How You Like Them Apples: Georgetown Defeats Harvard 86-70

by JGD on Dec 23, 2009 2:10 PM EST in Game Summaries

Chris Wright scored a career-high 34 points on 13-22 shooting to lead the Hoyas past Harvard. Wright's point total was the highest in John Thompson III's era at Georgetown. Austin Freeman added 21 points while Greg Monroe collected his fourth double-double with 16 points and 16 rebounds. Jeremy Lin, Harvard's standout guard, led the Crimson with 15 points.

Surprisingly, the Hoyas were able to will themselves to victory even without standout scrub Nikita Mescheriakov.

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nationally ranked powerhouse

Georgetown is so awesome.

Casually.

by CasualHoya on Dec 23, 2009 3:38 PM EST reply actions

Remember the time we lost to ODU?

Neither do I

It's not you, it's me.

by JGD on Dec 23, 2009 3:43 PM EST reply actions

Apparently

So long as we don’t play ODU and/or at McDonough, we are unstoppable.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Dec 23, 2009 6:12 PM EST up reply actions

dark cloud

20 turnovers and 16 assists

Still WAY too sloppy

Casually.

by CasualHoya on Dec 23, 2009 3:50 PM EST reply actions

This is going to be a problem all year

If it hasn’t been corrected by now, then it’s not going to be at all. Going to pose real problems against teams that can actually convert those TOs.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Dec 23, 2009 6:13 PM EST up reply actions

Can someone please explain

how Wright got 34 points? Driving layups? 3s? Runners in the lane? Pulling rabbits out of his hat?

by 40-Year Old Man on Dec 23, 2009 3:55 PM EST reply actions

Taking 21 shots helps

by lordnick on Dec 23, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions

The Points

Wright had an assortment of layups, 3s, etc. Most of the layups came on the fastbreak off of the 6 steals he created/forced on the perimeter, others came on well executed backdoor cuts.

Casually.

by CasualHoya on Dec 23, 2009 4:34 PM EST reply actions

Hey sons of Harvard ...

your crimson lines didn’t hold s*#@t.

by John Coctostan on Dec 23, 2009 7:12 PM EST reply actions

Impressed

Even as a (loose) supporter of the other team, I have to admit I was ridiculously impressed. I didn’t even notice Jeremy Lin for the entire game.

I don’t know if you all normally move that smoothly, but it was beautiful. For a while there I forgot I was watching basketball and thought I was watching ballet.

by ivybb.byethost32.com on Dec 23, 2009 11:12 PM EST reply actions