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#2 Villanova Wildcats (20-1, 9-0) vs. #7 Georgetown Hoyas (16-5, 6-4)

Villanova Wildcats at Georgetown Hoyas, Feb 6, 2010 12:00 PM EST


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TV: ESPN
Radio: ESPN980
Online: Wildcats vs Hoyas coverage
Time: 12:00 PM EST
Location: Verizon Center, Washington DC

View from the Student Section - A Perspective from Campus:

Well, that sucked, a lot. Students sucked for not coming out, but we lost that game on the court by giving them the win. However, harping on losses is so 2008-2009. I am looking forward to winning against Scottie and his posse.

For all of the shit that I am receiving from Villanova fans saying that they are no longer worried about this game, they should be. Our players are pissed. The good thing is, unless roofs are collapsing, I think that the turnout should be better for this game than South Florida. This game will go a long way to determining our season, and though students do not care enough to go to all Big East games, they are aware that this is an important one.

I will make the treacherous trek to the Verizon Center, even if the only store open for miles is Towne Liquor. Yes, I have confirmation from the owners, Towne Liquor will be open for students to aid in their post-game partying, or post-game depression (hopefully the former). Here’s to a good turnout, even with the risk of hypothermia. Hoya Saxa!

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

OldHoya made the mistake of trekking to Philadelphia to take in the Nova loss and will obviously be front and center for this game. As the loyal readers know, Nova boasts OldHoya's least favorite fans and he takes particular pleasure in beating them.

Last game was rough on the vocal cords as OldHoya was on his feet for half the game. There's no way that the Big East assigns that clown Cahill to GTown again, is there?

This snow won't help anything, but OldHoya is making the trek from his Georgetown home and expects nothing less from the student section.

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

The line: Georgetown -1.5.  Over/Under 151.5.

Factors that the wiseguys in Vegas have clearly considered here in making the Hoyas the chalk:

1) The last time Georgetown played in a big game like this was just one week ago when they pasted Duke ay Verizon as a 1 point dog.

2) The loss to USF was a blip that will actually ensure the Hoyas play better against Nova.

Factors that the wiseguys do not know but we here at THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON do:

1) Jerrelle Benimon loaded up on 2 burger madnesses on Friday.

2) Jason Clark went to Hooters on Friday.  

The pick is Georgetown -1.5.  Wait...what!  You're taking the Hoyas in spite of those two awful omens?  Why wouldn't you take the points and #2 team in the nation in front of what might be a non-existent crowd at Verizon during the snowstorm from hell?

1) Georgetown needs this game more.

2) The way Georgetown played against Nova in the 2nd half of the prior game was pretty encouraging.

3) I hate Scottie Reynolds.

Final Score: Hoyas 77 - Nova 71.

On the season:

The Hoyas are currently 9-8 ATS (that's 'Against The Spread' for those just tuning in).

Georgetown is 3-2 ATS on the Road, 4-6 ATS at Home, and 2-0 on Neutral Courts.

Casual Hoya is 11-6 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 real question

Is the spread between the announced (likely 12000) and the actual attendance (likely 500, including teams). Metro is running every 30 minutes and streets haven’t been plowed

stay hot, dc government

ALL SYSTEMS GO!

The Irish Channel is OPEN FOR BUSINESS today.

burger king is NOT
The Irish Channel Serves a Delightful Breakfast

I am also proud to announce that the first 24 people who come to the Channel to pick up their head band will also receive, at no extra charge, A DOUBLE STUF OREO.

is there a codeword to identify yourself?

what lies in the shadow of the statue?

tremendous LOST reference

likely lost on those less casual.

This is gonna be fun
MajesticOne30 @JCDeuceUNO says “huggin every fan that come to the game”
I am 10-7 ATS

I will likely be 10-8 when this is over, but I just can’t bear not to take GEORGETOWN -1.5. Giving points in a blizzard is unwise. Be we need this. Bad.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

Streams are crossisng

Who knew that people actually read this stupid blog?

verizon

trapped in my apartment

those are people on the far right
breakfast

people still there?

when are you going to verizon?

amazing.
How is this game being played?!?!?!

I’m devastated. Stranded under ~20+ inches in Arlington 1 mile from CLOSED East Falls Church Metro (shocker…all above ground stations are closed). Would have hiked to station in a heartbeat, but now have no way of getting to game. There aren’t even any 4-wheel drives attempting to pass residential streets in this area.

How is this game being played? Can’t believe they’re able to transport both teams, Verizon staff, etc. to the stadium for the game.

Am PRAYING I’m not like the thousands of others in the area who have already lost power. Already painful enough to have to watch this one on TV. Won’t be able to bear power loss.

Let’s go Hoyas! Here’s hoping we have some semblence of a home court advantage among those able to get to the stadium. Did manage to email my tickets to Hoya fans living within the city with below ground Metro access. Hope it helps!

I'm totally in the same situation

Wish I could have gone to this game. This blows.

If I lived in the district I’d have gone. :(

GET TO THE IRISH CHANNEL

Word from the Channel is the the Casual Pregame is a huge success and that there are even CHICKS there!

What more to the life is there than booze, headbands and chicks?

how about wins against Big East foes
On TV

Chris Wright just banged home 5 of 6 threes while JT3 was being interviewed. Feeling good about today

not a good omen

doris burke calling the game on espn

well, well, well- JTIII just told Doris that key to game is trunovers

what??????

Just heard announcement at verizon: “game is sold out”

how many people are in the vc right now?
no ushers

No ushers. Section 100 row h great place to watch them.

In casualness

Are you going to get a hug from Austin after the game?

Also, how many people there?

Verified

Sleepyhoya loves an early morning beer

Student section

TREMENDOUS TURNOUT. Loudly booing nova. Excellent

tremendous student section turnout

Casualhoya.com GETS RESULTS!

HERE WE GO MOTHERFUCKERS
great student turnout

No ushers

Students

Very impressed, even from on TV

Students on campus

Were excited about the headbands…or maybe that’s just my friends.

Sims

In the student section dancing. Love him

GAME ON!

Hoyas win tip.

Doom imminent.

Nancy Pelosi and DeGioia in President's Box

Wright

Needs to hit some shots

Pena's shorts

What’s the deal with those short shorts. Does he think he’s playing soccer?

Not playing well so far...

hopefully we start playing better

receommended

check out www.areyouwatchingthis.com

you can set it up and the damn thing will alert you whenever there is a big game on and tell you which channel it is on wherever you are

3 for Wright

7 more. 7 more. 7 more.

CW hits a 3

7 to go.

then he smack talked Doris

love it

1 more to the bonus

Let’s hit some FTs

Jay Wright is Hot!!!!

Excellent suit

Jay Wright not thrilled

Snow on his suit, fouls being called.

can someone who is there...

give us a read on what the actual attendance is?

Im not there but looks like

a couple thousand, maybe 4-5 K, based on crowd shots on tv

6000 to guess

Upper deck actually open and has some people in it. Verizon was announcing it as a sellout

Headbands

So awesome but cutting off circulation. Might need xl for the next go round

super bowl shuffle

Wear it around your neck like Jim McMahon

roys

Comfy

Nicely done Hollis

Way to make up for the missed three!

Then turned it over
Holy shit

Austin’s shot is so pure

Austin Freeman!!!! MVP I am convinced!
costanza

Peddling jenny craig

But when is he going to start hawking the Chinese cure to baldness?

Stunning analysis by Doris:

People are showing up late.

5 for wright

halfway there!

attendence

They will announce it at 15k.it is solid. I give full credit to the blog for getting people out.

doris burke

would you?

maybe if she didnt talk.

id prefer Darth Vader to that “take me seriously as a woman” tone

Strong

Lordnick fills the screen and flashes headbands and some great student signs.

screw it. going home

Peroni stand is closed and I am thirsty.

Defense

VERY disciplined, plugging lanes and sticking in spots.

Love it

We are getting the calls. Jay Wright will soil himself before the end of it

Best sign?

Camera only caught it briefly but some student has a sign that references nova’s cocaine use. Really need details

best sign

Even Snow can’t stoP Monroe

section 118 ftw

(First) T for JW
they're calling it on the bench
around the big east

johnnies up 25-17 on WVU w 5 to go in 1st

there he is...

The wrecking ball showed up!

Monroe

Can’t pick up fouls 40 ft from the basket. I don’t care if it wasn’t legit . Do not guard out there

One thing about the Princeton offense I hate

Centers 30 feet from the basket getting pointless fouls defending guards for ne reason

That's not offense

Just terrible screen defense

Well its JT3's system

b/c this always happened with Hibbert too

Yep

Just not the offense’s fault

Need Sims to give us some fouls and minutes
cant have CW or Monroe get

foul number 3

agreed

i don’t know why sims isn’t in there CLOTHESLINING reynolds every time he drives to the hoop

Scottie turning back into freshman Scottie
Incidentally

Jason Clark is better than Jesus

Longer arms too.
around the big east

johnnies up 31-19 on wvu w 2 to go in 1st

This team

Is either the best team or the most mediocre team in the country. And I have no clue which one it will be on any night. It’s amazing.

they are good in big games

with exception of tough road game (Syracuse) and bad when they get distracted and not focused for the game, ala ODU (middle of finals) and USF, (middle of week in between Duke & Nova).

That bodes well for the tournament

I think you’re right

TV

We seem to play much better in games on “real” TV (CBS, ESPN) than on other TV (MASN, ESPN360, etc.).

huge!

‘Thunder Road’ now playing at bar in NOLA.

Jay Wright

Ain’t a beauty, but in that suit, hey, he’s all right.

Holisssssssssssss
hoyas

look great. really do.

hopefully we dont let them get any momentum

going into the half

Close this half up 20 please

don’t get sloppy

jerrelle

why not shoot that?

what?

are you nuts? he stinks from 3

nova box score

VILLANOVA WILDCATS
STARTERS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Corey Fisher, G 2-4 0-0 3-4 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 7
Antonio Pena, F 3-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6
Scottie Reynolds, G 1-5 1-1 2-2 0 0 3 0 0 2 2 5
Corey Stokes, G 1-2 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Reggie Redding, G 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2
BENCH FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Dominic Cheek, G 2-3 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 4
Maalik Wayns, G 1-3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2
Mouphtaou Yarou, F-C 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
Taylor King, F 0-1 0-1 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0
Maurice Sutton, F-C 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Isaiah Armwood, F 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
12-25 2-6 5-6 2 7 4 4 1 11 15 31
48.0% 33.3% 83.3%

Great first half

Just awesome

hoyas

GEORGETOWN HOYAS
STARTERS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Jason Clark, G 6-6 4-4 1-1 0 1 1 2 0 3 2 17
Austin Freeman, G 4-6 2-3 2-2 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 12
Greg Monroe, C 2-4 0-0 3-4 0 3 1 1 1 3 2 7
Chris Wright, G 2-6 1-4 0-0 0 3 2 0 0 0 1 5
Julian Vaughn, F 0-0 0-0 4-4 2 2 4 0 0 1 2 4
BENCH FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Hollis Thompson, F 1-3 1-2 2-2 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 5
Jerrelle Benimon, F 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
15-26 8-13 12-13 2 9 14 4 1 10 10 50
57.7% 61.5% 92.3%

pansies

HAWKS – WIZARDS GAME IN DC POSTPONED BY SNOW

Also

What an unbelievable showing by the fans. The place is so loud on TV. Students you are forgiven

live look-in....chelsea handler poolside at the setai in miami

NO LEAD IS SAFE

Also: the beer lines today are a disaster.

scottie

only a matter of time before he gets hot and destroys us

Starting to feel it
we're forcing him to take tough shots
scottie heating up

Going home. Don’t want to see this season-ending implosion.

"this is not something jay wright was not expecting"

Doris is awful

bad foul

though at least we hurt him

SWEEP THE LEG.
scottie a smart player

guess that happens when you’ve been in college for 10 YEARS

Wright to Scottie: “when I’m 30, I don’t want to be anything like you!”

verizon is run by idiots

Literally spending entire halftime and first five minutes of second half in beer line. If the cut off sales before I get to the front I will BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND.

Scottie is just gunning

Living and dying by him. Jason needs to D up

drinking heavily

reasons i feel nervous up 15 with 16 to play…

1)

2)

are you kidding me?

Idiot nova fans talking to bartenders about 15 min cutoff. WHY ARE YOU REMINDING THEM?

NEED MORE

7 for wright.

Wright has to be smarter

Cannot pick up a foul like that

around the big east

johnnes awful.

wvu up 3 w 10 to go.

small measure of solace

Gal running miller lite stand asked me where I’ve been this season. Didn’t have the heart to say I’ve been at the peroni guy.

#10

when does monroe start to get involved?

Monroe needs to take over

Still way too pensive.

In the bonus

Free throw time

Nova has about 500 team fouls

How come none of their guys are in foul trouble like Wright? Does Nova get fouls on the Reynolds eligibility scale, i.e. as many as they want?

Gotta rebound fellas

Now

Doris Burke

Really starting to piss me off. About to get sexist up in here

For some reason

ESPN is determined to keep a completely useless female announcer on call for their major sports. Pam Ward during football season is just as atrocious (and sounds almost identical to Burke)

It's really getting at me

She doesn’t know anything about basketball. It’s ridiculous

this is going to end very badly

drinking heavily

You really think so?
unconfirmed report

Fans in the 400 level have broken into and looted a locked beer stand

born on the 4th of July
the press

extremely effective at breaking the press today. excellent work in practice after USF game.

Burke on Monroe

“There was a time earlier in the year when it was a tight game and they needed someone to score and he did.” GREAT ANALYSIS BITCH

HAVE TO REBOUND
we cannot win this game

unless CW scores 3 more points.

simply cannot.

Jason

Hooters before every fucking game

Now THAT

is how you bitchmake the Wildcats.

wow

If Clark can get 2 more he’ll be the 4th Hoya to score 25+ this season.

Princeton offense.

Hollis is playing awesome

Just great.

Nova blogger

email received from www.IBleedBlueandWhite.com:

‘Jason Clark doing lines on the sidelines’

Why is Tagliabue

wearing a Cosby sweater? Is this 1988?

Please please please rebound

Box out

That was an awful call

Should have been Jerrelle

Still way too sloppy with the ball

Can’t expect JC to shoot 6-7 from three every single game

around the big east

johnnies now down by 21.

unreal.

Norm Roberts will be fired by season end
Speaking of St Johns-WVU

Is there some sort of NCAA rule stating that WVU must have a white guy rocking the dirty molestasche/goatee combo? Because if there isn’t, there really should be.

ticker on ESPN2

‘Georgetown hammering Villanova on ESPN’

Starting to get nervous
drinking heavily

this is going to end very badly

Gotta keep hitting FTs
Cutaway on ESPN

fuck you ESPN

Every ESPN channel and MASN now getting Marquette - Providence
FUCK YOU ESPN

WHO CARES ABOUT MARQUETTE AND PROVIDENCE!!!!

scout the friars!
SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK
OH MY GOD

GET THIS THE FUCK OFF

Wright has 7 points

The equation is simple.

Cheap 5th on Wright
Wright out of the game

7 points. Here we go

game over. we lose

Wright has fouled out with seven points. See you tuesday, everynody, for our third-loss-in-a-row against providence.

really glad

i got to saw that last possession in the marquette – providence game

GO GO GADGET ARMS

I’m sweating

It'd be nice

If the refs would start calling Nova for jumping over Gtown players backs.

Seriously

The reffing in this game is so wildly inconsistent I think I just picked up my 2nd personal

Fuck yes Julian

Fuck fucking yes

5-5 from the line is incredible
up 14 w 4 to go

COME ON

There was no foul there?

I’m pretty sure Julian just got raped. Forget a foul, he should file a police report

That's what I was talking about above

Apparently, it is now ok to just jump on top of another player’s back so long as the ball is in the same zip code

apparently...

Sitting on Julian’s face is not considered a foul

Julian Vaughn

Makes huge plays at very important times. See UConn and today

T me up

About to throw headband on court in a fit of rage. Should have gone to wvu. They know how to protest bad no-calls.

I'm going to skullfuck Ryan Burr

If he keeps switching off the game

I lost power, but now I'm back

honestly it was something of a relief not listening to Doris, and listening to Rich instead

#10

DUNK THE DAMN BALL!

King fouls out

Thank God

Pelosi's eating like she's about to hibernate.
Julian

7-7 from the line. Wow.

Hollis to 18!

steaks for all!

Two Points

Well worth it.

We cannot win this game

Wright has 7 points

About to defy the odds
6 more

I really want to see triple digits up there.

What a phenomenal win
Beat Duke, lose to USF, beat Nova

All in a week

we have 95 points

we could go over 100 againt Nova. Damn.

2 more

C’mon, put up a C note

Nobody wants it more than Greg!
Nova

just a bunch of thugs

I like the fire

Suck it Nova scum

100!

STAND UP AND GET CRUNKED!

100!!!

The big 3 becomes the Big 4??

100

there it is!

Malik Waayns

Is a fucking fetus. Shut the fuck up. You just got whupped you little choad

really

down by 11 with less than 10 seconds and YOU FOUL? Fucking scum

Now that's a win.

Well done to everyone. Especially impressed by the crowd.

New rule

all pre-game team meetings for home games must take place at Hooters

Clark was nearly unconscious

Doris mangles chess reference

when the game was over did you hear her try and use a chess reference….

“time to put the queen down” (when one resigns at chess you put the king on its side)

maybe i misinterpreted….perhaps barney frank was at the game in addition to pelosi?!?!!?!?

And back to the Channel

as the casual post-party rolls along in high gear.

Fking magnificent result hoyas. What were the odds of the 1 from a 2-1 in the last 3 games being USF?

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