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Rutgers Scarlet Knights (11-8, 3-3) at #10/12 Georgetown Hoyas (15-3, 5-2)

Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Georgetown Hoyas, Jan 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST


Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Georgetown Hoyas
Visitor vs. Georgetown
NR (11-8, 3-3); RPI: 133 #10/12 (15-3, 5-2); RPI: 16
Date: January 21, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Time: 12:00 p.m. ET
Arena: Verizon Center
TV: MASN Spread: Georgetown -11.5
Radio: SportsTalk570 Over/Under: 126
Online:
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Casual Pregame: Irish Channel Pub - 500 H St. NW


(Perspectives After The Jump)

Star-divide

View from the Student Section - A Perspective from Campus:

And now for the most annoying fight song of all time (cue Rutgers band). The Scarlet Knights swing into DC on Saturday, with little to no buzz on campus about their arrival. But make no mistake about it this is just as big a game as the last two. I still think we have to 4-0 vs St John's, Depaul, Rutgers, and Pitt to put ourselves in a good position for a stretch run in the BE. Maybe we can hit some free throws along the way. In all seriousness, Georgetown needs to come out with a purpose, and attempt to bury this Rutgers team early. They're a confident bunch, but they're still all freshmen(oh wait they have other players on their team?). Well, yeah Dane Miller's been playing out of his mind recently and I'm still waiting for Rutgers to have a graphic saying "THE LITHUANIAN" after every time Biruta scores (similar to West Virginia's "THE TURK"). Nate Lubick, though, has been playing excellent of late, and he will need to continue his string of good performances against the Gilvydas.

So here's to hoping for a half-full student section! Or apparently I finally get to write my student attendance rant next week.

See you tomorrow circa 9:00 am at 7th and F.

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

Hoya faithful in the DC area, it looks like winter is upon us. And it's ugly. The sleet and snow provides a perfect backdrop for this game with Rutgers, who has proven to be a scrappy team but generally overmatched by the Hoyas. Rutgers has a few wins over the big boys this season but I think we can all agree that their beating Notre Dame in the last game is a good thing for all involved - anyone who supports Notre Dame is inherently suspect.

Georgetown has largely owned Rutgers at home, winning 17 of 19 but this remains a somewhat dangerous team. And with David Cox still on their staff, there's plenty of knowledge of the way Georgetown plays. But let's be honest, things have changed since Mr. Cox was on the Hilltop - back then, Henry was a skinny underclassman not quite ready for primetime and Jason Clark was just starting to find his sea legs.

It's an early tip so be sure to leave early, we all know how well DC does with snow.

View from the Enemy- A Perspective from our Sleeping With The Enemy Interview:

If this were at the RAC, I'd give RU a pretty good shot. But since it's a Saturday afternoon on the road... I'll say Georgetown by twelve. Rutgers stays within 5 or 6 most of the game, then loses out on Free throws. Let's say... 72-60

JahidiLikesPie Nervous Level:

SEVERE

Jahidi will be making the trip to Verizon for this one for some reason and Jahidi hates referring to himself in the 3rd Person. I am thoroughly concerned about this game, since an easy win is expected but a narrow one will take years off my life. I rate my nerves as severe.

Hopefully Markel Starks feels well enough to play and Henry Sims realizes that dunking the ball is a high percentage shot. Speaking of shots, Jahidi fully intends to chase an abundance of Stella Tall Boys during the game with victory shots of Jameson afterwards.

This blog stinks.

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

The Line: Georgetown -11.5. Over/under 126.

Jason Clark is awesome, but Jason Clark and his penchant for missing free throws in the final minute has cost me not one but two casual covers this season. I'll forgive the DePaul Debacle because at least it netted me a push, and everyone knows that in Vegas, a push is a win. Georgetown has consistently had fits containing guards who can put up buckets in bunches, and Rutgers has that and more in Eli Carter. I like the Hoyas to win this one and it may even be by a comfortable margin, but I ain't giving 11.5 to anyone in this league.

The pick is Rutgers +11.5. Final score Hoyas 71 - Scarlet Pimpernels 60.

Casual Hoya is 9-8-1 ATS this season.
Last season: 18-14.
Overall 49-30-1.

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

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Comments

Austin Freeman
@_SugarFree5

Georgetown always plays well when there is a blizzard or something…Villanova, Duke, St.Johns, am i missing some others?

Good thing Austin isn’t a meteorologist.

6 Years Ago Today

We Beat Duke

I was part of that court rush

And I learned that there’s really nothing to do once you get on the floor.

Good call

I still have the ticket from that game. I plan to pass it and the story on to my children like in the Princess Bride.

Is it 12 yet??? Let’s go get this W Hoyas..
Game is on SNY in New York
and UToo (Comcast 248) in Chicago
SNY has been coming up huge this season

Still hate the fact that I live in NYC, but this definitely makes it easier

on ABC in philly
Come on Hoya Blue

Impress us today with a huge student turn out. No excuses.

im watching the game today on some channel called UTOO
did someone say Channel?
january is the worst

TODAY i can’t really watch because i am in the middle of a purposefully epic/insane 5-day editorial competition. for school. so i can one day join the rest of you lawyer types as an associate at casual, hoya & thundertrain, LLP. blergh. typetty type type must be better than others type type.

anyway, everyone cheer/drink/spaz extra hard on my behalf.

Law Review is for chumps
true that

Cf. My resume at 1 [hereinafter, Resume].

indeed

spend your time in clinics

extra hard on?

see swte photo for more details

espn's college gameday live from pitt today

high comedy

piece on Thomas Robinson

tough to watch

Some solid tears

In the JGD compound

not to be confused with the Tracy Jordan movie:

Hard To Watch: based on the book "Stone Cold Bummer" by Manipulate

they just booed Duke like they cared

get used to it, Pitt fans

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FUCKING STUDENTS
Starks warming up and sounds like he will start
another shitty crowd at verizon

i’ve had just about enough of this nonsense

really don't understand

this team is so much fun to watch.

Would like to walk around campus and slap every student there now in the face
Does anyone have a live streaming link?

Blacked out in NY and I’m a broke grad student w/o cable…

it's on SNY, isn't it?

at least up here in CT

firstrow.tv works but the game is not up yet
oldhoya front and center
a very casual family

spreading the gospel to the next generation

Sims

Loves turning the ball over

i am already sickened by eli carter
Wow.. thats a great call ref..
Fuckin' Nate

Stop flopping.

Quiet enough in there to hear Hank clapping
Let’s beat the Chit out of the fools… I’m already pissed
Biruta looks like Peter Dinklage

can’t make the photo mashup right now but it’s true

he certainly dunks like him
As good a year as Henry has had...

It’s really frustrating to have a center who can’t finish on contested shots.

A DUNK OH MY GOD A DUNK
Hollis also likes the snow

At least it makes somebody dunk!

Rutgers could build a house with bricks like that
Where is the &^%$ feed on ESPN3?
blacked out in Alabama

for some reason. I can tell you nobody regionally is carrying it, so I think that means that ESPN3 just sucks.

football season may be over

but they don’t want people getting distracted by that funny sport where you put the ball through a hoop

plenty distracted

by the sport of putting the ball on a face

when the ball hits the top of the backboard

is that counted as a turnover?

Bold statement #1 of the day - we are going to lose this game
There's that optimism!
stoke already list today to west brom

which NEVER HAPPENS. So utter trepidation on the hoops front.

This game already smells a bit

Like to see some offensive execution coming out of this timeout

Interesting lineup

Clark, Whit, Porter, Lubick, Hollis

Hollis practiced his FTs
2-2 on free throws?

what team is this in grey?

and there's a turnover

it’s the right guys, don’t worry

The next generation has received their Casual swag.

Also, it was unclear, but these may be OldHoya’s grandchildren.

So cute!

(Infinitiely better than Steve Tyler.)

On pace for a power 40 points
no free shots

At theory today

Nate would be an all American women's volley ball player
No doubt

He loves to spike

It's a good thing Rutgers keeps missing these easy layups

or else things would look real bad right now

Attaboy Hank

Let’s get something going

so, I am wearing

my new “Made in china” casual shirt and a student commented on it, saying it wad great and he is an avid casual reader! ;)

TELL HIM TO GET HIS FRIENDS TO COME TO FUCKING GAMES
Can Henry people stop jumping on ball fakes at the 3 point line!!!!

That is going to cost us a game with a late foul from 3 when we are down 2.

nate loves that play
"officials rarely make mistakes"

this guy has never seen the cahill/burr combo

or what happened on that play
no joke

During nova radio broadcast the other night both announcers stated Cahil is one of the best refs in league and country

Surprising we can't get a backdoor

With Rutgers just all up in our grills

Jesus Christ.

DUNK THAT COOL WHIT

OH MY GOD GREG DUNK THE FUCKING BALL
Been watching too much Hank
These announcers are worse than the last ones
the laugh was horrible
This is the offense I feared coming into this season
We suck at shooting at home

Which is sort of a huge problem.

2-13

yikes

it will get better

i like our defense

Bright Side:

We’re putting a lot of misses in the bank.

the "yeah we're going down" song?

Nice positive thinking from the verizon dj

Hoop looks like a golf hole right now
the offense will come

but it helps WHEN YOU DUNK THE BALL! (although we do miss a lot of those too)

why didn't cool whit

Dunk on the 2 v 1? He’s 6’9!!!

student section filled out
Very impressed
finally

took them all season to find the damn arena

apparently Dc is iced over

damn i miss that place

i'm stuck in leesburg and NOT in dc today

because the roads more closely resemble a skating rink, and i’m no michelle kwan

dc shuts down with even threat of snow
FTs looking good so far at least....
we're in the bonus with 10 minutes

lets hope we can stay consistent with these fts

Hank is snoozing out there
Did sims soak his body in cocobutter today????
One complaint with the offense

Makes our young guys so hesitant to make plays, me thinks

i like this lineup
sure hope we make fts
Nice stroke there from Jason
That was an excellent

Inbounds play

Doug Gottlieb @GottliebShow 2m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Must be getting close to February, Georgetown down 13-11 at home to Rutgers

I really hate that man
can we strap gottlieb to the tracks in front of the delusion train?
well, it *could* happen...
HUGE DOUCHE CANOE
A 2 point deficit

and the year is over? His delusion train is WAY worse (and conducted by a living asshat)

Someone read an article

Containing the phrase “fast twitch muscle fiber” recently

except the first time i swear they translated it to "face-twitch"

and the friend i’m watching with asked if it was safe to be throwing things at the head of someone who was having that kind of issue

Loooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Lubick making plays

Huge.

Team seems way more into it now, crowd is fantastic considering circumstances

Did you know

Doug Gottlieb got kicked out of ND for stealing credit cards?

We miss open layups and their circus shots go in #shitluck
Blue Collar Guy

Do we really only have 13 points right now??
11 of 17 pts from the line

Ass-tastic offensive execution so far

Ass-tastic sounds like it could be a good thing

Context clues really are key.

thank god rutgers doesnt have depaul's excellent ft defenses
Blue Collar Guy

* Courtesy of my girlfriend

I’m clearly not talented enough to do this

Well

There’s something to be said for pulling a casual lady with excellent photoshop skills, too.

apparently this team did nothing but practice ft's all week
basically all they need right now...
georgetown is smart
God we’re 3-16 right now lol
Score updates?

I’m movin right now and the new place don’t have cable yet…. I’m on the phone

18-18 @ 5:37

shooting not so great, but making some FTs today!

Don't worry

The phone probably updates faster than the score changes today

lubick already wrapped up hear pf a champ award
Dood has been ballin lately..
Nate is doing great things out there.
Angelina, Jersey Shore - Season 1:

“But I’m a bartender. I do, like, great things!”

so...

how deep is rutgers?

WTF??? Goaltend???
Jeeeezuz 3-19
Finding new ways to keep the score close against bad teams
Hey Ball!

Why you not go in the hoop!?

Refs letting them play...
We'll shoot the ball better

I feel very good about this game, rebounding and D is excellent.

Also, can Rutgers cheerleaders play for them? They are fouling like this game is only going to halftime

We’re shooting 14% from the field and we’re up 2...
3-23

Yikes. Impressed only down by 1.

agree

things will work out in second half.

Markel leading our team in stupid fouls..smh
K I feel dumb but...

What’s “smh” stand for? I keep reading it as suck my hand but that possibly be right

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=smh+definition&l=1#
I've found that

The only people douchey enough to use the lmgtfy link are the ones who had to look it up themselves first

Stay classy, friend

based on the first half performance

I have an important question — which goes better with my casual waffles and eggs brunch — jack daniel’s or beer?

casual jack bombs

split the difference

that sounds awful

but if we continue to shoot <15% from the floor that may be in order

you asked that question?

for you, Jack is always the way to go. hope you made the right decision. I made egg & cheese biscuits (you know the kind) – no liquor…

These announcers

have set a new low for the year. “Lubick 47% from the line. He made the first, so you’re probably going to see an offensive rebound off the second one here.” Someone didn’t take basic statistics classes…

gambler's fallacy

the best

Wentzel is a dillweed

Did everyone know Nate is the son of a coach?

Rutgers...

commit ALLL THE FOULZ!!!

Nates free throw motion is worst than shaq
How does the 5'2" guy score in the paint!
How did sims get stuffed

Isnt he like 8 ft tall??

chris is now sitting courtside
game changer
This revolting abomination of offensive execution

Is decidedly unlike all prior snowstorm games

Didn't think...

I’d live in a world where Rutgers is good and South Florida doesn’t suck.

we can make anyone look good, in fairness
Wide open for 3

Whit: nah, I’ll pump fake against nobody and drive into 3 players in the paint.

confidence

he has been horrible from three

Good decision

Before today, Whitt was 7-29 from 3.

And 2 of those were against Savannah State

When we all thought he had such a pretty stroke from outside. Since the season opener he’s been lubicklicious from the perimeter.

Frozen

Impressively cold from the floor

whittington is sucking ass
Has he been in all day??? Oh wait, almost the whole game
so...

what the fuck was that?

so

that was ugly

Wow well given that we only made 3 shots

This could be a lot worse

15 minutes later

Still on pace for a power 40

time to start punishing my liver

it’s been a baddddd boy…

oooey poooeyness… smh
Vommit half

I threw up in my mouth

Burn the playbook and game film from that half #bonfireonthequad
defense played well for the most part
what is the best way to go blind?

chug drain cleaner

stab my eyeballs

keep watching our offense

Solid performance

I stepped away from the game stream for the last 60 seconds to clean out the cat box… I think I like what I was seeing there better

Shooting 12 percent for the first half.

12 percent.

And it's not just bad luck

Tentative passing, sorry shot selection, dunk avoidance techniques…

3-24 shooting.. When did Jeremy Hazel start playing for the Hoyas??
Can our D1 status be revoked?

that was ugly, terrible, gross. I still think we win, how bad does that make rutgers?

Jeff must be doing well. He is sitting in front of the press table
This can't be good for his heart
listening to halftime report talking about how good syracuse is

adding insult to injury

It's going to be funny..

when Scoop Jardine costs ’Cuse a game in March.

That was refreshing

Thank you

Don't you mean Uncle Scoop?
Looks like we spent a lot of time practicing free throws this week...

And not practicing anything else on offense.

just think of how bad this half would have been if we had last week's FT%

we’d only have like 12 points

i'd rather listen to my own ass call a game than bob wenzel
hoyas offense resembles an ass call...

shart the shorts

12.5% FG. 0-8 from the 3. It's like the Hoyas dressed a bunch of me to play today...
Call me crazy

But I think we blow them out in the second half.

Just law of averages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_averages
sorry, douchey

i’m not a happy camper having to drink this early to handle the hoyas

Got home from a race not long ago

Strangely not worried about this game. Shots will start to fall and Rutgers will hit serious foul trouble, as long as we continue to play solid D, we will win this game. Let’s go Hoyas!

Hollis Jason and Henry..

2-15…

shocker

Announcer just got law of averages wrong

I think all the foul calls against Rutgers never allowed the team to get into an offensive flow
Oldhoya had an extended conversation with Jeff #diverseinvestmentstrategy
we just bricked 6 outside shots in warmups in a row

hope this is not sign of things to come

that's a good sign

get it out of their system!

On a better note

Jason Clark leads the Hoyas with assists with 1…

hard to get assists

when you cant finish the shot

The good news is our shooting couldn't get any worse
Ugh. Now you've done it.

1-34 this half.

why would you say that
"hiyas only have 2 assists"

To be fair, that is 66% assists for field goals. These announcers suck

hahahaha

wow. so true.

ah, statistics...

they can tell so many different tales

Had to laugh at that one

Excellent insight

If only I had spelled hoyas right!
Defense looking lively to start the 2nd

I believe!

chris wright walking back thru student section

About 3 appeared to recognize him. Awful.

Boom

Starks

We should be in the bonus with 17 mins left
they seem to be playing 10

or else all would have foukled out.

this game

is as depressing as cinci

Never shoot it!!!! #benchwhitie
"Nate, what are you doing!?"

Best commentary so far?

Gddamn....

Nate cmon

nate..............

jesus

When Lubick spots up for 3

you know our offense is struggling

Oh, there's Lubick's three point attempt!

I was wondering where those had gone lately

Not in the basket...well 5-30 something in his career
for once i agree with these commentators

“nate what are you doing!”

And then a child out rebounds him...
"Their big white guy made a 3, so I should be able to."

That’s buying a lottery ticket-style logic.

similar odds, too
This team can't handle success.

Here we go #anotherrollercoasteryear COACHING!!!

the feed out of khazakstan is struggling
That...

was sexy.

That was beautiful
YES YES YES

I think I just got pregnant by that dunk

In the face!
Thundersnow!!!

Is that hoop attached to the back of John Carroll?
wow awful awful awful call
it might get

jason angry.

It is loud in the VZ center

Good to hear

I guess jt3s half time coaching was

“make some field goals”

Jason Clark's clap

Will singlehandedly win this game for us.

What, is he going to rape the Rutgers starting lineup?
I don't think they have a cure for the clap in Jersey yet.
Jason finally solves

the sound of a singlehanded clap

denny's commercial better than the basketball game

new low

2-4-6-8 Value Menu =

Otto Porter Award for Filling the Boxscore

To be fair to Nate

They seemed late in the clock when he shot his three. Henry should have completed the post up move.

a lot of the bad shots and turnovers we've had

have been the result of other players not shooting much much higher quality shots

rough one to swallow

For rutgers

Rutgers has no problem swallowing

From what I understand

Now we need to rebound and defend
these announcers

they are the worst

WHY DO ANNOUNCERS INSIST ON SAYING A PLAYER HAS MADE ALL THEIR FREE THROWS

fisafiuahdfiuahfduhf

Starks

Dominates on dumb fouls.

That was fucking garbage
Let’s f*ckin go!!! Hoyas!
wow

fucking AWFUL officiating

Starks leading the team in dumb ass fouls..
Wow

Wow wow. Time to get angry

Good hustle by Hollis

A couple stops, a couple buckets…let’s go, boys.

Henry

Jesus, that dude has the dumbest turnovers

and here come the even ups
That was on Hollis??

The hell

Mike Rice

Is so annoying

i hope the fans are happy

we pay tickets to see the refs officiate the games right?

wow

these refs have lost their minds

How novel

scoring on an inbound play

JESUS CHRIST GREG

Awful

whittington so bad at making layups
Anyone can drive the ball, short game wins the masters
They have to start fouling out soon at least
Way to draw the charge

Now let’s close the goddamn gap!

We need to start scoring

This has gone on long enough

poss hoyas win if enough rutgers players foul out they can put 5 on the floor
at the rate this officiating is going

they’ll run out of players by the 5 minute mark

and starks will commit

17 more fouls

they'll find a way to call them as he's sitting on the bench

don’t give ’em any ideas

It's

like watching a junior high team make entry passes

against the 90's chicago bulls
espn3 feed fail.
UTOO in Chicago is just as bad, somehow
i have no sound
I had computer on mute.
it rightfully objected to idiocy of the commentators

intelligent machine you’ve got there

so a 17 PT deficit at this point against marquette

strangely felt much more recoverable than this deficit. FFS.

Whit trying to make us like him again
Whit can make THAT

But not a 2ft layup!?

Anyone still optimistic?
I am

feels way too much like cinci. not happy.

Someone on their team will foul out soon...?
in general or about us winning?

i still think we have a good chance to pull this out, but seeing games like this makes me very nervous that we can sustain our success until march

what was the call before the tv timeout?

announcers were too busy with their verbal diarrhea to call the game

Travel on Whit
I'm pretty sure they called traveling on Whittington

While he was standing still

he thought about switching his pivot foot

clearly

traveling, i think
Our cheerleaders have more knee braces than the patriots offensive line
Guys, it's ok

We have Batman on the sax. What could possibly go wrong?

only if batman is a tranny hooker in cosplay
Your wish

That is terrifying
Next time you're running around in Arkham City

just remember what’s under the cape

seconded

and I don’t want to know what you googled to find that. or worse, that you knew where it was already…….

image search for "tranny batman"

and not one of the results was uglier than this game

Save Us, Steven Tyler's Tits!

Worked for Marquette. Worth a shot here.

Not big enough

…Can’t believe I’m actually saying that.

Be careful what you wish for...(sorry)

Jesus christ

Who was asking for the best way to go blind earlier?

many other results for "steven tyler beach"

are no less scarring

Wait are they about to call a retroactive foul?
that would be a true officiating fail
Seriously? To the monitor now? For what?

This crew sucks.

Shot clock didn't start when it was supposed to
seriously wtf is this
You idiot announcers

the shot clock didn’t start.

ah yep
Me: The shot clock didn't start

1 minute, 45 seconds later: Announcers: Oh, they didn’t star the shot clock.

what is being checked?
sounds loud in there
"I was just told it was a shot clock problem..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N83KVeluPoY

Mike Cox

Must have something devastating on some of the players like “make me look good or Big John finds out who painted I love Syracuse on the wall of his house.”

Whittington getting his confidence back!!!
Oh Whit

I can’t stay mad at you

Ok

Game can start now.

Leave the freshmen in

Please

Nice that we can say that with confidence

In at least a few games

Trawick

Is such a fucking bad ass

the way

Jabril drew the defender to him befor dishing to whit was beautiful

Bob Wentzel

Is the worst thing to happen to college basketball since Syracuse.

great awareness of trawick to pressure the long inbounds knowing the shot clock
7 assists on 9 fGs

so law of averages says: 2 assists on 3 more FGs for the rest of the game?

finding the mismatch!!!

Coaching !!!

Trawick

Is phenomenal, dude just stays playing at 100mph at all times

I don't care which way these calls go, this is some bullshit
How has there whole team not fouled out by now???!!?
just so we keep it fair

that was a bs call on rutgers there. these refs should be ashamed of themselves/suspended. It’s been that bad.

or better yet

go to the ACC with this ticky-tack shit

this announcer is a total jinx
How bout a foul graphic from ESPN?
That was a give and go ...

Without the go.

Why can't we hit ft's now?
can't see the hoop

Our defense in smothering

Just need to fucking score and it’s our game

we just cannot take the lead
how come opposing teams always get ass lucky with these banks??
hollis hit a bank in that Cincy game...
They're part of the 1%
Ass lucky

Like the Miller Lite girl from SWTE?

Rutgers strategy:

Make us take so many free throws we get tired…

I'm down with that strategy.
must have seen our ft percentage last game
i hate this game
whittington practice this week

layups. all week.

Loving our D

Big stretch right here, I think we outscore them by 10 from here on out.

can we get 7 minutes of complete bball

maintain the D and make some shots.

For the love of fuck can we please play just 5 straight mins of solid basketball???
holy crap

Just tuned in and saw 26% from the field. Is that a joke?

if only...
oh...

it’s down to 25 now…

you are lucky you missed the 1st ha;f
Not so lucky

catching the 2nd half either…

No one tell him what we shot in the first half.
look for the kid in the red hair

Probably will be thrown out soon

why would anyone pay $160 to watch NBA games?
What is it with these lawyer comments?
Have to hit FTs

Will be shooting two for rest of the game

What's is Wentzel's preoccupation

with saying all our students are going to be lawyers?

guilty as charged....
It's not inaccurate (note the lawyerly double negative)

but a weird thing to keep pointing out

Also how many times is he going to say

“You’ve got to be kidding me!”

You’re an ESPN announcer, not a sophomore girl whose roommates finished the Franzia. Get it together man.

Take a roll call of lawyers/law students around here...

He may have a point, however odd it is that he feels the need to keep repeating it.

"Future lawyers of America" ?

Why is the guy on ESPN3 fixated on this?

enough with this

“future lawyers of america crap”

do they say “future burger flippers of canada” when they do cuse games?

Fab Melo not traveling with Cuse

school not saying why

maybe a parole violation?

always a safe guess with Cuse players

Probably the usual

Assaulted a female student…“Closed-hand slap” or some such

The lead!!!!!
Pump the brakes...."shades of Ewing"
Refs have swallowed their whistles all game

Now under 6 minutes so it’s time to call everything.

Swallowed their whistles all game?

We shot like 24 free throws in the first half…

And three of their players have four fouls!

It feels like we’ve been in the bonus since last night

swallowed their whistles?

what game have you been watching? there have been like 348 fouls this game

Maybe the whistle got stuck in their throat

So it sounds every time they breathe.

hahaha

comment of the night

night?

you’re in CST. how much JD have you had?

you're watching the same game i am

wild guess

Is Hollis even in the arena??
when a team takes out his spot up opportunities

he disappears. But as the defense gets more desperate he could yet find some looks in this game

Trawick has completely

Changed this game

Playing like a grown-ass man
Better than a grown ass-man
if he was

i’m sure twitter would have told us already

playing like he grew up on the streets of philly
I assumed that whistle for the time out was another foul call
so much for the spread
Never say never
Ok, fine.

Say never.

Didn't know NJ state was this good
why did jt3 take that TO?

to allow rutgers to adjust defensively?

It wasn't a TO - rutgers guy fouled out
Sims

Has said “nice shot boy” on two misses from FT

Fouled out

He’s a shame to his calling

No, he fouled out because he plays dirty and evil

5 minute game, gentlemen

Just win this last eighth, and we can kind of overlook the first 35.

Yeah, I've got a bad feeling about this

I hope I’m wrong.

This lineup is offensively challenged
really wish Henry could consistently finish around the rim
Center passes to wing, back to center

Center holds it….holds it………(sigh)…..holds it………..

3 can you please put Hollis back in the game… We need some scoring thx
wish there was a spanish language feed to listen to instead
Even a sign language feed

would be acceptable at this point

Hank's postup game

Leaves a lot to be desired. We need him NOW.

How many layups have we missed. #fubar
rice changed the D

lets see if jt3 can adjust.

he couldnt against cincy

I think Hollis needs to come back in

Stretch out their D a bit

Finish, Hank, Finish!

you are killing me

Georgetown Basketball has bested me once again

I am drunk

FG%

Roughly equivalent to the ratio of acceptable drinks / ill-advised despair drinks

Henry Sims

Is killing me today, killing me

God dammit Hank will you FUCKING FINISH AT THE RIM
what's the score?

the pirate feed has some directv thing in the bottom corner and i can no longer see it

50-45 them, 2:14, Henry shooting 2
50-45

they just nailed a three from well outside the arc

Deja Vu

all over again. Inconsistency is our greatest weapon.

Now is the time for us to start playing some basketball
Firstrow.tv just switched games on me
ditto

did we lose?

we're working on it.
losing

by 5 with 2 mins left and sims at line

i'm kinda happy about this, actually

i’m not sure i could handle actually watching the end

hoooooliiis

Fight through iiiittt!!

damn it

pirated feed just kicked so some other game

215 to go
This is the worst game to watch hungover

Making spins worse

If we lose to rutgers

I’ll be really sad

Good eyes, Nate!
More of that

Less of everything else

so glad

porter didn’t miss that.

Great eye by Nate getting that ball to Otto

50-48, RU just committed an offensive foul, 1:16 to play

biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig nate
67% from the free throw line

if we were just 70%+ this wouldnt be so close

If we win, it will sad that I'll be so happy and excited about it
is chovtkin not on espn 980?
nope. it was a Simmons' podcast earlier
SO STRESSFULLLLLLL
PORTERRRRRRRRR
Nice Otto!

Ugly but effective

porter hits a jumper to tie it at 50 with 1:01
someone shout if one of the TV networks gives a live look in
I just stuck my finger so far up my nose

That it is bleeding.

Stress is not a good thing

sheesh, that's weird.
can't count

how many times I chewed my nails off for past several years while watching the game

Is rutgers good or are we bad?

This wasn’t supposed to be a stressful game!

A little from column A; a little from column B
Vegas thought we were 11.5 points better.
Good morning, skills, where have you been all day?
Score?
tied at 50 with 25.5

we have the ball

50 to 50

Time out. Hoya ball. 20 ticks to go

for those of us who just got booted from the pirate feed

what’s going on?

they took nd missed a 3, our ball tied with 25.2 left
espn 570 has the chovtkin call for those w/o feed
Hoya ball, 25.2 left, 50-50
50-50

Gtown ball with 25 seconds to go

do not pass to sims
Why isn't Starks in for the final play?
Let's work the clock, draw the foul, hit the FT and escape this shitstorm
Last second ft's

Have not been our forte

Just dont want to see Rutgers with the ball again
I might crap my pants

just sayin’

espn570 feed behind

apparently…

yeah it is. really annoying.
Hoyas TO, :21.6 left. 2 remaining.
Memo to Nova...

and G’Town: If your cheerleaders don’t look like Oregon’s, don’t have them.

sims has double double

12 and 12

good swag for the PPP
Otto shooting 2, :08.5

Foul on the floor

Made the first
Made the second, 52-50
up 52-50 wth 8.5 left

porter hit two

have a full glass of jack in front of me

i can handle this

finish it

cheers!

epic..

fail by Rutgers there.

HOYAS WIN!!!!!!!!
what an effing game
AND COLLECTIVELY

PHHHHHEEEEWWWW

Was the final score

the ONLY time we were ahead all day?!?

nah we were ahead once in the 2nd half and ahead until 20-18 in the 1st
err ahead @ 20-18 in the 1st
Just my panic-induced amnesia then

The final one’s the one that counts though!! Phewwww

holy shit thank god
Holy crap

Glad it’s over

I say god damn

i can breathe now

Gooooood it was ugly…survive and advance!! Go Hoyas!!
WE BEAT DUKE!!!

Did Otto score the last 6 points?

Defense won this game

Not crapping the bed on FTs again also helped.

still left 10+ points at the stripe...
70% FT as a team coming in

Could’ve been better, but expectation shouldn’t be hitting 100%.

Nice to play like this and win anyway

Epic scatological documentation
Otto

with last 6 of the game

nice win for you guys.
switching to Nova now

good luck

didnt exactly enjoy sitting through that

but thanks for your kind sentiments. good luck today

we don't need..

luck, we need competence.

at the end of the game

it was their lucky flashes of incompetence (like not getting a decent shot off in those last 20+ seconds) that decided it in nova’s favor. so your prediction was kind of right. either way, you won!

MV3

Trawick & Clark for their defense, Otto for finishing off the game.

Uglier than the toilet after a trip to Mexico but a win is a win
an overtime

would have killed me

My theory

Point shaving on our part to help our Dikembe in his gold smuggling legal troubles

even if they're point shaving, with the spread at +11.5

no need to be this close

God the Hoyas make my life sooooo much better..

Although being a Knicks fan makes my life so much worse…smh

Can't be a Knicks fan

while they have Melo.

and when the dolans own the franchise
I can't say enough of the no-quit attitude of this team

We just win. Sure, we should be winning by more if we’re really #12 in the country, but I can’t help but think last years teams would have lost 4 or 5 games that we’ve won by now

i need positive prognosis after that

glad we got a w but yuck.

I know we were hating on Sims and his inability to finish but...

double-double for the big man…

and GREAT DEFENSE at the end
hv is right

He played the switch perfectly.

Not so much hate as frustration

Dude misses more layups than anyone I’ve ever seen

but they aren't bad shots

I know it isn’t all luck, but I really think they are about to start falling. (delusion, i know)

Sincerely hope that you are right

Practice makes perfect, I guess. Definitely don’t want him to STOP shooting them, just want more buckets, that’s all.

Well, it doesn't get any uglier than that

Thank you, Steven Tyler’s tits. But can we just win pretty next time?

H. Sims 12 Pts, 12 Reb, 2 Ast, 1 Stl, 1 Bl
We shot under 30% for the game and we still won.. I <3 our defense and rebounding..
I still kinda can't believe we won.

I’m gonna turn off the tv and check the score again later.

i now have to go listen to 2 hours of lecture about thyroid physiology

kill me now

i'm in leesburg

you know how those weekends go for my mental state

At least you're not a lawyer

Defy east coast elitist stereotypes!

At least you're not a lawyer

Defy east coast elitist stereotypes!

ALL HAIL STEVEN TYLER'S TITS!
but can it beat

Arnold Scharwarznegger’s tits?

we should save those

for a real emergency

can't wait to see

Berry Bonds’ tits in a decade

a notre dame win

would be just an incing on the cake for the day

espn on melo's issues

there is an outstanding academic matter

he could have grade and eligibility issues, or he could have assaulted his TA. I would say the odds are about even.

Unresolved academic issue from the first semester?

Are you shitting me? We’re almost in February. Grades are back, you’re either eligible or not eligible. I’m thinking something fishy is going on.

Syracuse is a joke.

"Mr. Melo, it looks like you used a pen to change this 'F' into a 'B'..."

documentation of melo’s report card shenanigans

Arkansas taking it to Mich
love me saturday basketball
can we get a saturday open thread?
going all EDSBS right now
about to hit the gym to go rock climbing after downing two beers and a full glass of JD during the game

hoya basketball may actually kill me…

College basketball and hockey all day.

I’m useless on these kinds of Saturdays

The best kind of Saturday, though
Winning a game like this is like taking the fat girl at a party home

Sure it counts, but you hope nobody noticed.

we shot less than 29%

and won.

wow.

Happy we won

Happier I didn’t see the game.

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