WASHINGTON – Five Hoyas registered double-digit performances led by a career night from Collin Holloway to lift the Georgetown men's basketball team past the Longwood University Lancers, 91-83, at Capital One Arena on Tuesday night. With the victory, the Blue & Gray jump to 3-3 on the season while the Lancers slip to 4-4.
 
ON THE RECORD
"I'm very happy that we got the win. Longwood is a very good team … they played small, we had to go small to try to match up with them. Unfortunately we couldn't play our bigs as much as we wanted to, but [Collin Holloway] stepped up and had a big game. Collin played great for us. He's been hurt most of the summer, he came back and we're going to need him. We're going to need everyone - if we are going to reach our potential, we are going to need everyone to be able to help." - Head Coach Patrick Ewing
 
ABOUT THE HOYAS

• Holloway poured in a career-best 23 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and a perfect 7-of-7 effort from the charity stripe. The sophomore led five Hoyas in double figures and added a career-best four rebounds off the bench.
• Aminu Mohammed and Kaiden Rice each added 15 points. Mohammed went 5-for-10 from the field and grabbed 11 rebounds for the second double-double of his career.
• Rice hit all five buckets from deep (5-10 3FG)  and added five boards on the night.
• Dante Harris added 14 points to go along with a season-best seven boards and five assists, tied for the team lead.
• Donald Carey rounded out the Hoyas in double figures with 12 points, including a perfect 7-for-7 performance from the charity stripe. The graduate student matched Harris' five assists as both paced the offense.
• Georgetown shot 45.0 percent (27-60) from the floor and 43.5 percent (10-23) from deep, while holding the Lancers to 37.5 percent (9-24) shooting from beyond the arc.
• The Blue & Gray outrebounded Longwood (40-32) and registered a trio of blocks to LU's one.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Rice scored the first six points for the Hoyas, draining a pair of triples to pull the Hoyas to within five, 11-6, through the first five minutes of the game.
• At the midway mark of the opening frame, Holloway knocked down a trey to continue the Hoya push and chip away at the Lancer lead, 18-14.
• Rice capped a 6-0 Hoya run with a triple following a Mohammed block on the defensive end to knot the game at 24. Moments later, Mohammed played pickpocket at midcourt and helped GU to its first lead of the contest, 28-27, on a bucket inside.
• Both squads exchanged buckets over the final three minutes with Tyler Beard sinking a pair of free throws in the last 10 seconds to lift Georgetown to a 36-31 lead at the break.
• A conventional three-point play from Holloway put the Hoyas ahead 43-37 at the 17:10 mark of the second half.
• Georgetown scored 10 unanswered over a 59-second span to take a 13-point edge, 53-40, with 14:45 remaining.
• The Hoyas responded to Longwood's 13-point run midway through the second with a 6-0 run of their own capped by a Holloway steal and layup to put Georgetown ahead, 62-55.
• Georgetown went blow-for-blow over the next seven minutes with Longwood until Mohammed knocked down a pair from the free throw line to bump the Hoya lead to six, 83-77, with two minutes to go. Rice iced the game with a trey (0:25), lifting Georgetown to a 91-83 win over the Lancers.

 
OF NOTE

• Harris recorded his fifth-straight game with at least 10 points.
• Five players recorded at least 10 points in a game for the first time since Feb. 20, 2021 against Seton Hall.
• Carey remains perfect in the free throw department, hitting 19-of-19 through six games this season

 
UP NEXT
Georgetown will head to Columbia, South Carolina for a BIG EAST / SEC showdown with the South Carolina University Gamecocks (5-1) on Sunday, Dec. 5 at Colonial Life Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for noon ET and the game can be seen live on SEC Network+