Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Recap: South Florida 72, Georgetown 64

You can call it a trap game or you can call it a bad loss, but it'll look the same in the record book at the end of the season.

What this game may have done is further inflame the debate far and wide about who is the most valuable player for the Hoyas, as Georgetown dropped yet another game when Chris Wright scored less than 10 points.

Edited to add:
Sorry, it doesn't look like I'll have time to write up a recap.  Here's some discussion of the game from Dan Hanner (uber-blogger and Basketbal Prospectus author):
South Florida was flat out the better team on Wednesday night.

[snip]

Georgetown was double and triple teaming [Dominique] Jones early in the game and leaving other players open. And Jones did what Hazell doesn’t. Jones set up his teammates. And while his teammates were missing open shots, he showed he was willing to pass and Jones made the defense respect the pass.

Then at the start of the second half, USF ran two straight plays that picked up fouls number two and three on Greg Monroe. That was huge. Monroe had been dominating the game to this point on both ends of the court. But now Greg Monroe started playing tentative to avoid his 4th foul. And the light went off for USF. Stan Heath said it in the post-game. “We knew they were more aggressive in the first half, and we knew if we had a chance, we had to become the more aggressive team in the second half.” South Florida began to take the ball to the basket relentlessly, and South Florida quickly erased a 9 point deficit and built an 8 point lead on the Hoyas.

Make no mistake. Georgetown was not overlooking USF. Georgetown came out with intensity and was making shots. Early in the game Austin Freeman was fouled on a three point attempt and still hit nothing but net. At halftime Georgetown led by 9. This was not a Georgetown team that overlooked USF. USF simply played better basketball.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            Georgetown                      South Florida         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            31        36        67
 
Effic.        113.6      80.9      96.0        84.4     128.3     108.1  
 
eFG%           66.0      40.0      53.0        37.5      69.6      52.0  
TO%            19.5      22.3      21.0        13.0      11.2      12.0  
OR%            18.2      28.6      25.0        31.6      22.2      28.6  
FT Rate        16.0      72.0      44.0        35.7      91.3      60.8  

Assist Rate    46.7      33.3      41.7        60.0      33.3      44.0  
Block Rate      9.5      11.8      10.5         0.0      20.0       8.8  
Steal Rate      9.7       2.8       6.0         9.7      13.9      12.0  
 
2FG%           63.2      46.7      55.9        42.9      76.5      57.9  
3FG%           50.0      20.0      31.2        14.3      33.3      23.1  
FT%            50.0      50.0      50.0        50.0      66.7      61.3


There was a 21-possession stretch from late in the 1st half [1:37] to the middle of the 2nd half [7:49] where the Hoyas committed 9 turnovers, and saw their 35-23 lead turn into a 44-52 deficit to the Bulls.  That's a 29-9 run allowed over ~14:00 of game action, during which the Hoyas turned the ball over 43% of the time and allowed 1.4 points per possession.

They were never able to recover.


INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Wright, Chris          64   18.3   83.3    9.8      63   104.5   13.2      -2.9  
Monroe, Greg           54   33.4  117.5   21.2      54    92.6   10.0      +7.9  
Freeman, Austin        59   22.6  107.2   14.3      60   121.8   14.6      -1.1  
Clark, Jason           61   11.4   96.2    6.7      61    99.9   12.2      -2.9  
Vaughn, Julian         37   20.4   83.7    6.3      35    96.2    6.7      -0.7  
Thompson, Hollis       19   16.1  150.8    4.6      18   130.2    4.7      +0.3  
Sanford, Vee            2    0.0    -      0.0       3   200.0    1.2      -1.2  
Benimon, Jerrelle      29   13.8    0.0    0.0      31    96.5    6.0      -4.9  
TOTALS                 65          97.2   62.9      65   105.5   68.6      -5.5  

South Florida         Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
HOWARD, Chris          57   17.4  103.0   10.2      58    99.9   11.6      -0.5  
JONES, Dominique       63   40.8  111.4   28.7      64    84.6   10.8     +12.4  
FAMOUS, Jarrid         47   19.7   81.7    7.6      49   102.4   10.0      -2.2  
FITZPATRICK, Toarlyn   46    6.9  137.7    4.4      45    80.9    7.3      -0.5  
MERCER, Mike           48   23.7  112.3   12.7      46    98.0    9.0      +2.7  
CRATER, Anthony        47    4.0  141.2    2.7      47    86.5    8.1      -2.2  
RIVAS, Alex            17   22.4   92.3    3.5      16    97.6    3.1      +0.1  
TOTALS                 65         107.1   69.8      65    92.3   60.0      +9.7



HD BOX SCORE

South Florida vs Georgetown
02/03/10 7:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: South Florida 72, Georgetown 64

South Florida           Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
HOWARD, Chris          36:11  + 5   8/63  2- 4  0- 4  4- 6  8/46  6/21  1/58  1/57  0/30  0/27  0/29   2
JONES, Dominique       39:03  + 6  29/70  7-12  1- 5 12-17 17/50  4/16  3/64  3/63  1/33  1/30  7/31   4
FAMOUS, Jarrid         32:45  + 5   7/54  3- 8  0- 0  1- 2  8/42  0/18  0/49  1/47  1/26  2/21  2/20   5
FITZPATRICK, Toarlyn   26:37  + 8   6/51  3- 4  0- 0  0- 2  4/38  0/16  2/45  0/46  1/24  1/22  5/25   4
MERCER, Mike           25:48  + 9  12/52  5- 8  0- 1  2- 2  9/36  1/12  0/46  1/48  0/23  3/22  3/24   1
CRATER, Anthony        28:44  + 6   6/54  0- 0  2- 3  0- 2  3/33  0/15  2/47  0/47  0/26  0/20  3/25   1
RIVAS, Alex            10:52  + 1   4/16  2- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/10  0/ 2  0/16  2/17  0/ 8  1/ 8  2/ 6   3
TOTALS                 40:00       72    22-38  3-13 19-31    51 11/25  8/65  8/65  3/34  8/28 24/32  20
.                                        0.579 0.231 0.613       0.440 0.123 0.123 0.088 0.286 0.750    

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Wright, Chris          38:50  - 7   8/62  3- 4  0- 6  2- 4 10/49  5/20  1/63  1/64  0/37  0/32  1/30   1
Monroe, Greg           35:35  - 4  21/52  9-13  0- 1  3- 7 14/40  1/11  1/54  4/54  3/32  2/23  6/25   5
Freeman, Austin        36:11  -12  21/58  3- 7  4- 4  3- 5 11/46  1/14  0/60  4/59  1/33  0/30  2/25   4
Clark, Jason           38:00  - 2   7/62  1- 2  1- 4  2- 2  6/48  1/21  1/61  0/61  0/35  1/31  5/29   2
Vaughn, Julian         22:15  -10   5/31  2- 5  0- 0  1- 4  5/31  0/10  1/35  1/37  0/27  3/22  3/18   4
Thompson, Hollis       10:12  - 4   2/22  1- 3  0- 1  0- 0  4/18  2/ 8  0/18  0/19  0/11  2/12  2/ 7   3
Sanford, Vee           00:24  - 3   0/ 3  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0   0
Benimon, Jerrelle      18:33  + 2   0/30  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/16  0/11  0/31  4/29  0/14  0/ 9  0/16   2
TOTALS                 40:00       64    19-34  5-16 11-22    50 10/24  4/65 14/65  4/38  8/32 20/28  21
.                                        0.559 0.312 0.500       0.417 0.062 0.215 0.105 0.250 0.714    

Efficiency: South Florida 1.108, Georgetown 0.985
eFG%: South Florida 0.520, Georgetown 0.530
Substitutions: South Florida 24, Georgetown 29

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: South Florida 4-5, Georgetown 0-0
Layups/Tips: South Florida 15-23, Georgetown 13-22
Jumpers: South Florida 3-10, Georgetown 6-12

Fast break pts (% FG pts): South Florida 8 (15.1), Georgetown 0 (0.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: South Florida 9 (112.5), Georgetown 0 (0.0)
Seconds per poss: South Florida 19.2, Georgetown 17.2




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Stats pages will be updated tomorrow.

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