Dec. 20, 2008

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Mount St. Mary's at Georgetown
Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008
Verizon Center
Post-Game Notes

• Georgetown improved to 8-1 after its 69-58 win over Mount St. Mary's.
• Hoya Head Coach John Thompson III improved his career record to 176-79, including a 108-37 mark at Georgetown.
• Georgetown leads the head-to-head series with the Mountaineers 20-5, and has won the last eight meetings between the teams.
• The Hoyas are now 43-4 all-time against teams from the Northeast Conference.
• The win was the 27th-consecutive win at Verizon Center for the Hoyas and it was the 28th-straight home win (including a win over Radford at McDonough Arena last season).

• The Hoyas have won 13-straight games at home against non-league opponents.

• The Hoyas scored 69 points in the win, the eighth time this season the team has scored at least 69 points.

• Georgetown is now 59-6 under John Thompson III when scoring at least 69 points.

• Georgetown had three players score in double figures, the ninth time this season at least three players have scored in double figures.
• The Hoyas committed a season-low nine turnovers against Mount St. Mary's.
• Georgetown took a season-high 38 free throws in the game.

• The team's 65.8 percent free throw shooting was a season low.

• Georgetown shot a season-low 38.0 percent from the floor (19-of-50); it was only the fifth time in the last three-plus years (spanning 112 games) the team shot below 40 percent.
• Sophomore guard Chris Wright scored 19 points to lead the Hoyas; it was his sixth game in double figures this season and the ninth double figure scoring game of his career.

• Wright grabbed a career-high seven rebounds in the game.

• Junior forward DaJuan Summers scored 13 points, the ninth time this season he has scored in double figures and the 45th time in his career.

• Summers has now scored 823 career points in 79 games, a 10.4 career average; he needs 177 points to become the 40th player in Georgetown history to score 1,000 points.

• Sophomore guard Austin Freeman scored 10 points, his seventh game in double figures this season and the 20th double-figure scoring game of his career.
• Senior guard Jessie Sapp grabbed a career-high nine rebounds.
• Sophomore guard Omar Wattad scored five points and grabbed four rebounds in 13 minutes off the bench.