Cats ran it back up to 6, GU answered with a 9-0 run of their own. With 2 ticks on the clock a dunk by Will Sheridan knotted the score at 64 but Ashanti Cook's outlet pass to a streaking Darrel Owens let him try for the buzzer beater. When Villanova's Chris Sumpter fouled him with 00:00.1 on the clock, Darrel calmly dropped in two from the sin stripe and sent home a lot of disappointed Nova fans.
