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After a defensive battle in the first half, the Hoyas broke the game open early in the second half only to watch the Louisville Cardinals crawl back in, and then take a lead of their own.
But Georgetown was not to be denied tonight, thanks to a Herculean effort by Chris Wright and a clutch 3FG by Hollis Thompson.
The Hoyas pulled it out in the end, 62-59.
Full Recap by Alan to follow.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Home Visitor . Georgetown Louisville . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 33 31 64 Points 22 40 62 18 41 59 Effic. 67.5 127.9 96.9 55.3 131.1 92.2 eFG% 34.5 82.4 52.2 29.6 53.3 42.1 TO% 24.6 25.6 25.0 33.8 16.0 25.0 OR% 30.0 16.7 26.9 31.6 50.0 40.0 FTA/FGA 13.8 88.2 41.3 11.1 36.7 24.6 Assist Rate 55.6 46.2 50.0 42.9 76.9 65.0 Block Rate 21.1 6.7 14.7 10.5 7.1 9.1 Steal Rate 18.4 9.6 14.1 12.3 12.8 12.5 2FG% 36.8 78.6 54.5 26.3 46.7 35.3 3FG% 20.0 66.7 30.8 25.0 40.0 34.8 FT% 50.0 80.0 73.7 66.7 81.8 78.6
The first half featured some excellent defense. On Louisville's end, they came out in a matchup zone that seemed to confound the Hoyas. Faced with this indeterminate defense that seemed to switch to man at times, the Hoyas became tentative and spent much of their offensive sets passing the ball around the perimeter before jacking up an ill-advised shot. Add in the usual smattering of sloppy turnovers, questionable offensive foul calls and some missed lay-ins and you can see how Georgetown ended up with only 22 points.
On the other side, though, Georgetown was fantastic in the first half. The guards stayed in front of Peyton Siva, who has been unstoppable of late. They were also extremely active in forcing turnovers -- there were a lot of slapped balls. The result was only 18 points for Louisville.
The second half was completely different. Both teams made adjustments; both teams began to shoot a bit better. On the Louisville side, either Pitino saw a weakness in the corner of the defense or the Hoyas got a bit tired. Either way, Louisville came back due to a series of threes, mostly from the corner. They also crashed the boards with impunity.
Georgetown began to jump-start its offense at the end of the first half, and it did it primarily in two ways. One, by getting Chris Wright out on the break, where he repeatedly creating easy points when nothing else was becoming easy. And secondly, by getting the ball into Julian Vaughn. Toss in the free throws down the stretch, and that's enough to overcome a bad set of turnovers at the end. Again.
Interestingly, Georgetown's good defense in the last couple of games has been by forcing jump shots instead of allowing lay-ins. This game, they did force jump shots, but the Hoyas allowed many more close shots than they had in previous games. Much of this seems due to the strong offensive rebounding by Louisville.
Where Louisville may have lost the game is that they couldn't make those close in shots, shooting only 8-16. Georgetown shot 13-19 in similar shots.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Wright, Chris 59 26.3 136.6 21.2 59 83.3 9.8 +9.8 Freeman, Austin 57 27.7 78.0 12.3 58 79.9 9.3 +1.4 Clark, Jason 51 20.9 32.6 3.5 48 83.0 8.0 -4.9 Vaughn, Julian 42 10.0 200.9 8.5 41 84.0 6.9 +3.2 Lubick, Nate 39 16.7 63.6 4.1 35 99.7 7.0 -2.6 Thompson, Hollis 35 16.0 81.5 4.6 35 90.0 6.3 -1.1 Starks, Markel 10 10.0 200.0 2.0 8 164.3 2.6 -0.1 Sanford, Vee 1 0.0 - 0.0 2 10.0 0.0 -0.0 Sims, Henry 23 14.9 87.3 3.0 23 110.2 5.1 -1.4 Benimon, Jerelle 8 14.6 28.6 0.3 11 54.8 1.2 -0.6 TOTALS 65 93.1 59.4 64 87.8 56.2 +3.3 Louisville Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts KNOWLES, Preston 53 15.7 106.2 8.8 53 106.5 11.3 -1.2 SIVA, Peyton 48 25.7 46.6 5.7 47 81.8 7.7 -3.1 SMITH, Chris 48 21.1 95.0 9.6 52 74.9 7.8 +1.9 KURIC, Kyle 59 13.9 83.8 6.9 59 100.4 11.8 -3.2 JENNINGS, Terrence 43 27.9 136.2 16.3 45 90.9 8.2 +6.8 GOODE, George 21 23.9 84.0 4.2 20 106.9 4.3 -0.6 SMITH, Russ 12 22.7 60.4 1.6 15 88.4 2.7 -0.9 MARRA, Mike 31 18.1 69.8 3.9 28 88.6 5.0 -1.0 VAN TREESE, Stephan 5 0.0 - 0.0 6 106.8 1.3 -1.3 TOTALS 64 88.9 57.2 65 92.2 60.0 -2.5
As for stars of the game, can we give them all to Chris Wright? Well, offensively, at least. When the team was struggling, he found easy baskets. And late in the game, he made a crazy-we-really-needed-that shot that outdid Austin Freeman's game-saving shot from Saturday.
Julian Vaughn was the other star, offensively and defensively. His minutes seemed limited by what seems to be a persistent injury. But when he was in, he was perfect from the field and was the strongest defender we had in the post today.
The rest of the players will have negative scores, but they each contributed defensively. Jason Clark was a disaster on offense, but he was a demon on defense, especially in the first half. Austin Freeman had a surprisingly poor offensive day, but it was primarily turnover based.
Now, onto Providence!
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Stats pages will be updated tomorrow.
HD BOX SCORE
Louisville vs Georgetown
01/31/11
7:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 62, Louisville 59
Louisville Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
KNOWLES, Preston 33:42 -11 11/44 0- 5 3- 9 2- 3 14/48 1/11 1/53 1/53 1/29 1/33 1/23 1
SIVA, Peyton 28:55 - 3 5/39 0- 2 1- 3 2- 2 5/38 3/12 2/47 7/48 0/23 0/24 3/20 2
SMITH, Chris 31:01 + 4 7/49 1- 5 1- 3 2- 2 8/46 4/16 3/52 1/48 0/22 3/27 4/21 2
KURIC, Kyle 36:40 - 2 9/53 1- 3 2- 4 1- 3 7/53 2/15 0/59 3/59 1/29 1/34 3/23 2
JENNINGS, Terrence 24:54 + 5 18/45 8-12 0- 0 2- 2 12/38 0/ 8 0/45 1/43 0/21 4/22 3/16 2
GOODE, George 15:01 - 8 4/14 1- 3 0- 0 2- 2 3/18 0/ 3 0/20 1/21 0/12 2/14 2/10 1
SMITH, Russ 08:10 + 3 0/18 0- 3 0- 0 0- 0 3/14 1/ 6 1/15 1/12 1/ 8 1/ 8 1/ 5 2
MARRA, Mike 18:17 - 2 5/27 1- 1 1- 4 0- 0 5/26 2/ 7 1/28 1/31 0/17 0/16 2/ 9 1
VAN TREESE, Stephan 03:20 - 1 0/ 6 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 6 0/ 5 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 3 4
TOTALS 40:00 59 12-34 8-23 11-14 57 13/20 8/65 16/64 3/33 14/35 19/26 17
. 0.353 0.348 0.786 0.650 0.123 0.250 0.091 0.400 0.731
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Wright, Chris 35:54 + 5 24/57 8-11 0- 3 8- 8 14/41 3/12 1/59 2/59 0/30 0/23 5/32 1
Freeman, Austin 34:59 + 4 13/54 3- 6 2- 5 1- 2 11/40 3/15 3/58 6/57 0/30 1/22 2/31 2
Clark, Jason 30:34 + 6 2/49 0- 4 0- 2 2- 2 6/35 1/18 1/48 3/51 0/30 1/19 4/33 1
Vaughn, Julian 25:58 + 8 10/42 4- 4 0- 0 2- 2 4/30 1/10 0/41 0/42 4/23 1/17 4/28 1
Lubick, Nate 21:54 - 2 3/34 1- 3 0- 0 1- 3 3/30 0/11 1/35 1/39 1/19 2/19 1/20 1
Thompson, Hollis 23:29 + 3 6/36 0- 2 2- 3 0- 0 5/23 1/10 1/35 2/35 0/20 0/12 1/22 1
Starks, Markel 06:26 - 2 2/11 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 7 0/ 2 0/ 8 0/10 0/ 5 0/ 4 0/ 5 0
Sanford, Vee 01:58 + 0 0/ 1 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 2 0/ 0 1/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 2 0/ 0 0
Sims, Henry 13:57 - 5 2/20 1- 1 0- 0 0- 2 1/16 2/ 7 0/23 1/23 0/11 0/ 9 1/ 8 2
Benimon, Jerelle 04:51 - 2 0/ 6 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 6 0/ 3 1/11 1/ 8 0/ 2 1/ 3 1/ 1 3
TOTALS 40:00 62 18-33 4-13 14-19 46 11/22 9/64 16/65 5/34 7/26 21/35 12
. 0.545 0.308 0.737 0.500 0.141 0.246 0.147 0.269 0.600
Efficiency: Georgetown 0.954, Louisville 0.922
eFG%: Georgetown 0.522, Louisville 0.421
Substitutions: Georgetown 32, Louisville 33
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 0-0, Louisville 3-3
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 13-19, Louisville 5-13
Jumpers: Georgetown 5-14, Louisville 4-18
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 6 (12.5), Louisville 4 (8.3)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 10 (111.1), Louisville 6 (75.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 16.8, Louisville 20.4
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