WASHINGTON – Trailing 10 at the half, the Georgetown University men's basketball team used a second-half surge to defeat the visiting Delaware State University Hornets, 83-78, on Tuesday night at McDonough Arena. With the win at GU's campus home, the Blue & Gray improves to 3-0 on the season while the Hornets slip to 1-2 on the year.
ON THE RECORD
"First and foremost, very happy about the win. Right again, didn't have a great first half, but you got to give Delaware State a lot of credit. They played a great game, made some tough shots. Give them all the credit in the world. Stan (Waterman) did a great job, a great game plan. They were prepared. Give them all the credit. Where I will give our men credit is how we were resilient coming out of the locker room at halftime. Right. I was surprised at our deficit, but at the same time, I learned a lot about our team in two ways. One, we were kind of lackluster, and then when our backs were against the wall, we responded in a way that I'm very proud of. You can talk about all the negative things of the first half. I'm more excited about what I saw in the second half. I saw a group that was more connected and more urgent. We made an adjustment, and I think the adjustment won us the basketball game. We allowed our athleticism, our length and our size to be a major factor in the game. I don't know if I've ever coached in a game like this as a head coach, in a situation like this, and again, it was nerve-wracking. But again, one game, great win, moving on, looking forward to playing Clemson. We'll learn a lot from this in two different ways." - Head Coach
Ed Cooley
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS
- Vince Iwuchukwu led a quintet of Hoyas in double figures with a career-best 28 points on 81.8% (9-11) shooting as well as a 10-for-11 performance from the charity stripe. He pulled down a game-best 13 rebounds.
- Kayvaun Mulready followed with 14 points on the evening on 5-for-12 (41.7%) shooting from the field to go along with a trio of three-pointers. Mulready also added six rebounds.
- Josiah Parker notched 13 points on a perfect 5-for-5 shooting night and 3-for-3 from beyond the arc.
- Caleb Williams and Jaland Lowe each recorded 10 points for the Hoyas.
- Lowe led on the floor with a career-high 15 helpers to pace the Hoya offense and record his first double-double of the season.
- For the game, Georgetown shot 49.1% (27-55) from the floor and made 34.8% (8-23) from deep.
- The Hoyas forced 15 turnovers scoring 17 points in transition.
- Georgetown narrowly outrebounded the Hornets 32-30.
HORNET HIGHLIGHTS
- Nehemiah Reedus led all DSU scorers with 19 points on 7-for-12 shooting from the floor and a 4-for-6 performance from beyond the arc. Anthony Parker followed with 16 points, Joshua Obiora had 15 and Nasir Muhammad's 13 points rounded out the Hornets in double figures.
- Gideon Ekukwai grabbed a squad-best six rebounds.
- Parker's five assists paced the DSU offense.
- The Hornets shot 53.7% (29-54) from the floor and hit 9-of-19 (47.4%) from beyond the arc.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Georgetown got on the board first with a triple from Williams followed by an Iwuchukwu dunk as the Hoyas jumped to a quick 5-0 lead. As the squads settled in, Delaware State reeled off eight in a row to take a 13-9 advantage (14:08).
- Parker laced back-to-back 3-pointers to pull the Blue & Gray back ahead, but the lead was short-lived as the Hornets knotted the score once again.
- Trading points, Georgetown combined a pair of conventional three-point plays, one apiece from Elmarko Jackson and Iwuchukwu, to pull ahead by five, 25-20 (7:49). However, an 18-6 Hornet run pushed the visitors up 11 before a Mulready layup pulled the Hoyas within two possessions.
- Delaware State tacked on another five to take a 43-33 lead into the locker room.
- Coming out of the break, DSU knocked down a jumper to push the lead to 12 but the Blue & Gray would not go away and staged a 10-3 run, capped by a Williams dunk to pull within five (48-43).
- Georgetown continued to chip away when Parker nailed his third trey of the game to give the Hoyas a 52-50 lead. Moments later, a one-hand slam dunk from Chol Machot pushed the score to 54-53 (11:14).
- Going back and forth, it was a Mulready triple that brought the crowd into the game as Georgetown pulled ahead six, 66-60. However, the Hornets would not go away quietly, putting together a 9-2 spurt before another Mulready trey gave GU the advantage once again (5:44).
- The Hornets would pull within two (78-76) with 48 seconds to go in the contest, but crucial buckets from Iwuchukwu would push the Hoyas towards a 83-78 victory.
OF NOTE
- Lowe's double-double with at least 14 assists joins an elite club of BIG EAST personnel. Since the 1996-97 season, he is just the 17th athlete to achieve the feat and the second Hoya as Kevin Braswell put up 18 points and 16 helpers. He is also the fourth athlete to be coached by Cooley to hit the standard joining Vincent Council, Kris Dunn and Kyron Cartright.
- Lowe dished out a career-high 15 assists. His previous best was 12 against Eastern Kentucky on December 11, 2024.
- Iwuchukwu's first double-double of the season marks the seventh of his career and his 28 points were a career-best. His previous high was 25 in a home win against Providence a season ago.
- Parker's three triples were a career-best for the sophomore. In the entirety of his freshman season, he managed four treys.
UP NEXT
Georgetown returns to action on Friday, November 13, on the road against the Clemson University Tigers at Littlejohn Coliseum Arena. Tipoff in Clemson, South Carolina is scheduled for 6 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on ESPNU with Beth Mowins calling the play-by-play and Debbie Antonelli providing analysis. The game can be heard locally on Bloomberg 99.1 as well as on the SiriusXM app with Rich Chvotkin, in his 53rd season as the Voice of the Hoyas, calling the action.
