March 10, 2006
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The Georgetown University men's basketball will play Syracuse on Friday night at 7 p.m. in the BIG EAST Tournament Semifinals at Madison Square Garden. The game will be shown on ESPN and can be heard locally on SportsTalk 980 AM.
Georgetown in the BIG EAST Tournament ... Georgetown will play Syracuse tonight in the BIG EAST Tournament Semifinals ... The Hoyas advanced to the semifinals for the 17th time with a 62-59 win over fourth-seeded Marquette on Thursday night ... Syracuse beat top-seeded Connecticut, 86-84, in overtime to reach tonight's game ... Georgetown is 10-6 all-time in the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals ... The Hoyas will be looking to reach the championship game for the 11th time in program history ... With two wins so far, the Hoyas now have an all-time record of 40-19 in the BIG EAST Tournament ... Georgetown has won six BIG EAST Tournament Championships (1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1989) ... Only one other league member has won as many conference tournament championships (Connecticut).
For Openers ... Georgetown advanced to the semifinals of the BIG EAST Tournament with a 62-59 win over fourth-seeded Marquette on Thursday afternoon ... The Hoyas improved to 21-8 overall with the win ... The win moves GU into the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals for the first time since the 2000 season and the 17th time overall ... The Hoyas have a 10-6 record when playing in the semifinals ... Georgetown has met Syracuse in the tournament semifinals three times ... The Hoyas trail 1-2 in league semifinal meetings, posting a 74-65 win in 1985 ... Georgetown's last two games have been decided by four points or less ... The Hoyas are 6-1 in games decided by four points or fewer.
Green & Cook, Bowman's Clutch Free Throws Carry Georgetown Past Marquette ... Georgetown sophomore forward Jeff Green and senior guard Ashanti Cook scored 16 points apiece and senior forward Brandon Bowman added 14 points - including an 8-of-8 performance from the free throw line - to lift the Hoyas to a 62-59 over Marquette on Thursday afternoon ... Green led the Hoyas in points, rebounds (9) and assists (5), connecting on 6-of-13 shots from the field ... Bowman scored 14 points and hit all eight of his free throw attempts in the final 2:34 and six in the final 37.7 seconds to seal the win.
About the Hoyas ... Head Coach John Thompson III mentored the Hoyas to a 19-13 record in his first year at the helm of the Hoyas, improving on the 13-15 finish of the previous season ... Georgetown advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2005 National Invitation Tournament ... This season, the team was picked to finish sixth in the BIG EAST ... In two years, Thompson has guided the Hoyas to a 40-21 record, including an 18-14 record in BIG EAST play ... Sophomore forward Jeff Green, last year's co-BIG EAST Rookie of the Year, has been one of the most versatile players on the team ... He leads the team in scoring, tallying 12.0 points per game ... Green is also second on the team in rebounds with 6.5 per game, and in assists, with 3.21 dishes per game ... Green has led the team in scoring eight times, in rebounding 11 times and in assists 11 times ... Sophomore center Roy Hibbert is third on the team in scoring, averaging 11.2 points per game ... He is second on the team in rebounding (6.3 rpg) and leads the squad with 44 blocked shots, which is 11th in the BIG EAST (1.57 per game) ... Hibbert rejected a career-high six shots at No. 10 Illinois on December 8... Hibbert also leads the team in field goal percentage, connecting on 57.9 percent of his shots from the field (124-of-214) ... Hibbert has scored in double figures 15 times this year and led the team in scoring 10 times ... He has six double-doubles this season, which is tied for the fifth-most in the BIG EAST this season ... Senior forward Brandon Bowman is second on the team in scoring, averaging 11.5 points per game, and is third on the team in rebounding, grabbing 5.2 boards per game ... He is shooting 46.2 percent from the field (117-of-253).... Bowman scored a season-high 25 points - tying the team season best, set by Hibbert and Ashanti Cook - in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament against Notre Dame ... Bowman's 25 points against Notre Dame moved him past the 1,500-point mark for his career, making him only one of six players in program history with at least 1,500 points and 700 rebounds ... Bowman has started all 123 games in his Georgetown career ... Senior guard Ashanti Cook, who scored a career-high 25 points in the win at Oregon on December 3, is fourth on the team in scoring with 9.9 points per game ... He is shooting 45.9 percent from the field (101-of-220) ... Senior guard Darrel Owens has been a spark off the bench, averaging 8.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists ... He scored 21 points in the win over UTEP and was named Most Valuable Player at the Sun Bowl Tournament ... His season high 24-point performance in the win at St. John's included 6-of-8 shooting from beyond the arc ... Owens has three 20-point games and is second on the team with 44 treys ... Sophomore guard Jonathan Wallace is fifth on the team in scoring with 8.4 points per game ... Wallace is second on the team, averaging 3.14 assists and is fifth with 2.3 rebounds ... He leads the team with 45 three-pointers and is fifth in the BIG EAST in assist/turnover ratio, handing out 3.14 per game while committing only 1.4 turnovers ... Freshman guard Jessie Sapp is averaging 15.8 minutes off the bench while contributing 3.0 points and 1.8 rebounds ... The Hoyas are limiting opponents to 59.6 points per game ... They are shooting 47.2 percent from the floor (698-of-1,480).
Scouting Syracuse ... Syracuse enters today's game with a 21-11 overall record ... The Orange were the No. 9 seed in the tournament after posting a 7-9 mark in the BIG EAST ... Syracuse has won its last two games after entering the BIG EAST Tournament with three-straight losses ... Syracuse's starters are averaging at least 28.9 minutes per game ... Senior guard Gerry McNamara leads the team in scoring, averaging 16.5 points per game ... He has connected on a team-best 95 three-pointers and leads the team with 6.03 assists per game ... In two BIG EAST Tournament games, he is averaging 17.0 points and 11.0 assists per game ... Junior forward Demetris Nichols is second on the team in scoring with 13.6 points per game ... He is second on the team in three-point field goal percentage, hitting 35.5 percent of his shots (66-of-186) ... Freshman guard Eric Devendorf is averaging 12.4 points per game, while junior forward Terrence Roberts is averaging 10.8 points and a team-leading 7.8 rebounds per game ... Junior forward Darryl Watkins is averaging 7.0 points, is second on the team with 7.2 rebounds and has blocked a team-best 94 shots, a 2.9 per game average ... The Orange are scoring 73.6 points per game, while yielding 69.6 per game ... They have connected on 43.8 percent of their shots from the field, 33.7 from three-point land and 64.3 percent from the free throw line ... They are controlling the boards, grabbing 38.9 rebounds to their opponents' 37.9 per game ... Syracuse is averaging 15.5 turnovers per game.
The Series with Syracuse... Today's game with Syracuse is the 76th meeting between the teams ... The Orangemen lead the head-to-head series, 40-35 ... Georgetown ended a five-game losing streak against the Orangemen with a 78-63 win on February 25 ... The Hoyas are 6-5 against Syracuse in BIG EAST Tournament play.
