A cursory look through the Georgetown Basketball History Project's archives indicates this was the most lopsided win since a 97-35 drubbing of Hawaii-Hilo in 1983. This was even worse than last year's Radford game (110-51), and that slaughter seemed to be incited by some chippy play by the Highlanders in the 1st half. I'm sure that HoyaSaxa.com will be able to put the game in its true historical context later tonight.
To add insult to injury, the official box score has the name of Tigers' school misspelled.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
. Home Visitor
. GU Savannah State
. 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total
Pace 34 32 66
Effic. 165.3 133.3 150.1 43.5 71.3 57.0
eFG% 79.3 72.9 76.4 21.9 34.0 27.2
TO% 20.3 24.8 22.5 23.2 24.8 24.0
OR% 81.8 55.6 70.0 30.8 22.2 27.3
FT Rate 55.2 41.7 49.1 6.2 32.0 17.5
Assist Rate 42.9 56.2 48.6 66.7 57.1 61.5
Block Rate 26.1 5.6 17.1 4.8 0.0 2.6
Steal Rate 11.6 18.6 15.0 11.6 6.2 9.0
2FG% 81.0 76.5 78.9 17.4 22.2 19.5
3FG% 50.0 42.9 46.7 22.2 42.9 31.2
FT% 68.8 80.0 73.1 50.0 75.0 70.0
Since the Hoyas got to the century mark, you'd expect that the game was played at a high pace, but not so - 66 possessions is about average for G'town so far this year.
Let's get that red mark out of the way early - the Tigers came into the game as a poor offensive rebounding team, yet still managed to get 30% of their own misses in the 1st half. Now, to be fair, an OReb = 30% is no great shakes, but it is above their season average of 28% coming into the game.
Georgetown shot obscenely well from 2FG all game, with 26 of 38 2FGA either dunk, tip-in or lay-up. And when they did take 2-pt jump shots, they made a remarkable 10/12 - that's as much good fortune as skill.
But the most impressive stat has to be offensive rebounding: there were 20 available rebounds when Georgetown was on offense, and the Hoyas corralled 14 of them - 70%!! Amazingly, the Hoyas have had an even better night on the glass in the not-so-distant past, when they got 71% OReb against Seton Hall in 2007.
Savannah St. never shot the ball well from 2FG, but made a few more 3FGs to start the second half (and annoyed JTIII enough to cause him to call a timeout) to lift their shooting percentage in the Vesper half.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATSThis was definitely a game for stat padding, as D. Summers was the only Georgetown player - starter or bench - to fail to produce a 100+ offensive rating, and he only missed by 0.1. He did, however, have the un-televised highlight of the game with a backdoor cut turned into a thunderous dunk in the 2nd half. As Dan Shulman (?) said a few years ago, "I never saw Princeton do that!"
GU Off Poss Individ Def Individ
Player Poss Used ORtg Pts Prod Poss DRtg Pts Allow Net Pts
Summers, DaJuan 33 10.5 99.9 10.5 34 52.2 3.5 +6.9
Wright, Chris 35 6.5 109.5 7.1 36 72.2 5.2 +1.9
Monroe, Greg 34 6.2 217.8 13.6 33 67.0 4.4 +9.1
Freeman, Austin 31 8.5 152.2 13.0 33 70.6 4.7 +8.3
Sapp, Jessie 38 5.7 190.2 10.8 37 64.5 4.8 +6.0
Mescheriakov, Nikita 24 1.9 127.2 2.4 25 43.6 2.2 +0.2
Jansen, Bryon 4 1.0 200.0 2.0 4 100.0 0.8 +1.2
Clark, Jason 37 7.8 153.7 11.9 37 31.2 2.3 +9.6
Vaughn, Julian 30 7.9 154.7 12.2 32 54.3 3.5 +8.7
Sims, Henry 29 4.2 143.5 6.0 29 30.1 1.7 +4.3
Wattad, Omar 25 4.2 215.4 9.1 25 51.9 2.6 +6.5
TOTALS 64 64.3 153.2 98.5 65 54.9 35.7 +62.8
Savannah State Off Poss Individ Def Individ
Player Poss Used ORtg Pts Prod Poss DRtg Pts Allow Net Pts
Bailey, Raye 56 8.7 117.8 10.3 54 149.2 16.1 -5.8
Jones, Anthony 46 10.5 71.0 7.5 46 155.1 14.3 -6.8
Shuler, Jovonni 34 6.2 40.4 2.5 31 132.0 8.2 -5.7
Hassan, Rashad 32 2.6 208.8 5.3 32 152.7 9.8 -4.4
Linton, Chris 42 15.0 35.4 5.3 42 145.5 12.2 -6.9
Hardy, Patrick 34 2.0 0.0 0.0 34 161.8 11.0 -11.0
St. Fort, Mark 15 0.0 - 0.0 14 155.2 4.3 -4.3
Mitchell, Rod 13 5.0 0.0 0.0 11 114.2 2.5 -2.5
Izevbigie, Glen 13 2.0 0.0 0.0 12 199.3 4.8 -4.8
Brown, Curtis 25 6.0 34.9 2.1 27 159.2 8.6 -6.5
Louis, Arnold 15 3.2 82.6 2.7 17 160.6 5.5 -2.8
TOTALS 65 61.3 58.3 35.7 64 152.0 97.3 -61.6
In terms of absolute offensive efficiency, G. Monroe led with way, with his 3 offensive rebounds and 1 A / 0 TO (along with 3 blocks on defense) complimenting his efficient shooting performance.
Well, I could keep going down the list, but everyone had a nice offensive game today, so I'll cut right to the chase: the player of the game is . . . Jason Clark. Mr. Clark secures the first POTG for a bench player this season, as he was a perfect 3/3 2FG, 4/4 FT (and 0/2 3FG), grabbed 4 off. rebounds and 2 steals and committed no turnovers.
HD BOX SCORE
Savannah State vs GU
12/08/08 7:30 at Verizon Center
Final score: GU 100, Savannah State 38
Savannah State Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Bailey, Raye 33:49 -48 14/36 1- 2 3- 5 3- 4 7/47 4/ 8 1/54 3/56 0/30 0/35 2/19 4
Jones, Anthony 28:58 -39 9/31 1- 6 2- 6 1- 2 12/42 0/ 8 0/46 0/46 0/27 1/31 0/17 1
Shuler, Jovonni 20:07 -24 2/23 0- 3 0- 2 2- 2 5/33 1/ 8 2/31 1/34 0/20 1/25 3/ 8 4
Hassan, Rashad 21:00 -24 4/24 2- 5 0- 0 0- 0 5/32 1/ 7 0/32 0/32 0/23 3/23 0/13 1
Linton, Chris 24:55 -32 5/29 2-11 0- 0 1- 2 11/38 0/ 9 0/42 4/42 0/26 2/27 0/11 2
Hardy, Patrick 21:14 -44 0/13 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/26 0/ 4 1/34 2/34 0/20 0/22 0/ 8 1
St. Fort, Mark 08:45 -17 0/ 6 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/10 0/ 1 0/14 0/15 1/ 5 0/ 9 1/ 4 2
Mitchell, Rod 07:13 -15 0/ 0 0- 5 0- 0 0- 0 5/13 0/ 0 1/11 1/13 0/ 4 1/13 0/ 3 2
Izevbigie, Glen 08:46 -21 0/ 5 0- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/ 9 0/ 1 1/12 1/13 0/ 8 0/ 8 0/ 3 2
Brown, Curtis 15:52 -31 2/11 1- 3 0- 3 0- 0 6/23 1/ 3 0/27 1/25 0/17 1/19 0/ 8 0
Louis, Arnold 09:21 -15 2/12 1- 3 0- 0 0- 0 3/12 1/ 3 0/17 1/15 0/10 1/ 8 0/ 6 2
TOTALS 40:00 38 8-41 5-16 7-10 57 8/13 6/64 16/65 1/38 12/44 6/20 21
. 0.195 0.312 0.700 0.615 0.094 0.246 0.026 0.273 0.300
GU Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Summers, DaJuan 19:21 +25 14/49 4- 6 2- 2 0- 1 8/28 1/13 2/34 5/33 0/21 1/11 4/25 1
Wright, Chris 21:03 +32 6/58 3- 5 0- 1 0- 0 6/32 4/18 1/36 1/35 0/22 0/14 2/25 1
Monroe, Greg 19:40 +31 13/54 4- 6 0- 0 5- 7 6/30 1/16 1/33 0/34 3/19 3/11 4/21 1
Freeman, Austin 20:30 +21 14/45 6- 6 0- 1 2- 2 7/27 3/13 1/33 3/31 1/21 0/ 9 3/24 2
Sapp, Jessie 23:58 +30 14/56 3- 3 2- 4 2- 2 7/29 1/16 1/37 0/38 0/25 0/ 9 3/26 0
Mescheriakov, Nikita 15:11 +30 3/39 0- 1 1- 1 0- 2 2/18 1/11 0/25 1/24 0/14 0/ 8 2/15 2
Jansen, Bryon 02:57 + 3 2/ 7 0- 0 0- 0 2- 2 0/ 2 0/ 2 0/ 4 0/ 4 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0
Clark, Jason 21:14 +45 10/56 3- 3 0- 2 4- 4 5/32 1/19 2/37 0/37 0/24 4/13 1/27 2
Vaughn, Julian 20:20 +31 7/46 3- 3 0- 0 1- 2 3/23 3/14 0/32 2/30 1/22 5/ 9 3/23 3
Sims, Henry 18:33 +36 8/50 2- 2 1- 1 1- 2 3/24 0/15 2/29 2/29 2/16 0/ 8 4/16 0
Wattad, Omar 17:13 +26 9/40 2- 3 1- 3 2- 2 6/20 3/11 0/25 1/25 0/20 0/ 8 4/17 0
TOTALS 40:00 100 30-38 7-15 19-26 53 18/37 10/65 15/64 7/41 14/20 32/44 12
. 0.789 0.467 0.731 0.486 0.154 0.234 0.171 0.700 0.727
Efficiency: GU 1.562, Savannah State 0.585
eFG%: GU 0.764, Savannah State 0.272
Substitutions: GU 32, Savannah State 41
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: GU 4-4, Savannah State 1-1
Layups/Tips: GU 16-22, Savannah State 2-8
Jumpers: GU 10-12, Savannah State 5-32
Fast break pts: GU 8 (0.099), Savannah State 2 (0.065)
Seconds per off. poss: GU 17.5, Savannah State 20.2
Much like last season, Georgetown will turn from an absolute blow-out to a much more difficult task, facing off against the Memphis Tigers. Memphis is in the midst of an 11-day break (scheduled for finals, I'd expect), and will be looking to beat the Hoyas in consecutive seasons. SFHoya99 has a preview above.
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