#5 Seed Here We Come: Notre Dame Outclasses Georgetown 78-64

Plenty to talk about, but couldn’t agree more about Freeman. What the heck was he doing out there at all? To say he was sluggish would be generous. It was clear he didn’t look or feel well. I saw him bolt to the locker room mid-game at least once, yet he kept coming in?!?! Love Freeman and hate to see him on the bench, but it couldn’t have been more clear team would have been better off letting him rest and get well.

Hollis was indeed a bright spot (save that unforgivable 3-point foul as the shot clock expired), and Jason seemed to have his 3-point stroke back. Too bad we couldn’t capitalize. Monroe just rocks. Why does it take us until midway through the second half and a 10+ point deficit to start going to him regularly?

it’s not easy being a georgetown fan. that said, for a big east game on saturday the attendance once again rivaled the team for most embarrassing. i was in the student section with kids asking us to sit down… ??

Is there any update on Freeman’s condition? We could really help ourselves out by a strong performance in West Virginia. Any chance it is a quick bug?

We Tivo’ed the game because my daughter was having a birthday party (I know, lame reason to neglect your fan duties). When I tuned in and saw that Austin wasn’t starting and the announcers didn’t know why, I went ballistic, yelling all kinds of threats against various suspects who might have done something to him. My husband said, “Could you check your facts before you threaten everybody at your alma mater and the girls find out you curse like you’ve done time?”

I ran in here to casualhoya to find out the skinny, saw the score and the commentary, stopped the threats and told him to turn the channel. My condolences to all who did watch, kind thoughts to Austin, congratulations to Hollis, and thanks to casual&co. for info. While I was spared the pain you all went through, I did see a close-up of Harringoady’s giant self-satisfied head at the open of the game. It’s flashing intermittently in front of my eyes as I post. (Can you get PTSD from watching basketball? Psych. majors? Alums practicing in the healing professions?)

I saw one hopeful post about the future, but I’m with the pessimists. We can chalk this game up to the flu, but my guess is we’re going nowhere in a hurry. They might pick up and get mad and beat somebody, but if we make it past one round of the dance, I’ll eat my hat. Why, oh why does it have to be like this? Really, why? I think Wright’s a walking problem and Monroe is devoted to underperforming, but they’re not BAD. Freeman walks on water as far as I’m concerned, Clark is a great surprise, Vaughan can be impressive. I’m still devoted to Coach. WHY??? (And why don’t we have a bench?)

And, could somebody tell me the exact deal with Summers last year (and was Sapp involved—please say no)? All the t.v. commentators (I hope they don’t call themselves journalists) make vague allusions, but nobody says what the real deal was. Somebody has to know. It was before I discovered the wonders of casualhoya, so I’m in the dark. Anybody help me out with a post here now or a link to an old post anywhere? (I’m too old to know how to mess with archives). Yep, the day is so bad, I have to content myself with old gossip.

Well, not only that. Now that there’s no G’town game, I have to go and pretend to watch my husband’s alma mater’s pathetic team play. It’s a lot like watching a high school game (not the DeMatha kind…). They don’t make it on t.v. often, so he’s really excited when they do. (I knew he would be a good husband b.c. if he could be so loyal to these losers, he’d stick by me no matter what condition I ended up in. So far, pretty true…). So really I did get screwed twice, Harrinfuckinggoady in my head and now having to watch this crappy game instead of a real one.

Gotta’ go. I had to ask my husband if he thought the “M” in DeMatha was capitalized, and he said, “Are you on casualhoya pontificating about the game you didn’t see? Get in here and watch with me. They’re doing pretty well…” Yep.

Got up this morning to catch the 9:00 AM (PST) Hoya game on CBS……..only to find Kentucky/Tennessee. Bad start to the day. I checked in on occasion and looked at the box score which had us shooting over 50% from both the field and 3 point land for most of the game……………while being down double digits. I guess a lot of second chance points for ND.

This team has talent and heart………but it needs a bit more workmanlike approach to these games (ND, Rutgers, USF). They need to make these guys feel like they don’t even belong on the same court from the first whistle, and just execute. But anything is possible in the tournament……and on Monday too!

I love 87Hoya too! And, of course, THE GLOBAL PHENOMENOM!!!

I spent too many years living outside the US (yes….I date myself) where it was impossible to stay on top of college hoops in general, no less the Hoyas. It is great to be able to get so granular these days on stuff that is so damn unimportant in the bigger picture. Anyway….gotta go…….need to check to see what Toby Gerhart ran the 40 in today!

With paranoia,

Seriously, this loss is good for our Big East Tourney seeding. Hopefully we can slide to 6th, play a night game and avoid a semifinal against Syracuse. The regular season doesn’t matter and we will be going to the NCAAs. Relax people!

This game and the horrible loses to Rutgers odu and South Florida are all on JTIII. He does not fire these players up at all. At the end of the ND game there was a bad non call that went against the Hoyas. The game was already lost. He needed to Get a T to show he has his players back, but he didnt. He put his tail between his legs and sat on the bench. Im calling him out! He needs to start showing more passion and then maybe his players will too. We are to soft and that stems from our coach. I dont care if our whole team fouls out. we need to make a statement. Oh and Chris Wright sucks ass

agreed. has JT3 ever gotten a T? i love him, he’s a great coach. you can tell he loves his players and puts them first. he’s usually exactly what this team needs, a calm steadfast leader, unshaken by anything. But, I think he’s the 900 lbs gorilla at this point. when you have this much talent and you are putting out these type of performances there’s something wrong. I’m not saying it’s his responsibility to motivate this team. But when things aren’t going well and the energy is lacking, JT3 needs to be the spark plug if no one else will. at first i though it was because he always had confidence in the players to get it together when it counted but enough is enough. I loved his quote after the cuse game but please JT3 show these players that even if they don’t want to win, that you refuse to lose.