Final score: Georgetown 72, Mount St. Mary's 50

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            Georgetown                      MOUNT         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            32        32        64
 
Points          34        38        72          32        18        50   

Effic.        107.3     118.6     112.9       101.0      56.2      78.4  
 
eFG%           68.2      66.0      67.0        51.6      27.4      39.5  
TO%            34.7      18.7      26.7        12.6      12.5      12.5  
OR%            40.0      41.7      40.9        23.5      16.7      19.5  
FTA/FGA        31.8      44.0      38.3         0.0       6.5       3.2  

Assist Rate    64.3      43.8      53.3        46.2      25.0      38.1  
Block Rate     11.8      19.0      15.8         0.0      13.0       7.5  
Steal Rate      9.5       6.2       7.8        18.9       9.4      14.1  
 
2FG%           70.6      65.2      67.5        41.2      33.3      36.8  
3FG%           40.0      50.0      42.9        42.9      10.0      29.2  
FT%            57.1      45.5      50.0          -       50.0      50.0

More stats after the jump

Recap: Georgetown 83, Mount St Mary's 62

I didn't get a chance to watch tonight's game, and the WTNT-AM radio feed was also down (no Chvotkin!), so instead I had the pleasure of listening to Roy Sigler (and play-by-play man Steve Stofberg) on WTHU.  I highly recommend it the next time Georgetown plays Mount St. Mary's.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            Georgetown                      Mount St Mary's         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            33        40        73
 
Effic.        119.6     108.6     113.6        86.7      83.4      84.9  
 
eFG%           60.9      45.9      52.9        48.3      47.8      48.1  
TO%            20.9      20.2      20.5        17.9      25.3      21.9  
OR%            33.3      40.9      37.8        16.7      14.3      15.6  
FT Rate         3.1      29.7      17.4         0.0      65.2      28.3  

Assist Rate    52.9      37.5      45.5        66.7      60.0      63.6  
Block Rate     23.8      11.8      18.4        18.2       9.7      13.2  
Steal Rate      6.0      12.6       9.6         6.0      10.1       8.2  
 
2FG%           54.5      45.2      49.1        33.3      47.1      39.5  
3FG%           50.0      33.3      43.8        55.6      33.3      46.7  
FT%           100.0      81.8      83.3          -       73.3      73.3

I won't be offering much of a recap tonight, just a few bullet points of statistical wisdom:

• This was easily the fastest-paced game of the year for the Hoyas.  Last year's game against the Mountaineers was played with 65 possessions.  Mt. St. Mary's had the faster offensive possessions, so it seems that they were attempting to push the pace this year, especially in the 2nd half.
  
  
• This was a fairly humdrum game for team stats (note the lack of color on the tempo-free box).  The biggest advantage for the Hoyas was on the glass, as they did a great job limiting the Mountaineers on second-chances.
  
  
• The Hoyas are shooting 40% on 3FGA for the year, and have made 40% of their attempts in 4 of 5 games played so far - the only struggle was vs. Temple [3/18 3FGA].  After 5 games last season, the Hoyas were at 28% against admittedly tougher opponents.
  

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Wright, Chris          54   19.0  128.8   13.2      55    76.0    8.4      +5.1  
Monroe, Greg           50   36.4  119.4   21.7      51    81.4    8.3     +10.2  
Freeman, Austin        58   20.2   72.1    8.5      57    73.7    8.4      -0.1  
Clark, Jason           56   19.8  110.9   12.3      55    74.0    8.1      +4.1  
Vaughn, Julian         42   20.2  179.9   15.3      42    84.1    7.1      +8.2  
Thompson, Hollis       40   11.7  133.9    6.3      39    84.2    6.6      +1.0  
Mescheriakov, Nikita   10   10.0    0.0    0.0      11    94.1    2.1      -1.5  
Sanford, Vee           17   26.9   68.8    3.1      17    94.3    3.2      -0.6  
Dougherty, Ryan         2    0.0    -      0.0       3   200.0    1.2      -1.2  
Benimon, Jerrelle      11    9.1    0.0    0.0      11   122.1    2.7      -2.0  
Sims, Henry            25    6.4   76.8    1.2      24   103.1    5.0      -2.1  
TOTALS                 73         112.4   81.6      73    83.5   61.0     +20.9  

Mount St Mary's       Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
CAJOU, Jean            56   25.1   77.1   10.8      57   118.1   13.5      -4.2  
GOODE, Jeremy          56   18.8   82.2    8.6      57   107.2   12.2      -3.1  
BEIDLER, Kelly         49   17.3   70.2    6.0      50   106.6   10.7      -3.9  
ATUPEM, Shawn          54   23.9   45.3    5.8      54    99.9   10.8      -6.0  
KRAJINA, Kristijan     27   24.0   60.5    3.9      28   122.9    6.9      -3.5  
BROWN, Pierre          34   13.3  116.1    5.3      35    90.0    6.3      +0.1  
BROWN, Oliver           3   33.3  200.0    2.0       2   120.0    0.5      +1.2  
HARVEY, Mike            3    0.0    -      0.0       2   120.0    0.5      -0.5  
TRICE, Lamar           21   35.8  120.8    9.1      20    91.7    3.7      +3.8  
JACKSON, Tayvon        41    9.1  174.4    6.5      38   127.5    9.7      -0.7  
THOMPSON, Danny        21    8.2   83.5    1.4      22   102.1    4.5      -1.7  
TOTALS                 73          83.8   59.5      73   108.4   79.1     -18.8

Julian Vaughn + more layups - FT attempts = success.

Greg Monroe attempted 19 shots tonight (although at least a few were tip-in attempts on offensive rebounds) without a big hit to his offensive efficiency.

Reports of the demise of Chris Wright's outside shot were slightly exaggerated.   If Wright, Freeman, Clark and Thompson can all keep shooting >38% for the rest of the season, there may suddenly be a lot more space for those backdoor cuts.

Jason Clark got hosed by the official scorer.  He drew a charging foul on Lamar Trice in the 2nd half, but the official scorer accidentally gave the foul and turnover to Clark.  The play-by-play parser complained, or I wouldn't have noticed myself.  The Net Points and HD box scores are corrected.

HD BOX SCORE

Mount St Mary's vs Georgetown
11/30/09 7:30 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 83, Mount St Mary's 62

Mount St Mary's         Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
CAJOU, Jean            30:56  -30  16/41  2- 6  4- 6  0- 0 12/41  0/10  0/57  4/56  0/39  0/26  4/26   5
GOODE, Jeremy          30:42  -21   5/43  1- 4  0- 1  3- 4  5/39  7/15  1/57  4/56  1/39  0/24  3/29   0
BEIDLER, Kelly         28:15  -21   5/36  1- 6  1- 3  0- 0  9/39  1/11  1/50  1/49  2/31  2/27  4/20   0
ATUPEM, Shawn          28:44  -20   6/37  3-10  0- 0  0- 2 10/40  0/10  1/54  2/54  0/33  1/28  3/22   1
KRAJINA, Kristijan     15:08  -10   3/27  0- 2  1- 3  0- 0  5/21  1/ 9  0/28  2/27  0/22  1/12  3/15   1
BROWN, Pierre          18:51  - 2   4/32  1- 1  0- 0  2- 2  1/23  2/11  1/35  2/34  1/32  0/11  2/26   0
BROWN, Oliver          00:59  + 4   2/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  2- 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 2  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 1   0
HARVEY, Mike           00:59  + 4   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 2  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 1   0
TRICE, Lamar           11:29  + 5   8/24  1- 2  1- 2  3- 4  4/16  3/ 5  1/20  2/21  0/15  0/ 9  0/11   3
JACKSON, Tayvon        21:29  -12  11/36  5- 5  0- 0  1- 1  5/28  0/ 9  0/38  1/41  2/32  1/14  3/20   1
THOMPSON, Danny        12:28  - 2   2/22  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/16  0/ 6  1/22  0/21  1/18  0/ 9  1/14   0
TOTALS                 40:00       62    15-38  7-15 11-15    53 14/22  6/73 18/73  7/53  5/32 23/37  11
.                                        0.395 0.467 0.733       0.636 0.082 0.247 0.132 0.156 0.622    

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Wright, Chris          30:48  +24  18/68  3- 6  4- 5  0- 0 11/55  3/22  1/55  2/54  0/30  0/25  3/25   1
Monroe, Greg           27:55  +18  19/59  7-17  1- 2  2- 2 19/47  3/16  0/51  3/50  1/26  5/24  6/24   2
Freeman, Austin        31:13  +22   9/64  4- 9  0- 1  1- 1 10/54  2/23  1/57  3/58  0/31  0/26  1/27   2
Clark, Jason           29:26  +16  12/64  3- 4  1- 3  3- 5  7/54  3/22  4/55  3/56  0/26  2/29  3/21   1
Vaughn, Julian         22:10  + 9  14/44  7-10  0- 1  0- 0 11/37  3/11  0/42  0/42  3/23  3/19  5/18   0
Thompson, Hollis       22:38  +13   5/43  1- 3  1- 2  0- 0  5/40  0/14  0/39  0/40  1/22  3/25  4/18   2
Mescheriakov, Nikita   05:34  - 2   0/ 7  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 5  0/ 2  0/11  0/10  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 8   0
Sanford, Vee           08:11  - 6   4/11  0- 2  0- 1  4- 4  3/13  0/ 2  1/17  1/17  0/ 5  0/13  2/ 5   0
Dougherty, Ryan        00:59  - 4   0/ 2  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0   2
Benimon, Jerrelle      05:42  + 3   0/16  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 8  0/ 4  0/11  1/11  0/ 4  0/ 6  0/ 4   0
Sims, Henry            15:24  +12   2/37  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/30  1/15  0/24  1/25  2/16  0/14  3/10   1
TOTALS                 40:00       83    26-53  7-16 10-12    69 15/33  7/73 14/73  7/38 14/37 27/32  11
.                                        0.491 0.438 0.833       0.455 0.096 0.192 0.184 0.378 0.844    

Efficiency: Georgetown 1.137, Mount St Mary's 0.849
eFG%: Georgetown 0.529, Mount St Mary's 0.481
Substitutions: Georgetown 24, Mount St Mary's 28

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 3-3, Mount St Mary's 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 17-29, Mount St Mary's 11-20
Jumpers: Georgetown 6-21, Mount St Mary's 4-18

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 16 (21.9), Mount St Mary's 7 (13.7)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 6 (85.7), Mount St Mary's 9 (150.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 17.0, Mount St Mary's 15.8

Stats pages won't get updated until tomorrow night.

Recap: Georgetown 69, Mount St. Mary's 58

It was a rather desultory effort today, but Chris Wright and . . . er . . . Chris Wright played a strong game in leading the Georgetown Hoyas to a 69-58 victory against local rival (?) Mount. St. Mary's. I didn't get a chance to watch or listen to the game, so this recap is done exclusively from the box score / play-by-play.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            GU                              Mount St. Mary's 
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            31        32        64

Effic.        104.1     109.8     106.8        75.7     103.7      89.8

eFG%           41.7      47.5      44.0        36.7      48.3      42.5
TO%             9.5      18.3      13.9        18.9      21.4      20.1
OR%            40.9      31.2      36.8        27.3      50.0      37.5
FT Rate        46.7     120.0      76.0        13.3      30.0      21.7

Assist Rate    72.7      25.0      52.6        50.0      61.5      56.5
Block Rate      4.3      10.0       7.0        14.3      16.7      15.2
Steal Rate      9.5      15.3      12.4         3.2      12.2       7.7

2FG%           38.1      41.7      39.4        34.8      50.0      41.9
3FG%           33.3      37.5      35.3        28.6      30.0      29.4
FT%            57.1      70.8      65.8        50.0      55.6      53.8

First, a kudos to whoever entered the play-by-play for today's game - no errors (at least none detected by my compiler), which makes working up the numbers a pleasure.

The tempo-free box make it look like a relatively one-sided 1st half, but it actually was a fairly even game excluding the last 3:30, when, with the scored tied at 24, the Hoyas went on a 9-0 run to pull decisively ahead. The Mountaineers got no closer than 5 points in the 2nd half, but never trailed by more than 13 points.

Georgetown took excellent care of the basketball in the 1st half, with just three turnovers in 31 offensive possessions. However, the Hoyas settled for 2-pt jumpers too often, making only 2/8 (not surprising) out of 30 total FGA in the half.

From the realm of non-shocking developments, Georgetown allowed far too many offensive rebounds in the 2nd half (Mt. St. Mary's was able to gather half of their own misses), which likely was the determining factor in allowing the Mountaineers to hang around. Since Mt. St. Mary's is a pedestrian rebounding team, I think this has officially become one of the Hoyas' Achilles' heels (as noted by Basketball Prospectus).

The 2nd half eventually degenerated into a FT shooting contest (G'town shot more FTs than FGs in the half), but is also notable for the Hoyas shooting 0/2 on dunks (D. Summers and A. Freeman).

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

GU                    Off    Poss           Individ     Def             Individ             
Player                Poss   Used    ORtg   Pts Prod    Poss    DRtg   Pts Allow   Net Pts
Summers, DaJuan        56    13.6    90.6    12.3        54    105.1     11.4       +0.9
Wright, Chris          59    16.6   109.1    18.1        57     61.6      7.0      +11.1
Monroe, Greg           39     7.9    95.9     7.6        39     89.0      6.9       +0.7
Freeman, Austin        48     7.3   117.0     8.5        47     97.0      9.1       -0.6
Sapp, Jessie           43     6.9   110.6     7.6        43     82.2      7.1       +0.5
Mescheriakov, Nikita    5     1.0     0.0     0.0         5      0.0      0.0       +0.0
Clark, Jason           23     3.2   137.9     4.4        23     86.7      4.0       +0.5
Vaughn, Julian         21     3.7    93.4     3.4        21     94.3      4.0       -0.5
Sims, Henry             6     0.0     -       0.0         7    200.0      2.8       -2.8
Wattad, Omar           20     1.5   217.3     3.3        19     51.9      2.0       +1.3
TOTALS                 64    61.7   105.9    65.3        63     86.1     54.2      +11.1    

Mount St. Mary's      Off    Poss           Individ     Def             Individ             
Player                Poss   Used    ORtg   Pts Prod    Poss    DRtg   Pts Allow   Net Pts
Cajou, Jean            53     6.8   102.3     7.0        53     96.9     10.3       -3.3
Goode, Jeremy          51    15.8    65.7    10.4        49    105.0     10.3       +0.1
Beidler, Kelly         55    15.7    93.6    14.7        57    101.3     11.5       +3.1
Atupem, Sam            51    13.5    95.8    12.9        51    119.2     12.2       +0.8
Mitchell, Markus       45     4.3   137.2     5.9        45     81.4      7.3       -1.4
Brown, Pierre          12     1.0     0.0     0.0        13     67.4      1.8       -1.8
Atupem, Shawn          26     3.6   118.0     4.3        27     96.8      5.2       -0.9
Holland, Will          11     0.5   200.0     1.0        11    116.0      2.6       -1.6
Trice, Lamar            8     1.7    82.4     1.4        10    122.8      2.5       -1.1
Jackson, Tayvon         3     0.0     -       0.0         4    100.0      0.8       -0.8
TOTALS                 63    62.9    91.4    57.5        64    100.6     64.4       -6.9    

The 11-point margin of victory is also the net points attributed to Chris Wright (player of the game) in the game, so we can statistically say that he truly was the difference today. Mr. Wright was not particularly efficient today, but he did use 28% of the possessions he played in producing his points, while his defense was markedly stronger than his fellow starters.

Summers and Freeman were the next best starters in producing points, although they did it in different manners (missed dunks withstanding). Summers used a large percentage (24%) of available possessions to inefficiently generate offense (2/7 2FGA, 2/5 3FGA, 3/8 FTA (!), 2 TOs), while Freeman shot much better (2/5 2FGA, 1/2 3FGA, 3/4 FTA) but did so by using only 15% of possessions. Both struggled a bit on defense, as well.

G. Monroe and J. Sapp had games similar to Summers and Freeman, respectively, although their defensive effort was stronger.

J. Clark, J. Vaughn and O. Wattad appear to be settling into the 6-8 spots in the rotation, and Clark and Wattad had nice games in limited playing time. I'm penalizing Vaughn for shooting a 3FGA.

HD BOX SCORE

Mount St. Mary's vs GU
12/20/08 1:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: GU 69, Mount St. Mary's 58

Mount St. Mary's        Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Cajou, Jean            32:56  - 6  10/50  2- 3  2- 7  0- 0 10/49  1/15  1/53  0/53  0/25  0/33  2/28   5
Goode, Jeremy          32:15  - 4   8/52  2- 9  0- 2  4- 7 11/51  4/18  1/49  2/51  0/26  3/34  4/26   0
Beidler, Kelly         34:36  -11  16/52  3- 8  3- 7  1- 2 15/52  3/15  1/57  4/55  0/30  3/34  5/34   4
Atupem, Sam            30:46  -18  12/43  6-12  0- 0  0- 0 12/46  0/11  0/51  4/51  2/25  5/31  3/26   1
Mitchell, Markus       28:39  - 2   5/40  2- 2  0- 0  1- 2  2/44  2/14  2/45  1/45  2/26  4/32  5/31   3
Brown, Pierre          07:13  - 8   0/ 2  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 7  0/ 1  0/13  0/12  0/ 6  0/ 7  2/10   1
Atupem, Shawn          17:57  + 0   5/29  2- 5  0- 0  1- 1  5/22  1/ 9  0/27  1/26  1/13  0/13  2/18   5
Holland, Will          08:01  - 1   2/12  1- 1  0- 1  0- 1  2/13  0/ 4  0/11  0/11  0/ 6  0/ 9  1/ 7   1
Trice, Lamar           05:21  - 5   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 4  2/ 3  0/10  1/ 8  0/ 6  0/ 2  0/ 9   2
Jackson, Tayvon        02:16  + 0   0/ 4  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 2  0/ 2  0/ 4  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 1   0
TOTALS                 40:00       58    18-41  5-17  7-13    58 13/23  5/64 13/63  5/33 15/38 24/38  22
.                                        0.439 0.294 0.538       0.565 0.078 0.206 0.152 0.395 0.632    

GU                      Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Summers, DaJuan        34:30  + 4  13/61  2- 7  2- 5  3- 8 12/45  2/13  1/54  2/56  1/37  2/35  2/32   2
Wright, Chris          35:59  +20  19/62  5- 9  1- 2  6- 9 11/46  3/11  4/57  3/59  0/40  3/36  3/38   3
Monroe, Greg           24:24  + 2   8/40  2- 5  0- 0  4- 6  5/30  1/10  1/39  1/39  0/25  1/23  3/22   3
Freeman, Austin        30:01  + 0  10/49  2- 5  1- 2  3- 4  7/40  2/12  0/47  2/48  0/33  1/31  6/31   2
Sapp, Jessie           26:33  + 4   6/41  1- 5  1- 4  1- 2  9/37  0/10  0/43  0/43  0/32  4/31  4/32   2
Mescheriakov, Nikita   03:06  + 6   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 2  0- 0  2/ 3  0/ 1  0/ 5  0/ 5  0/ 2  0/ 2  0/ 3   1
Clark, Jason           15:26  + 6   6/31  1- 1  0- 0  4- 4  1/15  0/ 6  2/23  1/23  0/ 9  0/ 9  1/ 9   1
Vaughn, Julian         13:14  + 6   2/24  0- 1  0- 1  2- 2  2/15  2/ 5  0/21  0/21  2/15  1/12  1/15   0
Sims, Henry            04:11  - 4   0/10  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 5  0/ 3  0/ 7  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0   0
Wattad, Omar           12:36  +11   5/21  0- 0  1- 1  2- 3  1/14  0/ 5  0/19  0/20  0/ 9  1/ 9  3/13   1
TOTALS                 40:00       69    13-33  6-17 25-38    50 10/19  8/63  9/64  3/41 14/38 23/38  15
.                                        0.394 0.353 0.658       0.526 0.127 0.141 0.073 0.368 0.605    

Efficiency: GU 1.078, Mount St. Mary's 0.921
eFG%: GU 0.440, Mount St. Mary's 0.440
Substitutions: GU 21, Mount St. Mary's 36

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: GU 1-3, Mount St. Mary's 2-3
Layups/Tips: GU 9-18, Mount St. Mary's 13-21
Jumpers: GU 3-12, Mount St. Mary's 3-17

Fast break pts: GU 6 (0.136), Mount St. Mary's 10 (0.196)
Seconds per off. poss: GU 19.2, Mount St. Mary's 17.9