On Wednesday, your Georgetown Hoyas (7-23, 2-17) will travel to Omaha, Nebraska to face the No. RV/23 Creighton Bluejays (18-11, 12-6) at the CHI Health Center Omaha for their BIG EAST season finale. Tipoff is set for 8:30 PM ET (FS1). The Hoyas recently suffered a 88-68 defeat to Providence in their home finale on Sunday, while Creighton’s last game was a 79-67 loss to Villanova at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.
While the Hoyas are stuck as the 11th seed in the BIG EAST Tournament, Creighton, with a game at DePaul this weekend, is still fighting for the 3-seed. The Bluejays have lost 3 of their last 4 games, starting with a 2OT loss at Providence, but they won the 8 games before that, including home wins against #13 Xavier and #21 UConn. They certainly need a get-right game for their senior night to change the momentum ahead of the BIG EAST Tournament.
Meanwhile, Georgetown is closing another dismal season ahead of facing the 6th-seeded, surging Villanova in one week at Madison Square Garden.
Since Patrick Ewing has been coaching his alma mater Georgetown, the team has gone 75-107 over the last six seasons—15-15, 19-14, 15-17, 13-13, 6-25, and 7-23 (so far).
In these last two seasons, the Hoyas have a record of 2-36 in BIG EAST games and 13-48 overall. Two more losses are expected.
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Slumping Creighton ready to break out against last-place Georgetown | FLM
“We’ve got one of the elite defensive players in the country at the rim (Ryan Kalkbrenner), and Villanova was able to turn our defense inside out with Dixon’s ability to stretch the floor,” McDermott told reporters. “Then once he hit some, I think we got caught in between some (switches). ‘Should we go, should we stay?’ And now we’re giving up threes and we’re giving up layups.” …
“Creighton, they play much faster than Providence does,” Ewing said. “They’ve got guys that can shoot at pretty much every position, so we have to do a great job of guarding the paint but also get to them at the 3-point line. Kalkbrenner is one of the best bigs in our conference.
Hoyas Travel to Omaha For Regular Season Finale | GUHOYAS
Creighton (18-11, 12-6 BE) is coming off a 79-67 loss to Villanova in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Three players finished in double figures in Arthur Kaluma (19), Ryan Kalkbrenner (18), and Baylor Scheierman (10). Kaluma led the way on the glass with six boards, while Scheierman recorded three assists and Kalkbrenner posted two…
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