Casual Ladies! Sugar Rodgers Leads Lady Hoyas To Sweet Sixteen With 79-57 Win Over The Maryland Terrapins
by CasualHoya on Mar 22, 2011 9:37 PM EDT
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What's the Sweet Sixteen without a little Sugar? via www.suffolknewsherald.com
The Georgetown Lady Hoyas, led by Sugar Rodgers' 34 points and 9 rebounds, stormed into the Sweet Sixteen of the 2011 Women's NCAA Tournament with a dominant 79-57 win over the Maryland Terrapins. The Hoyas shelled the Terrapins behind a stifling defensive effort and an offensive onslaught that saw Georgetown hit a VCU-like 13 three pointers.
Lady Hoyas are tremendous after The Jump:
In the first half, the Hoyas started the game hot and led 13-1 early behind an 8 point surge from Rodgers. The evil Turtles fought back to tie the game at 14, doing most of their damage at the free throw line as the Hoyas got into foul trouble early and often. That was as close as the Terrapins got, however, as the Hoyas closed the half on a 26-12 run to take a 40-26 lead at halftime and silence the crowd of ugly Maryland fans for good.
The Lady Hoyas crushed any hope the Terps had of getting back into the game with a quick 10-2 run to start the second half, and Georgetown led comfortably the rest of the way. I would have more to say about the second half, but the morons at ESPN2 decided to show me the fabulous upset of 2-seed Xavier by the Lady Cardinals of Louisville.
At the time of posting it is unclear whether the Maryland men's basketball team was in attendance at the game at the Comcast Arena. The Maryland men's basketball team was not invited to the NCAA Tournament, the NIT Tournament, or any other Tournament, so they certainly had some free time. Next up for Georgetown are the hated UConn Huskies, a team that has beaten the Hoyas twice already this season in games that were closer than the final scores indicated. The Lady Huskies, the #1 team in the country, are coached by Geno Auriemma. Geno Auriemma is a man.
Special shout-out to @GUPepBand, @GeorgetownWBB, and @wgtbsports for holding it down on the twittertubes all game long.
Lyrics to Georgetown fight song here.
The Georgetown Lady Hoyas are our only hope for salvation, and I'm happy to jump on the bandwagon. Follow me! Follow me to freedom!
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Absolutely incredible. Mcgwire’s roid rage.
Seeing Dan Patrick and Kenny Mayne at the desk made me nostalgic
I spent way too many hours watching the same sportscenter over and over back in the day. Back when they actually showed highlights…sigh
by rochesterhoya07 on Mar 23, 2011 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions
No men's team that I saw
This was glorious. The Hoya fan section outcheered UMCP all game.
One Casual roadtrip to Philly worked. We need a second.
by KeepItSaxa on Mar 22, 2011 9:53 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
At my bar
A Duke alum (he bragged about it to the bartender) was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct during the game.
Sniff.
It was beautiful.
"If Austin Freeman gets a pick at the hotel across the street, you go with him"
And me, If he asks I'll carry his luggage.
by PerryMcDonald'sRightCross on Mar 22, 2011 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
One other thing
At the half, UM came out to “Bad Romance”. The Hoyas came out to “Just Dance”.
by KeepItSaxa on Mar 22, 2011 10:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Needs
watch party and Hawaii 5-0 action
"If Austin Freeman gets a pick at the hotel across the street, you go with him"
And me, If he asks I'll carry his luggage.
by PerryMcDonald'sRightCross on Mar 22, 2011 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Hoya Saxa
Hopefully Sugar Rodgers can find time this summer to coach her male compatriots on shooting threes.
by The Dulcet Tones of Rich Chvotkin on Mar 22, 2011 9:58 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
You can't beat 'em
If you don’t play ’em.
by KeepItSaxa on Mar 22, 2011 10:12 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Heck
If West Virginia and Rutgers can pull the upset we’ll have 7 out of the 16.
And Duke is staring at three of them in the same regional (UCONN, Us and DePaul).
"If Austin Freeman gets a pick at the hotel across the street, you go with him"
And me, If he asks I'll carry his luggage.
by PerryMcDonald'sRightCross on Mar 22, 2011 10:07 PM EDT reply actions
Wish the men's team could execute like that.
#loweredexpectations
by DownTheHallFromHollis on Mar 22, 2011 11:41 PM EDT reply actions
These ladies were 100% confident before the game (based on interviews)...
and then backed it up on the court, (at least the 8 minutes I watched). The swagger that Sugar and co showed to a team playing a home game in the NCAA tourney was eye opening and refreshing as hell. And they just canned 3’s…beautiful. I hope to hell some of the guys were watching. The attitude of the team couldn’t literally be more different than the guys…sigh.
I remember having to work the snack bar at G’town women’s games back in the late 1990’s with others from my sports team and to call it pathetic is understatement of the year. Good for the girls and Coach Williams-Flournoy! Good luck against the UConnvicts.
"Before the answer was a 3, I was down in Georgetown with a Hoya chick, lawyer chick....."
by brandonbowmansfootistoobig on Mar 23, 2011 7:27 AM EDT reply actions
The worst patheticness
Was the UConn game in (I think) 1998. They were ranked #1, and McDonough was full – with fans of the fricking Huskies. Not fun to get outcheered in your own arena.
Especially if you’re in Philly and you’re on the fence – the women play a whirling dervish style of defense and are fun to watch. They’ll probably lose to UConn – but, if they win, you’ll want to say you were there.
there shouldn't be a damn fence
if you’re in philly, go to the damn game on sunday and support the lady hoyas
Casually.
Sugarbus to Philly!
After that last, unholy row,
I never, ever play, basketball now.
It joins a list of things I'll miss like fencing foils and lovely girls I'll never kiss.
UConn looked very beatable in their game against Purdue last night
Maybe they were just playing down to the level of their competition, but they couldn’t buy a bucket in the first half. If we bring the same level of intensity to the next game, this could be an upset for the ages.
PS- The one thing that worried me is that UConn repeatedly mauled Purdue’s players, clotheslining them, tossing them twenty feet across the court, with not a whistle to be found, except for ticky-tack stuff by Purdue.
UConn is beatable.
I was at both Georgetown-UConn games this season, and we can definitely beat them. They’re really good, yes, but we’ve been very successful at shutting down their offense. If we can just combine our defense with a little bit of dazzling offense (Sugar Rodgers averaged 30 points per game in our two tournament games so far, so I’m definitely looking at her), we can absolutely win.
But. The problem with UConn is that they have a lot of fans who follow them everywhere (a couple of Georgetown fans were told by other spectators at the regular season game that they could not sit somewhere unless they were cheering for Connecticut – in McDonough, our own damned arena) Soooo we need lots of Hoya fans in Philadelphia this weekend.
by clarinetsarethebest on Mar 23, 2011 1:07 PM EDT reply actions
President of Hoya Blue just informed me
that tickets and bus to the game, and possibly breakfast are all free with GoCard. I know I’d rather take that offer than do homework on a Sunday…let’s make some noise in Philly.
by J-Wall's Mom's Broom on Mar 23, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
they were advertising in leos today
seriously thinking about making the trip
by DownTheHallFromHollis on Mar 25, 2011 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions
do it and document
Good talk.
Casual Hoya
by Hire Esherick on Mar 25, 2011 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Casual Ladies!
My ladies are always casual.
"That is crap. It is unfair."
by Iwillpaytheway!! on Mar 23, 2011 3:10 PM EDT reply actions
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