With the season about two weeks away, anticipation for news about Hoyas hoops is steadily growing. The Georgetown Hoyas faced the Temple Owls in a scrimmage on October 22nd, in Philadelphia, and by all accounts, one guy named Brandon Murray played very well. The reports that this lunch blog received were that Murray was “aggressive,” “efficient,” and “good.” Jeff Goodman (who reports a second secret scrimmage against Liberty this weekend) relayed some solid news about the Hoyas and Temple.
Brandon Murray went for 30 points in Georgetown’s scrimmage yesterday against Temple, source told @Stadium.
Primo Spears with 13 points and 9 assists, Akok Akok with 13 points.
Khalif Battle had 15 points in 27 minutes for Temple. Zach Hicks with 19 points for the Owls.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) October 23, 2022
Reports that Akok Akok scored 13 and Primo Spears having 13 points with 9 freaking assists sounds fantastic. Akok being healthy is a terrific start and Spears distributing indicates he might be set up as the lead PG, for now.
Casual Hoya, himself, did some further investigation and found out that Dante Harris did not play, and D’ante Bass and Ryan Mutombo logged a few minutes, each.
Per source, Ryan Mutombo played about 3 minutes, D’ante Bass played 2 minutes, and Dante Harris didn’t play at all. Not much insight to gain with the above plus Wahab out, but good to see Murray, Spears and Akok productive. https://t.co/WXPWWTrzfX
— Casual Hoya (@CasualHoya) October 24, 2022
The other rumor is that prodigal son Qudus Wahab only played sparingly due to recovery from an illness. Maybe this came from his trip to NYC or is something that is going around on campus. No other injury/illness news has developed, so that’s good to hear. By all accounts, the Hoyas did look sharper than last year this time.
With Mutombo only playing 3 minutes, that likely means Akok Akok played center for extended time. Moreover, some whispers of potential inconsistency issues in the backcourt could be troubling, but are pretty much expected with new guys out there and Dante Harris not playing.
Temple’s Zach Hicks scoring 19 points is probably a concern. Temple’s 6’7” forward out of Camden, NJ is—you guessed it—a bit of a three-point shooter (37.4% last season, 6.6 attempts in conference play). Looking at his game log from last year, Hicks once shot 10-16 from three against Delaware State and went 5-11 against Tulane (scoring 21, his…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at Casual Hoya – All Posts…