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WASHINGTON -- Last Saturday, Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson said there were days when the team's upperclassmen would stand out as they did in a thrilling overtime win against Indiana. One week later, it was the Georgetown freshmen who stepped forward, as three scored in double figures to lead the 25th-ranked Hoyas to a 76-61 win over Creighton in front of 11,164 fans at Verizon Center Saturday afternoon.

It was the team's fourth win in the last five games and fifth in the last seven as Georgetown improved to 9-4 overall and 1-1 in the BIG EAST, while Creighton falls to 9-6 overall and 0-2 in league play.

Four of Georgetown's freshmen - guard Tre Campbell (Washington, D.C./St. Joh's College HS [Md.]), forward Isaac Copeland (Raleigh, N.C./Brewster Academy [N.H.]), forward L.J. Peak (Gaffney, S.C./Gaffney) and forward Paul White (Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young) - combined for 39 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.

Campbell came off the bench and provided a spark at the end of the first half, finishing with 13 points and two assists in a career-high 26 minutes. Peak scored 14 points, had four rebounds and three steals, while White added 10 points, four rebounds and two assists and Copeland chipped in two points and one rebound.

The last time three Georgetown freshman scored in double-figures was back on Jan. 18, 2005 against

The Hoyas led 33-31 at the break despite trailing for most of the half until Campbell's 3-pointer put Georgetown up by a basket with 49 seconds remaining.

Campbell's third 3-pointer of the game gave the Hoyas their first double-digit lead, at 54-44, with 11:37 remaining.

Georgetown shot 75.0 percent in the second half (15-of-20) and went on to lead by as many as 18 at 71-53 after two free throws from senior center Joshua Smith (Kent, Wash./Kentwood/UCLA) with 2:51 remaining in the game.

Smith scored a game-high 16 points to lead five players in double figures, with senior guard Jabril Trawick (Philadelphia, Pa./Abington Friends) scoring 12 points and handing out three assists.

It was a sluggish start to the first half for the Hoyas, who hit only five of their first 16 shots and were trailing by six points, 25-15, with just over seven minutes left to play in the half. A 7-0 run from the Hoyas - started by a jumper from Campbell and then a 3-pointer from junior guard D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central/Oak Hill) and capped by free throws from Peak - gave GU its first lead, 22-21.

Creighton countered with an 8-2 spurt to take a 29-24 lead after jumpers from Zach Hanson and Isaiah Zierden and free throws from Devin Brooks, but the Hoyas closed out the half with a 9-2 run, taking a 33-31 lead after a jumper from Copeland with five seconds left.

Georgetown finished the game shooting 58.7 percent from the floor (27-of-46), hit 42.1 percent of its 3-pointers (8-of-19), including 6-of-10 in the second half, and was 73.7 percent from the free throw line (14-of-19). The Hoyas were out-rebounded, 33-24, and had 16 assists, with eight different players recording at least one apiece.

Creighton, which has lost four out of five, was led by both Devin Brooks and Zach Hanson with 11 points each. The Bluejays outrebounded the Hoyas 33-24 but shot just 20 percent (5-of-25) from 3-point range and made just one in the second half.

Georgetown is back in action on Tuesday, Jan. 6, hosting BIG EAST rival Marquette at Verizon Center. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. The game will be shown live on FOX Sports 1, with Tim Brando and Donny Marshall calling all of the action. The game can be heard locally on ESPN 980 AM.