Richard Lipski - AP
West Virginia Colors on Tie of Rutgers Coach Award. (AP Photo/Richard Lipski)
The Georgetown Hoyas narrowly avoided a bad loss on Saturday by pulling out an ugly 52-50 win over Rutgers. Before we say goodbye to the Scarlet Knights and begin to focus on Pitt, as usual we here at THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON are handing out hardware to those most deserving. Away we go...
The Chris Wright Heart of a Champion Award:
Otto Porter. Porter only had 9 points and 4 rebounds on just 3-7 shooting from the floor, but he came up big when it mattered, scoring Georgetown's final 6 points including the free throws that proved to be the final margin of victory. JT3 said it best after the game: "Otto doesn't get rattled. He just plays the game." Honorable mention: Greg Whittington and Jabril Trawick. On a day when the usually reliable Hollis Thompson, Jason Clark and Henry Sims all struggled, the freshmen kept Georgetown in the game and in a position to win.
More Awards after The Jump:
Shooting Shitshow Award:
The Hoyas shot 3 of 23 in the first half and made just 12 baskets the entire game, matching Harvard for the fewest baskets made in a win this season. NERDS!
The Tim Tebow Award for Sucking for Three Quarters Then Picking It Up for the Last Few Minutes:
Otto Porter and Greg Whittington. Greg couldn't make a lay-up to save his life before scoring a huge 7 straight points around the 10 minute mark. But Greg's Tebowmagic paled in comparison to the great Otto, who, on the way to scoring 9 points all game, notched 7 of our last 8 points. And six points in the last minute and a half. The stream cut out -- can anyone confirm whether or not Otto tebowed at midcourt after the buzzer?
Promote That Segment Producer Award:
ESPN. That Thomas Robinson piece, my God, it got mighty dusty in my mom's basement after it concluded.
The Verizon Centre Award:
We here at THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON are huge fans of Kate Middleton, so if it was the scoreboard intern's intent to kiss up to the most casual royal by putting up a word she might understand while she was tuning in on ESPN3.com from the Royal Palace in Gloucestershireingham, then we're all for it.
Dickie V Award:
I'm not sure what the deal is with the Big East Network, but it is clearly the place where washed up coaches go to die. Exhibit A is former Rutgers coach Bob Wenzel, who is horrid.
Greatest Day Ever Award:
Hoyas beat Rutgers, hooray! UConn loses to Tennessee, cool! Duke goes down at home to Florida State on a crushing buzzer beater in the face of all of the Cameron Pansies, yes! AND THEN SYRACUSE GETS CRUSHED BY NOTRE DAME!!!! Wow, what a day! Maybe we should celebrate the occasion by making a t-shirt! Just a suggestion, but Duke might want to stop playing games on January 21.
Keep It Up Award:
See what happens when the students show up in droves and make their presence felt in Verizon? Georgetown can beat Rutgers! Good work by the students making it to the game with a wintry mix on the ground, as various chants of Hoya Saxa and the always entertaining "left, right, left right,...sit down!" after some gimp on the opposing team fouls out were clearly audible through the speakers on my 60" television. That's right.
Captain Bar Mitzvah Award:
What was the deal with those sunglasses that some of the Pep Band and students were wearing? And yes, I'm kind of jealous I don't have a pair.
Sack of Crap Newspaper Award:
The Washington Post. Thank you for full boxscores of, among others, the Bulls/Bobcats, Hawks/Cavaliers and FRIDAY'S Timberwolves/Clippers game. But for the NATIONALLY RANKED POWERHOUSE HOYAS we get some kind of modified compressed box score. Remind me again why I am paying $2 for the Sunday paper? Oh right, George Will. Oh, I can get him on line? SUBSCRIPTION CANCELLED. Go rename the damn thing the Ezra Klein Post and fill the paper with charts about income inequality and vegan recipes. I don't care anymore.
Sore Loser Award:
Rutgers fans. Congratulations! You're officially the most delusional whiny bunch of miscreants I've ever run across. Check out the Rutgers Message Board, it's amazing. The fact that you believe that there is an actual conspiracy being perpetrated by the Big East to keep Rutgers down is truly astounding. Come on guys, no one cares enough about you to form a vast conspiracy to hold you back.
Old Balls Award:
Billy Cundiff. I would have probably missed that 32-yarder also, but when I shank an Awards post I can tell you that no one in the Casual Locker Room resembles Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs, or Ed Reed. Good luck enjoying the offseason, buddy. Honorable mention: The 49ers Kyle Williams. Two muffed punt returns that led directly to 10 of the Giants 20 points? Nice work, good sir.
R.I.P Joe Paterno Award:
Joe Paterno.
Thank Goodness for Otto Porter Award:
Casualhoya.com. It would have been a really fun week keeping a nearly suicidal fanbase entertained following a loss to Rutgers and heading into a game against the suddenly basement-dwelling Pitt. Egads.
Rotten Tomatoes Award:
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." This is a perfect movie for those who crave two hours of watching a family drama while being emotionally manipulated against the backdrop of 9/11. Nice work by Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock netting paychecks in this one. Two thumbs up! And by "up", I mean way fucking down.
Lord Voldemort Award:
Wither Markel Starks? Since being the hero and winning the Chris Wright Heart of a Champion Award in the Louisville game, Starks has been shakier as a floor general than that Italian bird who crashed the cruise liner into rocks.
Jim Nantz Award for In-Game Commentary:
Here are a few golden nuggets from the Casual Gamethread:
6 Years Ago TodayWe Beat Duke
by JGD on Jan 21, 2012 9:41 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
The next generation has received their Casual swag.
Also, it was unclear, but these may be OldHoya’s grandchildren.
Let's settle this with a poll.
by wadetandy on Jan 21, 2012 12:17 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
This is the offense I feared coming into this season
Bright Side:
We’re putting a lot of misses in the bank.
by timmadrid on Jan 21, 2012 12:23 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Blue Collar Guy
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?
This revolting abomination of offensive execution
Is decidedly unlike all prior snowstorm games
by TouomouIsMyHomie on Jan 21, 2012 12:51 PM EST reply actions
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
chris wright walking back thru student section
About 3 appeared to recognize him. Awful.
Hammer of the Cuse
by SirHoya on Jan 21, 2012 1:10 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
i hope the fans are happy
we pay tickets to see the refs officiate the games right?
Save Us, Steven Tyler's Tits!
Worked for Marquette. Worth a shot here.
Bob Wentzel
Is the worst thing to happen to college basketball since Syracuse.
Rutgers strategy:
Make us take so many free throws we get tired…
by SomebodyBuyAustinaSteak on Jan 21, 2012 1:43 PM EST reply actions
enough with this
"future lawyers of america crap"
do they say "future burger flippers of canada" when they do cuse games?
Take No Prisoners, especially if they wear Orange.
by hoyabballownsall on Jan 21, 2012 1:48 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Georgetown Basketball has bested me once again
I am drunk
by Unfiltered Hoya on Jan 21, 2012 1:58 PM EST reply actions
ALL HAIL STEVEN TYLER'S TITS!
Gratuitous Pic of Newly Single Heidi Klum in a Bikini and Punching Evander Holyfield Award:
Indeed.
The Georgetown Hoyas are a nationally ranked powerhouse.
Pitt is NeXt.
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"Good news is the rest of the world waon't be subjected to two weeks of Harbaugh Hand Jobs before the Super Bowl. Instead we'll get to hear Bill Simmons talk about the helmet catch for the 4,000,000th time."
I lol’ed
WallaceAtTheLineShooting2 - January 23, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGETOWN
http://happybirthdaygeorgetown.tumblr.com/
Hire Esherick - January 23, 2012
Attendance Report
10,412 total scanned tickets, including 1,419 students.
Best crowd of the year.
Chicken Finger Thursdays - January 23, 2012
Back of the envelope math.
That’s about 40% of the undergrad population? Not too shabby.
I’ve been pretty critical of Hoya Blue this year. They seem to be turning it around on student attendance. Keep up the good work.
StPetersburgHoya - January 23, 2012
agree
people showed up late, likely due to weather. but glad they showed up
Hire Esherick - January 23, 2012
Glad they showed up
But for several students I witnessed, it was clearly their first game of the season. January 21st is not acceptable.
A few girls showed up late in the 1st half and walked all the way down expecting to get in the front of the student section and then tried to sit in 118.
PhillyHoya - January 23, 2012
more like a quarter of the student population
but still good
tjm62 - January 23, 2012
Um, Georgetown's undergraduate enrollment is now just shy of 7500
1419 is 20%, roughly one out of five.
HoyaSmacksYa - January 23, 2012
meh, close enough
for SFS math
SirHoya - January 23, 2012
weird pics of those tots
as it looked like little children were drinking beer on miniature barstools in the background. …..Odd.
SomebodyBuyAustinaSteak - January 23, 2012
re rutgers fan boards
i understand why they are pissed. it is a shitty way to lose a game.
but they should be pissed with rice and not the refs. refs have consistently called fouls on rutgers for aggressive defense. it has happened all season. rice acknowledged that rutgers was an attack team and that he didnt mind most of the calls. to call it normal for the first 38 minutes of a game and an exception for the last 2 is pure stupidity.
but i dont take offense to anything said by rutgers fans. this is the internet, it was created to compile whiny fan complaints (this blog included).
Hire Esherick - January 23, 2012
There are ways to complain without coming off as complete morons
But when you are serious about how Georgetown needs to be “ashamed of itself” for how anything in this game went down, you are just begging for ridicule and scorn.
WarmupEwing - January 23, 2012
And I'm sorry
no matter how bad the officiating is, you have no right to complain when you lose to a team that made 12 field goals and 52 total points.
wadetandy - January 23, 2012
Zing
I like this point best of all
J-Wall's Mom's Broom - January 23, 2012
Big East Power Rankings
ESPN:
CasualHoya - January 23, 2012
survival counts
onceahoya - January 23, 2012
im surprised UCONN is so low
SomebodyBuyAustinaSteak - January 23, 2012
Just win.
Esteban d' Amur - January 23, 2012
Sage words
As ever
J-Wall's Mom's Broom - January 23, 2012
Gloucestershireingham
is perhaps the funniest thing ever said on this lunch website.
wadetandy - January 23, 2012
How many farthings is that from Stoke, Sir Hoya?
WarmupEwing - January 23, 2012
twelve leagues
two furlongs and a barleycorn. Also about four centuries.
SirHoya - January 23, 2012
otto was a beast. but lubick's effort kept us in the game
deserves heart of champion award. or fill the boxscore (though Hank did more of that). Lubick was out there outhustling rutgers by himself at times when the team looked like it was sleepwalking around him. got the crowd into the game too.
thejerseytornado - January 23, 2012
he did have some fantastic offensive rebounds that gave us second and third opportunities
though i think we missed all those shots anyway.
thunderbus - January 23, 2012
also...their board makes our delusion look tame:
“This team destroyed Georgetown last night. You didn’t see the game, so you didn’t see just how much better we are than them.”
and
“When the offense catches up to the defense and can consistently score 70 pts per game…we will be a TOP TEN team”
damn. we need to step it up.
thejerseytornado - January 23, 2012
They will probably lose to DePaul this week
WarmupEwing - January 23, 2012
given how much the rest of the BE schools paid the refs, I should hope so...
…though those of us paying for this grand conspiracy still haven’t figured out why we’re paying off the refs to beat down a team that hasn’t made the NCAA tourney since 1991.
Step 1: Pay off the refs to screw over RU
Step 2: Beat RU
Step 3: ????
Step 4: PROFIT!
sanityonleave - January 23, 2012
How do you destroy someone and score 50 points.. Is this football??
yaboynyp - January 23, 2012
Rutgers Guards….
Are 3 of their top 4 scorers. We held Seagers, Mack, and Carter to a combined 7-26 and 19 points total.. They also had 6 assists and 8 turnovers…
yaboynyp - January 23, 2012
yeah but if the refs called a fair game the three guards would have scored 70 each
Hire Esherick - January 23, 2012
gtown #8 in sbn poll
http://newyork.sbnation.com/2012/1/23/2727374/college-basketball-rankings-week-12-projections-syracuse-ap-usa-today-coaches-top-25-kentucky-baylor
Hire Esherick - January 23, 2012
OUCH!
Roy, Roy, Roy took a Kobe elbow to the nose- broken nose now- but then put the Pacers on his back and beat Lakers in LA – 27 minutes, 18 pts, 8 R, 4 A. Way to go Hoya2aPacer!
tookmycrossover2Besiktas - January 23, 2012 via mobile
Gottlieb
I’m surprised he posted that from his own account and didn’t “borrow” one of his colleagues’ Twitter handles.
HoyaGoon - January 23, 2012
Sunglasses
I’ll trade you my sunglasses for a casual headband.
Be(a)st of the Big East - January 23, 2012
Who gives out the sunglasses?
There will be headbands aplenty at the Pitt gamewatch this Saturday and at all home games for the rest of the season.
WarmupEwing - January 23, 2012
I would assume the Promotions arm in McD
They’ve given them out at times in the past. Stupid things are two small for my big head. Pete Kirschner is the head of it. Great guy.
PhillyHoya - January 23, 2012
suggest prisoner/swag swap
Middle of Key Bridge, noon on Saturday. Alone.
SirHoya - January 23, 2012
Be sure you're not on the same side of the bridge.
That way you can play in traffic.
DrTox - January 24, 2012
UGLY WIN = WIN
Ugly wins say a lot about a team. Mostly good. Ugly wins led by Freshmen are unbelievable. But don’t like to see our experienced players disappearing so often. It gets to be a bad habit.
Doug Gotlieb is just about the biggest jerk in college basketball. But he gets it right fairly often…..as much as it hurts. I can’t imagine him as a successful point guard though…………despite a whole lot of assists in the book. I know he couldn’t shoot as well as a middle schooler but I would be interested to see some tape on him. His teamates must have hated him too, right??
With paranoia,
hoyaparanoia - January 23, 2012
"income inequality and vegan recipes"
Wow, you’ve got the local paper nailed to a tee.
HoyaSmacksYa - January 23, 2012
I'm assuming you live in Providence?
sanityonleave - January 23, 2012
Nah, I only read the Phoenix when I'm up there
HoyaSmacksYa - January 23, 2012
Speaking of Providence
I saw that they were giving away Ed Cooley bobblehead dolls to the first 2,000 fans at the Marquette game this weekend. Did anyone get one? More importantly, was the back of his head faithfully reproduced with those chilling fungal bald spots?
TouomouIsMyHomie - January 23, 2012
George Will is an excellent baseball commentator.
Otherwise he is still trying to pump up the Regan years.
DrTox - January 24, 2012
Nothing to do with us (other than the shifting it may cause)
But I just love Eamonn Brennan:
“Duke at No. 6. Wait … Duke at No. 6?!? Either Duke lost to a good team at home Saturday, and Florida State deserves to be in the polls, or Duke isn’t that good, a close win at Cameron Indoor isn’t that impressive and FSU deserves to be ranked outside the Top 25. You can’t have it both ways. Naturally, the coaches’ poll does. The Blue Devils just lost to an unranked team on their home court. Their wins leading up to it — a near-escape over Virginia, uninspiring road wins over Clemson and Georgia Tech and a home blowout of Wake Forest — hardly spoke to this team’s overwhelming excellence. Anyone who has followed this squad closely this season, and anyone who saw Saturday’s loss to FSU, knows it was hardly a fluke: This team doesn’t defend anywhere near as well as we’ve come to expect from Duke teams, and its offense, which has been very good, relies on perimeter play and can be slowed by good man-to-man defensive schemes. Like, oh, Florida State’s. Sorry, but until this team’s defense ranks better than No. 89 in adjusted defensive efficiency, it is not the sixth-best team in the country. Not even close. "
HoyaJoker07 - January 23, 2012
There's definitely an argument to be made
that Georgetown should be ranked above UNC and Duke.
hoyasincebirth - January 23, 2012
Delusional
DrTox - January 24, 2012
Eamonn Brennan
The anti-Gottlieb
J-Wall's Mom's Broom - January 23, 2012
Anyone who tries to calm us down for our own good is a friend.
HoyaJoker07 - January 23, 2012
A rational analyst who's not blindly gaga over Duke?
Mr. Brennan’s future at ESPN doesn’t look too bright
rochesterhoya07 - January 23, 2012
sign him up for NBC sports
Down with the ESPN autocracy.
WallaceAtTheLineShooting2 - January 23, 2012 via mobile
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