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Georgetown Hosts Seton Hall on Saturday at Verizon Center

Feb. 3, 2017

WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University men's basketball team will be back home this weekend, hosting long-time BIG EAST Conference rival Seton Hall on Saturday, Feb. 4 at Verizon Center. Tipoff is slated for noon.

The game will be shown live on FS1, with Joe Davis calling the play-by-play and Len Elmore serving as the color analyst. The radio call of Rich Chvotkin can be heard locally on 106.7 FM The Fan.

The Hoyas are coming off a thrilling 76-73 win at DePaul on Tuesday in Chicago. It was the team's third-straight win, the first two coming against nationally-ranked Creighton and Butler, as Georgetown improved to 13-10 overall and 4-6 in league play.

The game with Seton Hall on Saturday will be the 102nd meeting all-time between the schools, with Georgetown holding a 57-44 advantage in the series. Seton Hall won both games played between the teams last year and the schools have split the season series in the last two years, with GU sweeping in 2014-15. The Hoyas have won nine of the last 15 meetings overall. GU carries a 31-14 record at home against the Pirates and the Blue & Gray are 5-2 at home under Head Coach John Thompson III.

In the game at DePaul, junior guard L.J. Peak (Gaffney, S.C./Gaffney) scored Georgetown's last five points in the final 54 seconds and the Hoyas held off a game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer for the win. Graduate student Rodney Pryor (Evanston, Ill./Notre Dame Prep/Robert Morris), playing in front of nearly 60 family and friends, scored a game-high 26 points to lead Georgetown. Sophomore center Jessie Govan (Queens Village, N.Y./Wings Academy) added 14 points, five rebounds and three assists, while Peak finished with 13 points, three rebounds and two assists.

Peak is second on the team in scoring (16.2 ppg), leads the team in assists (3.3 apg) and is fifth on the team in rebounding (4.0 rpg). Peak ranks among the BIG EAST leaders in scoring (11th, 16.2), assists (T8th, 3.3), free throw percentage (7th, 82.0%), assist/turnover ratio (10th, 1.2), and minutes played (5th, 33.2 mpg). He has scored in double figures in eight-straight games, averaging 17.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists in that span.

Pryor leads the team, and is third in the BIG EAST, with 18.4 points per game. He is third on the team with 4.8 rebounds, fifth with 1.3 assists per game and has hit a team-best 59 3-point field goals. He is third in the league in 3-point field goals made, averaging 2.5 per game. Pryor, who has 10 20-point games this season, has scored in double figures in seven-straight games, averaging 18.0 points in that span

Govan, who has scored in double figures 12 times this season, is fourth on the team in scoring with 9.9 points and leads the team with 5.1 rebounds. He tied a season high with 20 points in the win over Butler last Saturday and has scored in double figures in the last three games, averaging 16.3 points and 5.1 rebounds in that span. Senior center Bradley Hayes (Jacksonville, Fla./Sandalwood) is fifth on the team with 4.7 points and is second with 4.9 rebounds.

Sophomore forward Marcus Derrickson (Bowie, Md./Brewster Academy [N.H.]), who missed four games earlier in the season, is fourth on the team with 8.9 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.

Junior guard Jonathan Mulmore (New Orleans, La./Redemption Christian/Allegany CC [Md.]), who has started the last three games, is averaging 3.9 points and 1.9 assists overall. In the last four games, he is averaging 4.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists.

The Hoyas have had strong contributions from the bench in last three games, averaging 23.3 points, 14.3 rebounds and 8.3 assists.

Seton Hall enters Saturday's game with a 13-8 overall record and a 3-6 mark in the BIG EAST following a 72-70 loss at Xavier on Wednesday night. The Pirates have lost their last two games and five of the last six overall, including four-straight on the road. Junior guard Khadeem Carrington is one of four players scoring in double figures, leading the team with 16.6 points per game. Junior forward Desi Rodriguez is second on the team with 16.0 points per game and junior forward Angel Delgado is third with 14.5 points and leads the BIG EAST with 12.9 rebounds per game, while freshman guard Myles Powell is averaging 11.0 points and has hit a team-best 45 3-point field goals. The Pirates rank eighth in the league in scoring offense (74.2 ppg) and fourth in the league in scoring defense (69.5 ppg)

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Players Mentioned

Jonathan Mulmore

#2 Jonathan Mulmore

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6' 4"
Junior
Rodney Pryor

#23 Rodney Pryor

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6' 5"
Fifth Year
Jessie Govan

#15 Jessie Govan

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6' 10"
Freshman
Marcus Derrickson

#24 Marcus Derrickson

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6' 7"
Freshman
L.J. Peak

#0 L.J. Peak

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6' 5"
Freshman
Bradley Hayes

#42 Bradley Hayes

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7' 0"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Jonathan Mulmore

#2 Jonathan Mulmore

6' 4"
Junior
G
Rodney Pryor

#23 Rodney Pryor

6' 5"
Fifth Year
G
Jessie Govan

#15 Jessie Govan

6' 10"
Freshman
C
Marcus Derrickson

#24 Marcus Derrickson

6' 7"
Freshman
F
L.J. Peak

#0 L.J. Peak

6' 5"
Freshman
F
Bradley Hayes

#42 Bradley Hayes

7' 0"
Freshman
C