WASHINGTON – Georgetown University's men's basketball team is back in action on Wednesday as the squad hosts the St. John's University Red Storm at Capital One Arena. Tipoff in the District is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and the game will be broadcast on FS1. The Hoyas are coming off a 70-54 home loss to Villanova last Friday and enter the contest at 8-17 on the year with a 1-13 mark in BIG EAST play. The Red Storm enter the matchup at 14-12 overall on the season with a 6-9 record in league action.
 
FOLLOW THE HOYAS

• Wednesday's game can be seen live on FS1 with Alex Faust calling the play-by-play and Tarik Turner providing analysis.
• The game will be broadcasted locally on The Team 980 and on the SiriusXM app with Rich Chvotkin on the call for his 50th season.
• A link to the live stats can be found on GUHoyas.com.

 
ABOUT THE HOYAS

• The Hoyas dropped a 70-54 loss to the visiting Villanova Wildcats on Friday. Rowan Brumbaugh led the Hoyas off the bench with 14 points, 12 in the second half, on 6-of-10 shooting, while Jay Heath chipped in 12 points. Supreme Cook grabbed a squad-best 11 rebounds while Brumbaugh's five assists paced the offense.
• Epps is currently fifth in the conference, averaging 17.2 ppg in 22 outings. He leads a trio of Hoyas in double-figure scoring as Dontrez Styles chips in 13.3 ppg while Cook adds 11.5 ppg.
• Cook's 8.3 rpg ranks third in the conference and is bolstered by his league-leading 4.1 offensive boards per game. Additionally, the East Orange native leads the squad in offensive efficiency, knocking down 62.1% (108-174) of his shots. Cook has tallied seven double-doubles on the season, with the most recent coming at Creighton (19P/11R) on Feb. 13.
• Epps dishes out 4.2 apg, holding on to eighth in the BIG EAST, while his 2.3 3-pointers made per game ranks seventh in the league.
• The Hoyas are led by Ed Cooley who is in his 18th season as a collegiate head coach and his first season with Georgetown. In 2022, Cooley was the recipient of the Naismith Coach of the Year Award, named the Sporting News Coach of the Year, the BIG EAST Coach of the Year, the NABC District 5 Coach of the Year and the USBWA District 1 Coach of the Year.

 
ABOUT THE RED STORM

• St. John's is coming off a 68-62 loss to Seton Hall at UBS Arena on Sunday. St. John's relinquished a 19-point advantage and was outscored 39-21 in the second half as the Pirates secured the comeback victory. Daniss Jenkins led the Red Storm with 17 points while Joel Soriano tallied a double-double with 13 points and a team-best 12 rebounds in the game. Jenkins paced the offense with six assists.
• Soriano leads the Johnnies in scoring, averaging 15.0 ppg. He is followed by Jenkins (14.3), Jordan Dingle (10.4) and RJ Luis Jr. (10.0).
• Soriano is nearly averaging a double-double, grabbing 9.4 rpg, which tops the BIG EAST in rebounding and he ranks third in the league in both offensive (3.8) and defensive (5.7) rebounds per game. Soriano is the most efficient on the SJU roster, knocking down 60.0% (144-240) of his shots.
• Jenkins' 5.4 apg paces the offense and ranks third in the conference.
• St. John's is led by Naismith Hall of Fame Head Coach Rick Pitino. Pitino has made 23 NCAA Tournament appearances with five different schools and advanced to the Final Four seven times, a total reached by only six coaches all-time. He became the first coach to take three different schools to the Final Four and the first coach to win an NCAA Championship at two different schools.

 
ABOUT THE SERIES WITH ST. JOHN'S

• Wednesday's game will be the 123rd meeting all-time between the two programs, dating back to December 1909. St. John's holds the 65-57 advantage in the head-to-head series. GU holds the 30-23 advantage at home.
• The last meeting between the two programs was a 79-70 loss at Capital One Arena a season ago.
• Cooley is 15-9 all-time against SJU, dropping his last meeting but winning three of the last four matchups. He is 1-1 against Pitino, with a pair of meetings coming when Pitino was at Louisville. Cooley took a 90-59 win in January 2012 while Pitino defeated Cooley's PC team 80-62 in January 2013. 

 
BIG EAST x BLACK FIVES

• Wednesday's game will be the second of three Black Fives games for the Hoyas.
• For a third-consecutive season, the BIG EAST Conference will celebrate Black History month by renewing its partnership with the Black Fives Foundation, a nonprofit public charity whose mission is to inspire excellence by preserving, teaching and honoring the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball.
• For 22 games, the BIG EAST men's and women's basketball teams will be wearing shooting shirts with the Black Fives mantra "Make History Now" with each team wearing the name and logo of a Black Fives team to honor those pioneers. The Georgetown men will represent the Washington Bears. Women's basketball coaches will wear "Make History Now" lapel pins and men's basketball coaches will wear lapel pins that recognize the 100 Year Anniversary of the Black Fives Era's most prolific team, the New York Rens.
• Black basketball teams, known as Black Fives, were prevalent from 1904 through 1950 when the game, like society, was racially segregated.  The men and women of the Black Fives Era opened doors for generations of African American basketball players, coaches, and contributors while staging culturally rich, socially meaningful events that strengthened and inspired Black communities, many of which are situated within the footprint of BIG EAST schools.