PROVIDENCE, R.I.. – Despite career games from Micah Peavy and Thomas Sorber, the Georgetown University men's basketball team couldn't fend off a fiery Providence College Friar squad, falling 78-68 at Amica Mutual Pavilion on Saturday afternoon. With the setback, Georgetown is 13-7 on the season and 4-5 in BIG EAST play while Providence improves to 10-10 on the year with a 4-5 mark in league action.
 
ON THE RECORD
"I thought the energy that we played with was good, not great. This was the first game we played all year where I thought our defense let us down. I don't think we were gritty and I thought that Providence was tougher. They played really well defensively. We have a really, really quick turnaround on Tuesday. This has been a marathon of games, as we were the first bye in the BIG EAST, so we have not had a stretch where we can get healthy. Georgetown is going to continue to get better, continue to improve, and slowly but surely that wagon is coming." - Head Coach Ed Cooley
 
"I just tried to stay focused and stick to the game plan. I know they were throwing multiple bigs at me, but I was trying not to mind that. I? was just trying to stick to the game plan and do whatever Coach Cooley told me to do." - Thomas Sorber
 
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• Peavy led all scorers with a career-best 27 points on 12-for-19 shooting from the floor in a full 40 minutes of action.
• Sorber followed closely, matching his career high with 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting to go along with 15 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the season. He added three blocks to his line for the day.
• Malik Mack paced GU's offense with three helpers.
• The Hoyas shot 46.7% (28-for-60) from the floor and 30.8% (4-for-13) from behind the arc.
• The Blue & Gray was outrebounded 37-32 on the glass.

 
PROVIDENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Jayden Pierre and Joseph Bensley led the Friar offense tallying 14 points apiece. Jabri Abdur-Rahim, Corey Floyld Jr. and Oswin Erhunmwunse rounded out those in double figures with 12, 11 and 10, respectively.
• Erhunwunse and Bensley led on the boards grabbing six rebounds each while Floyd Jr. paced the offense with five assists.
• The Friars shot 28-for-62 (45.2%) from the floor and 7-for-22 (31.8%) from beyond the arc.
• Providence led on the glass, grabbing 37 rebounds, including 16 on the offensive end leading to 20 second-chance points.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Hoyas came out firing with Sorber tacking on a quick five points behind a triple and a jumper. Despite Providence tallying four on the other end, Georgetown staged a 13-3 run fueled by six from Peavy and another five from Sorber to take the 18-7 advantage and forcing the PC timeout.
• GU continued to pour the points in as a Mack stepback 3-pointer pushed the Blue & Gray ahead by as many as 12 (23-11) but the Friars would not go away.
• A 21-6 run from the home team gave Providence the 34-31 lead before a Sorber bucket ended the run and made it a one-point game. PC would tally two more buckets sending the squads into the locker room with the home team leading 38-33.
• The Friars came out hot, building the lead to seven (44-37) before eight unanswered, including a pair of buckets from Peavy, pushed the Hoyas back on top 45-44. It was short lived as PC would regain the lead and build back up to as many as 10 (68-58) with 4:05 remaining. Georgetown would reel off another seven unanswered including a Peavy triple, free throws from Sorber and Drew Fielder's first bucket of the game, to make it a one-possession game (68-65). However, that was as close as the Hoyas would get as free throws on the other end provided the 78-68 score at the final whistle.

 
OF NOTE

• Peavy's 27 was a career high, eclipsing his previous high of 26 set on February 17, 2024 at Kansas State.
• Sorber matched his career high of 25 points, which he set in the second game of the season on November 9, 2025 in a win against Fairfield.
• Pulling down 15 rebounds, Sorber set a new career best. His previous best was 13, a feat he has achieved three times this season, most recently at Marquette on January 7.

 
UP NEXT
Georgetown returns to action on Tuesday, January 28 as the Hoyas host No. 20 St. John's in the nation's capital. Tipoff at Capital One Arena is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on FS1 with John Fanta calling the play-by-play and Donny Marshall providing analysis. The game can be heard locally on Team 980 with Rich Chvotkin, in his 51st season as the Voice of the Hoyas, calling the action.