This was supposed to be their year.  But with losses to Old Dominion University and University of Oregon, this year is looking to be quite a disappointment.  I found the loss to Old Dominion particularly amusing.  You see, every year, Georgetown plays a few games at its campus home court — McDonough Arena.  If you didn’t click on the link, you should.  McDonough resembles your high school gym.  They only play here a few times each year (instead of the MCI/Verizon center) because it’s not a money-maker.  Indeed, they hadn’t lost at McDonough since 1982, when UCONN came in and beat their asses.  So, basically, if Georgetown schedules somebody at McDonough, it must be a super-chump, because they figure nobody wants to watch the game.

Georgetown enters this Saturday’s national TV matchup against Duke looking nothing like the team that upset Duke last year.  I still think Georgetown will beat Duke for two reasons: 1. JT3 will rally his troops and get them playing the Georgetown basketball I love to see (combination of Princeton offense with great athletes), and 2. Duke is not very good.  I watched them the other night against Indiana, and they looked bad.  Of course, that didn’t stop Dicky V from extolling their virtues all night long (he actually found time to mention them yesterday during the excellent UNC-OSU game).  Greg Paulus is another Steve Wojohowski or Chris Collins, i.e. not good enough.

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