Is the Georgetown basketball team won?”
Georgetown outlasts Temple WASHINGTON – Temple basketball coach Fran Dunphy and his Georgetown counterpart, John Thompson III, had experienced their share of battles in their previous jobs guiding rival Ivy League teams. Today at the Verizon Center, they added another encounter to the list. Thompson, who left Princeton to take over the Hoyas, saw 6-foot-11 forward Greg Monroe pivot to the basket for a layup with seven seconds left in the game, and No. 19 Georgetown came out on top, 46-45. An enthusiastic Georgetown crowd of 8,712 was on hand as the home team improved to 2-0. “Walking off the court, one of their assistants, Matt Langel, said this is just like Penn-Princeton,” Thompson said with a smile. “Yeah, it was. It definitely was.” Langel played at Penn under Dunphy, whose Temple squad fell to 1-1. The nonleague contest was part of ESPN’s 24-hour marathon of college basketball games. Temple received 12 points and 14 rebounds from 6-9 forward Lavoy Allen, who tried to stop the left
Greg Monroe scored on a driving layup with 6.5 seconds to play, rescuing No. 19 Georgetown from a lackluster Tuesday afternoon performance to give the Hoyas a 46-45 win over Temple. Georgetown won despite having more fouls (18) and turnovers (16) than made baskets (15). The Hoyas blew a 12-point second-half lead, shot 36 percent from the field and 3 for 18 from 3-point range. Chris Wright had 15 points, and Monroe had 11 points and nine rebounds for the Hoyas (2-0). Lavoy Allen had 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Owls (1-1), who nearly recovered from an abysmal first half to pull out the win.
The Georgetown University Men’s Basketball team (which, like all sports teams at Georgetown University, is named the Georgetown Hoyas) is a well-known basketball program in the NCAA Big East. Georgetown’s first intercollegiate men’s basketball team was formed in 1907. John Thompson III, son of the accomplished Hoyas coach John Thompson, is the current head coach. The Hoyas historically have been well regarded not only for their team success, but also for their ability to generate players that after graduation succeed both on the court (such as Patrick Ewing) and off (such as Henry Hyde). The team has reached the NCAA Tournament Final Four 5 times, winning the National Championship in 1984. It has also won the Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament 7 times, and has won the Big East regular season title 4 times. Its most recent trip to the Final Four was in 2007, where they lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the semi-final round.
