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Last year, Sims improved both his points and rebounds totals, averaging 3.6 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 0.7 blocks while shooting 57.8% from the field and 50% from the free throw line. Henry showed lots of potential in non-conference play and had some decent performances in the Big East against Pittsburgh (6 points, 5 rebounds), Villanova (5,5), and Marquette(7,3). On the whole, however, while showing improvement over his first two years, Henry has left Hoya fans wanting much more out of his play.

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On December 29th, when Jason Clark stepped onto the floor for the first game of the Big East conference slate, he was shooting 45% from three and averaging a little under fourteen points per game. A month earlier, he had single-handedly outscored Missouri in a wild overtime game and had drilled at least three 3-pointers in 6 out of 12 non-conference games.  Delusional blogs were quibbling over nicknames for the unstoppable, hot-shooting trio of Clark, Austin Freeman and Chris Wright.  In the remaining 20 games, however, Clark had at least three 3-pointers only three times. During the conference schedule, he shot only 30% from deep and scored averaged 10.4 PPG after a number of uneven performances. When Freeman hit a prolonged slump and Wright went down with injury, Clark seemed powerless to right the ship. Aside from a nice 23 point game in the blowout Big East loss to UConn, Clark posted point totals of 10,7,11, and 5 in Wright's absence... and managed just 9 points in the VCU debacle that ended Georgetown's season.

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Last year, Hollis Thompson was asked to play out of position and guard opposing teams' power forwards with his slight 205 lb. frame and actually did remarkably well in this role. Thompson grabbed a solid 16% of the rebounds on the defensive glass, finishing the third best on the team after Julian Vaughn and Henry Sims.  On the offensive end, Hollis had an up and down season, reaching double digits a dozen times but being held to five points or fewer almost as often (10). There was no change in his performance in OOC vs. BE or as a starter vs. coming off the bench, or even when Chris Wright was injured or not injured.  He was consistently inconsistent. His breakout game was in the NCAA Tournament loss to VCU, where he scored a career high 26 points.  Hopefully this gave us a glimpse of what he has in store for us this year.

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Nate Lubick arrived on campus as a consensus top 50 recruit and was certainly the most productive of the freshman class, averaging four points and nearly four rebounds in over nineteen minute per game.  Lubick shot 53.8% from the field, 67.5% from the line and 23.5% from three.  Inserted into the starting lineup following a Georgetown win over Seton Hall on January 18th, Lubick made his first start on January 26th in the Hoyas blowout win over St. John's and started the final thirteen games of the Hoyas season in which the Hoyas went 7-6.

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Look Back: Aaron Bowen came to Georgetown after a prep year at Quality Education Academy in North Carolina where he helped them win a national title. He originally committed to Marquette prior to his prep year, but decommitted after the assistant coach who recruited him left the program. Last year, Bowen played sparingly due to a shoulder injury and received a medical redshirt so he will have four years of eligibility remaining. In the seven games Bowen appeared in, he averaged one point and .6 rebounds in just over three minutes per game. His shooting stats should probably be thrown out the window, however, seeing as his shooting shoulder was injured.

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Here's some math for you on this beautiful All Saints Day:  Kim Kardashian reportedly received $18mm for that wedding to Kris Humphries.  The marriage lasted 72 days, which equates to approximately $250,000 per day, and nearly $10,500 per hour.  That's Eliot Spitzer money right there.  Today our player profiles engine keeps running with a look at John Caprio.

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As a walk-on, Caprio played sparingly last year. He played in four contests (Tulane, Utah St, Loyola (MD), and St. John's) and only totaled six minutes of playing time in those blowout wins.  Caprio scored a total of 2 points, both coming from the freethrow line against St. John's.  And they were pretty.

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Happy Halloween everybody!  It was a down year as far as I'm concerned for costumes.  Aside from the usual "slutty (anything)", I didn't really notice anything truly clever out there, but that's probably because I spent the weekend in my mother's basement testing the new triple double oreos. Our player profile parade marches on today with a look at perhaps the most important player on the team, sophomore point guard Markel Starks.

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If Jabril Trawick is the new heart of the Hoyas, Markel Starks is the face of the team. He's got a world class smile and he's the vocal leader of the Hoyas, always up and cheering on the bench. He seems to check all the boxes for a team leader, but his mettle will seriously be tested this year. After flashes of brilliance in Kenner League last year, I was ready for adorn him the "Stark Plug" for his ability to create instant offense off the bench – but he more often looked very much a timid, freshman point guard learning a complicated system. He had a few nice moments, 4-5 from three against Syracuse including a huge 6 points in the JT3s first Carrier Dome victory. When Chris Wright went down (and Austin Freeman's production staggered), Markel was steady, but he wasn't able to jump start a lifeless offense. However, the wizards at Hoya Prospectus were able to pull this positive (for Markel and Hollis Thompson) out of the numbers in their season recap: "the bench collapsed at the end of the season, with Henry Sims, Jerrelle Benimon and Vee Sanford all unable to provide any help; only Thompson and an improving Markel Starks could be counted upon."

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Mikael Hopkins was a huge coup on the recruiting trail for the Georgetown Hoyas.  A consensus top 100 prospect from local power house DeMatha, his commitment was the second of the year for the Hoyas and lifted the hopes of the Hoya faithful who had just seen two prospects (Tyrone Johnson and Rakeem Christmas) choose Big East rivals (Villanova and Syracuse) over the summer.  Hopkins was the first major recruit to join the Hoyas impressive 2011 recruiting class, and chose the Hoyas over Kansas, Maryland, Miami, WV, and Ohio State.

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