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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