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South Florida Bulls (14-7, 4-5) vs. #7 Georgetown Hoyas (16-4,6-3)

South Florida Bulls at Georgetown Hoyas, Feb 3, 2010 7:00 PM EST


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TV: MASN
Radio: ESPN980
Online: Bulls vs Hoyas coverage
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Location: Verizon Center, Washington DC

View from the Student Section - A Perspective from Campus:

The Verizon Center is where amazing happens. The staff not letting me bring in face paint (because small tubes of blue and gray paint at a Georgetown basketball are clearly a security threat) was a bit ridiculous, but standing 30 feet from the president was pretty cool. Hollis must have thought so too because of the obvious double-take he did when he realized the president was right behind him.

Standing out in the cold for over ten hours before game-time definitely gave me hypothermia and a cold for the next couple of days. I also got body paint on every article of clothing that I had on (all 5 layers). However it was totally worth it, and to see Scheyer cry up close was too perfect.

I can’t say that the student population is very excited for the USF trap game because of the other two home games this week, but we should be ready for this talented team. Assuming everything in DC does not shut down from the three inches of snow, I will be headed over to the phone booth to watch Austin "I’m the shit and I know it" Freeman and company shoot over 70% from the field again (I say this as I cross my fingers). Hoya Saxa!

View from the Court Side Seats - A Perspective from OldHoya:

This game has trap game written all over it, and OldHoya knows a thing or two about trap games.  They come once a season and take a team down from their highest highs, to their lowest lows.  Kind of like what the 1985 Villanova Wildcats felt like after their cocaine highs faded away, but for them it was more than one time a season.

Would not have thought it at the beginning of the season, but this could be a defining game for the 2009-10 Georgetown Hoyas.  USF won't provide the most physically challenging game for the Hoyas, but this will be a great test of our mental fortitude as we enter February.  I've been around too long to look past games like this on our schedule, and faithfully subscribe to the ONE GAME AT A TIME motto.  I also like a nice glass of pinot noir after work.

View from the Sportsbook (via DonBest) - A Perspective from Vegas:

The Line: Georgetown -12.5.  Over/Under 138.

In the words of David Guetta (featuring Akon), 'damn you's a sexy chick.

But just how sexy?  12.5 points sexy?  Let's take a look inside the numbers...

 - USF is 8-4 ATS when playing against a team with a winning record, and 5-0 ATS when playing against a team with a winning record after 15 games.

 - Georgetown is 7-7 ATS when playing against a team with a winning record, and 0-3 ATS after scoring 80 points or more.

Georgetown will win this game, but the pick is South Florida +12.5.  The Hoyas will keep lightning rod Dominique Jones under control, but he's too good not to get his, and I suspect some late outburst in garbage time will get USF the cover.  The final score will be something like Georgetown 79 - USF 68.

On the season:

The Hoyas are currently 9-7 ATS (that's 'Against The Spread' for those just tuning in).

Georgetown is 3-2 ATS on the Road, 4-5 ATS at Home, and 2-0 on Neutral Courts.

Casual Hoya is 10-6 ATS. 

www.CasualHoya.com : Where Your Money Stays And Plays.

Casually.

Check back throughout the day for updated media coverage and during the game for updates.

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Comments

The Hoyas Do Not Win Conference Games By Double Digits

Except for that Rutgers debacle. I too must take SOUTH FLORIDA +12.5 and hope I can put some more space between myself and .500. Currently I am 9-7 ATS.

Pre-Game Articles

Coming off a big win, Georgetown Hoyas can’t look past South Florida – washingtonpost.com
As he does after every game, Thompson on Monday urged his players to put whatever emotions lingered from the Duke victory aside and focus on the next opponent. To avoid a Pitt-style upset, Georgetown can’t ease up on defense against South Florida, and Jones in particular. And the Hoyas can’t have a lapse on offense, as they did in the final minutes against Duke.

  Hoyas host Bulls in Big East tussle | abcactionnews.com
USF is clearly playing its best ball of the season right now, as three straight wins have enabled the team to improve a dreadful league record to 4-5. The Bulls are 14-7 overall, and after back-to-back overtime victories over Providence and Seton Hall, they got the best of Pittsburgh on Sunday by a 70-61 final. 

Take the Bulls and the Points

Hoyas will win this one 77-70…

the real question

is do you take the over on 500 students, or under? I think this should be a new line we set each game.

and by 500. i mean 250 for this game
If that is the case the students are pathetic

We have 5 home games left for the #7 team in the nation. If you can’t show up now, don’t bother showing up at all.

I agree with JGD.....

showing by students has been pretty poor this year…. especially for Noon starts on Saturday…… 1/2 of them stroll in with 5 mins to go int he 1st half……. Get with the program!!!!…..

I can promise you

That if JGD were still a student he would get a safe ride to the game and not puke until at least the second half.

But at least he would make it......

… handcuffs and all……..

Isn't that how it got GUTS bus got it's name....
I can see it now.....

Standing in line at miller lite island and meeting JGD and having him ask what kind of beverage I like, order it from the staff and take off with my beer and leave me with the bill!!!!

do they not run the school buses anymore?

I think if they’ve stopped that, they should restart it. That would encourage students to show up in larger numbers and on time.

buses

they cancelled it because students would leave the games early to catch them, since more people took them home then to the game

busing them to rosslyn and taking metro is better

I agree

We better have two full student sections for the Hoya Saxa’ing

guess the

Under takes it

Still running

They have buses to rosslyn metro still but judging from what I have heard on campus a Wednesday night game isn’t a good time…I hope I’m wrong. I’ll be there.

Cahill is one of the refs tonight

Feeling really good about my USF +12.5 pick.

buffalo tenders basket at verizon - $14 with a water

newcastle in president's box

NO STUDENTS

Probably 100 kids

Douche bags
i apologize

On behalf of my bandwagon classmates

presidential box spread

Are you talking the blog up to DeGoia?
Freeman 23 points away from 1,000

Will we ever have a 2,000 point scorer in JT3 era?

presidential box hot dog

Any Duke fans in the box?

Any him why they were in there Saturday.

clark on jones
lack of students

Draining the energy out of me

fan trap game

I guess

Students are idiots

Whenever I meet the student that writes from the student perspective I am going to punch him in the face

that may

Be why they don’t show up

view from presidential box

Bang bang

Freeman drive and Clark 3

Would love to see some defense

Whenever they are ready

Oldhoya

Aggressively working the refs

Document what he is saying
Even better

Jt3 drops an f bomb at the refs over missed shot clock violation

Fellas

Don’t lose this game

espn360 works pretty well on my computer

Are you going to the hive tonight to see Jeff play?
Austin!

4 point play. Making our MVP decision look good.

freeman equals mvp
Sims

Outstanding inolvement. Always the first off the bench.

2nd presidential newcastle

Wright still scoreless

Need 10 from him ASAP

Greg pretty right hand

South Florida not great at catching

inspector gadget
Bah, beaten to the joke
gogo gadget arms
On campus

Appears that unlike gtown, there’s a weight room at usf. Also might be an on campus tattoo shop

USF begging Monroe to beat them
using gregs size
MASN

Terrible announcers

is vaughn hurt?
revitalization of USF

Tell us more, Mr.MASN!

from the presidential box

We suck.
Clark is awesome.
Newcastle is Casual.

Chris Wright

Playing true PG. This is encouraging.

First half MVP

Is this a joke? Monroe blocks 2 dunks and has finished 3 times with his right hand?

clark is playing

Tremendous defense

Clark

His defense is visibly frustrating jones. This pleases oldhoya

throw me a bone

No longer watching game…what’s the damn score?

And keep updating score every 5 mins or so.

33-22 4min left
Wright still scoreless

Nervous

Nando's

Oldhoya believes that the dress like a hoya contest is an abomination

im pretty

Sure one of the jerseys they use says Riley on the back. Recruiting tool for DaShonte Judas Riley?

Monroe

14 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks. Guess he wants to be the MVP

last minute

AWFUL

this team cannot blow people out!!!

So frustrating!!!

Except for

Depaul, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Duke, Lafayette, Mt St Mary’s, Savannah State, American and Harvard

I won't even discuss anyone except

Depaul, Hall and Duke.

RE: Depaul – Irrelevant
RE: Seton Hall – Irrelevant
RE: Duke – we were up by 23. What did we win by?

Duke

Were you remotely concerned about the outcome after the first 5 min of the second half? Who else are you expecting us to blow out? We beat Pitt at Pitt by 8. And if Depaul and Seton Hall are irrelevant, why do you care if we don’t blow out South Florida

This team

Has issues – depth and turnovers come to mind. But it can beat teams handily. The 2007-2008 Hoyas had an awful time blowing teams out, not a problem this year.

Box Score

SOUTH FLORIDA BULLS
STARTERS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Dominique Jones, G 2-8 0-2 3-4 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 7
Toarlyn Fitzpatrick, F 3-4 0-0 0-2 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 6
Jarrid Famous, F-C 2-5 0-0 0-0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 4
Chris Howard, G 0-3 0-2 2-4 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 2
Mike Mercer, G 0-4 0-1 0-0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0
BENCH FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Alex Rivas, C 2-2 0-0 0-0 1 3 0 0 0 2 1 4
Anthony Crater, G 1-2 1-2 0-0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
10-28 1-7 5-10 6 14 6 3 1 4 6 26
35.7% 14.3% 50.0%
 
GEORGETOWN HOYAS
STARTERS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Greg Monroe, C 7-9 0-0 0-1 2 8 0 1 2 3 1 14
Austin Freeman, G 4-6 2-2 1-1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 11
Jason Clark, G 2-4 1-2 0-0 0 4 1 1 0 1 1 5
Julian Vaughn, F 1-3 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3
Chris Wright, G 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 6 1 0 1 1 0
BENCH FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Hollis Thompson, F 1-2 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
15-25 3-6 2-4 2 15 8 3 2 8 7 35
60.0% 50.0% 50.0%

Halftime

For those not lucky enough to be in the gym, you all just missed a 6 minute step shoe by GUST. Wow

deal or no deal

If howie mandel was dead he would be spinning in his grave at how we play this game.

And they dragged it out so long they forgot to introduce the team after halftime.

halftime entertainment

Brutal

Gu step team

Half time entertainment. So glad the Prez wasn’t here.

Wright on the board

8 more points

2 quick fouls on Monroe

3 for the game. Unclear if he was dropped on his head as a child

Matchup Zone

Forgot to match up with one of USF’s 5th player

Wright

4 points. 6 more to go.

Georgetown up 39-31 with 18 to go

"Georgetown Changing up Defenses"

Also forgetting to guard people. Very upset right now

We are legitimately the worst team

Defending the screen I have ever, ever seen

39-35, 16 to go

Want to kill someone

Hopefully our students get the noise up

Oh wait, our students are a bunch of front running douche bags who only show up for games against ranked teams.

couldnt

Agree more. We suck. The team should be pissed.

I need an explanation from someone

If we’re supposed to be an elite team, we’re supposed to have an elite crowd. 3 of the 4 classes at Georgetown lived through last year, do they realize its very rare to have a team this good? Do they remember last year?

i was a freshman

And it was awful. Every student with a ticket should be here right now. Its a privilege to watch a team that conceivably could be top five by weeks end

Got Into the Habit of Not Going

When we sucked last year?

Does that make any sense?
I'm trying here.
Not your fault

Unless you are a dipshit that has student tickets and didn’t go

Couldn't get off of work?

Shit, I am a bad fan.

no excuse

Different team.

arena is silent
I'll say it again

If you are a student sitting at home right now, you should be ashamed

MASN

television now on mute after hearing how great of a coach stan heath is for doubling greg monroe.

These fucking guys are BEGGING for an upset!

MASN commentators

May be the worst I’ve ever heard. These guys are complete dipshits.

41-35 14:45 to go
2nd half

Austin looks like sophomore Austin. There I said it

Clark's arms are ridiculous
In the presidential box

Is a cooler the size of my bathtub filled with newcaslte and bud light.

See you saturday as we try to break a one-game losing streak.

42-42 with 12:30 left

About to throw up

just did
Ok we're going to be fine

Needed that TV timeout. Stadium seems louder

female sex parts

is what we are playing like

Epic turd

Of a 2nd half. Is this God’s punishment for me dissing the step team?

Monroe missed 1 foot layup
He only misses the easy ones
It's like Monroe forgets where he is for 5 straight minutes

Then wakes up and remembers who he is

In the Presidential Box

Alcohol service does not end at the 15 minute mark in the second half. About to start double-fisting.

Don't get kicked out
46-44 USF 10 min left
PLEASE STOP PLAYING ZONE

We suck at zone

This team deserves to lose

Completely phoning it in this half.

settling for jumpers

Is going to kill us!!!!!

50-44 USF 8 to go
52-44 USF 7:52 left

Georgetown just took a timeout

9 points in 12 minutes

Pretty much says it all

Let's see what this team is made of
why is this game tied?

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Oh we're down 8
Hey Greg

Thanks for picking up 2 fouls in 10 seconds, killing all of our momentum. Hey Austin, thanks for reminding me how bad you were last year. Hey Chris, please score 6 points right now.

more noise

For the dance cam

We're not going to lose
2nd Half

USF up 26-9. Mark of champions.

End is nigh

Dude in a marthas vineyard hoodie on the dance cam.

bipolar

This team is

Crowd getting into it

52-48 7:17 to go

Prophecy

CW rips off 8 in a row.
Game tied.
Victory.

Quick 4

Here we go

Sun setting on Mission Bay

Once it is dark no one will see me chain a cinderblock to myself and jump off the pier if we lose this game.

What the F is going on???

We're fine
crowd awake

Good feeling.

56-50 USF 5:20 to go
Gotta play some defense right now
56-52 with 4:36 to go

Monroe didnt convert 3 point play. Also shaved his beard.

Even if the team is fine, Rich might have a heart attack
mvp

team needs CASUAL headbands

56-52 3:54 to go

Greg going to the line. He is 0-3 there so far. Will punch Jerelle if his lane violation costs us the game

bench

Wasn’t this the game that Hollis was supposed to have 18+ in?

Like my arse hoyas

like my f’king arse

56-54

Here we go

57-54 4th on Monroe

3:29 to go. Have a bad feeling Wright is shooting a 3 here.

MASN announcers

suggesting Monroe should come out of game.

My ears are bleeding.

usf +12.5

FREE MONEY.

57-55 3:15 to go

Have to D up

Monroe fouled out of game
Hate John Cahill
John Cahill : Gren Monroe :: Joey Crawford : Tim Duncan
utter disgrace of a call
Put Henry in the game

Can block shots and has 5 fouls

Wright missed a 3

I have ESP

2 FTs and 1 Stop
HOLY FUCK HIT A FREE THROW
That's all she wrote

The dreaded trap game claims another victim.

Jones

Openly taunting the gtown fans

As he should
Where's Jason Williams when you need him?
Missing free throws

is fun

Dear

Students of Georgetown: you should be ashamed at the student attendance. Support your team regardless of who we play. Its 2 hours of your life. I don’t care what the weather is on Saturday. Get your ass to the Verizon Center.

agree completely.....

that was the worst attendance i have seen for a team ranked in the top 10 playing on its home court……..

Yea, I am embarassed.

Walking back to campus and to my dorm I shot everyone I saw an evil glance, especially the people who came up to me saying, “We won right?” One student like me can only do so much. AHHHHHHHH! I am so upset right now.

Anyone who wants to debate

common themes in our losses is either blind or just plain stupid.

FTs: 11-22 (50%)
TOs: 15
Bench: 2 pts, 2 pts, 3 tos
Chris Wright: 8 pts

**

Bench: 2 pts, 2 assists, 3 tos.

Free Throws

Monroe seems to be pausing too much before taking his. He has good form, he should be taking them with more confidence. This pausing leads to doubting and choking.

Vaughn’s free throws have been awful, he really needs to practice them more.

Freeman should look at some video of what he was doing earlier on in the year.

Henry Sims needs to become a part of the bench rotation. He has some fire in his belly, and can create some plays rather than be a place holder, like Bennimon and Thompson.

Wright needs to get more sleep the night before the game or take a 5-hour energy drink or something.

JGD - do you still want me to name 7 teams better than the Hoyas....????

or are you too busy like me throwing up at the TV…….

this has such an awful feel to it….. I am starting to feel the hauntings from last year…. Mescheriakov’s Ghost?

The general theory of Wrightivity

remains intact. That assured knowledge is the only shred of upside I can salvage here.

Students who went to Duke and not tonight? All 70% of you should be f’king ashamed of yourselves, gloryhunting toerags. Or was it just the lack of white house internships on offer?

Arse.

The general theory of Wrongtivity...

go back and look at all the posts since the Duke game…and all the focus on what sort of #2 seed we desrve in the NCAAs.,….. and the appropriate ranking in the top 10…. IT IS ALL B*LLS**T…… we have to make the tournament field frist….and show improvemetn as March draws closer…..

I am starting to get a sick feeling with rememberances of last year….. it was awful…..

Please Coach Thompson:
(a) fix the turnover issue
(b) find a way to get the bench involved and gain confidence against Rutgers and Providence
© play some full court press every now and then to mess with the other teams heads

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