UCONN/G'Town

[BFieldHusky]

Interesting game Saturday as you have two very talented but wildly inconsistent teams. It has been documented about G'Town losing to Radford, Monmouth and UNC-Asheville, but they played Maryland close, Villanova close, beat Wisconsin, and really took it to Xavier on Tuesday at Xavier.

I think it is hard to predict this game because of how inconsistent both teams have played. I think we are quicker than G'Town, but they have more size down low. Think the key to the game is how we play offensively. If we play passively like we have for stretches, I think it is a long day. Really need Hamilton/Purvis to get going.

G'Town board feels they don't have a good defender for Hamilton.

 

[MexicoHusky]

Maybe Hamilton gets his poop in group

 

[BFieldHusky]

As mysteries go, Georgetown is arguably the more unknowable of the two. For most of November and a half of December, we were convinced Georgetown was a top-25-ish team. It was, after all, led by one of the nation's top-10 guards (D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera), complemented by a super-versatile sophomore breakout candidate (Isaac Copeland), who himself was merely the tip of a maturing sophomore-class iceberg. The Hoyas played Maryland tight in College Park. They pushed Duke to a 2-point margin in Madison Square Garden. They had plenty of flaws, and, sure, the season-opening loss to Radford wasn't ideal. But the signs were there.

Then came back-to-back home losses to Monmouth and UNC-Asheville, which banished Georgetown and its middling efficiency numbers from the perceptual radar altogether.

And now, a month later, the Hoyas beat Xavier -- at Xavier -- 81-72. It was one of the best road wins of the 2015-16 season. So: Was that real? Was it a fluke? Did the Hoyas get hot for one night? Or are they genuinely improved enough that, say, their 71 percent defensive rebounding rate against one of the nation's best rebounding teams should be considered legitimate?

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...g-out-georgetown-and-indiana-may-take-a-while

 

[MexicoHusky]

Recent Interview with Smith-Rivera. He talks about upcoming match-up. Seems like a pretty smart dude.