Georgetown goes down, busts brackets nationwide
Georgetown's Greg Monroe
This is the last time I’m gonna say anything about my bracket, because unlike a lot of writers, I realize three things: You don’t care about my bracket, you only care about your bracket, and vice versa.
That said, I had Georgetown going to the national championship game. Yeah, it was kind of a homer/favorite team pick — though not as bad as my grown cousin taking Washington to win the whole thing — but I really thought G’town had enough to make a deep run. Greg Monroe went from a wildly talented future Lottery pick last year to a wildly talented Lottery pick who wanted to dominate this year. Chris Wright finally seemed to “get it” and play like a true point guard. Austin Freeman was in better shape and scoring consistently against tough competition. They looked real solid in the Big East tournament, and had decisively beat No. 1 seeds Duke and Syracuse during the season.
So how the hell did they lose to 14-seed Ohio? Because they gave us Washington/Marquette on the West Coast (great game), I didn’t get to watch any of it until G’town was already down by almost 20 midway through the second half, but from what I could tell, Ohio just wouldn’t miss outside jumpers (56% 3PA), Monroe’s aggressiveness was in part thwarted by some ticky-tack calls, and the backcourt of Armon Bassett and D.J. Cooper simply lit the Hoyas up. Bassett dropped 32 points in Ohio’s relatively easy win, while Cooper had 23 and some backbreaking threes down the stretch. I sat there for like five minutes trying to think of an NBA player to compare Cooper to, and the best I could do is a left-handed Mo Williams.
Other than those two, though, my Dad put it best when he said, “These guys don’t even look like they’re supposed to be hanging with Georgetown.” Ohio’s roster is littered pimply-faced kids named Tommy and dudes with White ‘fros who look like they’re in their 30s.
After dropping 97 points on the Hoyas defense, we could see a 200-point game if Ohio gets Tennessee in the second round.
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March 18th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Gunner J. Matthews says:
TAKE THAT, TAKE THAT, TAKE THAT!!!!!
(btw: I dont care for march madness or have a bracket this year. I rather play than watch)
March 18th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Sam I Am says:
Austin….Why I have Georgetown winning it all too…
lol I came home from church and logged onto MSN.com and BOOM!!!
smacked me…i’m like “Wait is there another Georgetown in the tourney?”
lol “Weren’t we playing tomorrow??!?”
ahhhh down goes my ten bucks at work
March 18th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
BRUCE says:
It was that little Negro, he was running all over the place. Little Negro played the game of his life! Unconscious!
March 18th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Lsheezy says:
Damn G Town !!!! How the hell do you pop number one cuse in NY and then lose to OHIO and Notre Dame is soft as hell….Damn overrated big east !!! Had G town to the elite 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Ben1en says:
I had G’Town beating Ohio St. to get to the Elite 8. Georgetown has been inconsistent all year, they beat Duke by 12 but lost to Rutgers and USF by 4 and 8 respectively. Losing to Ohio is an embarrassment but seeing that they don’t have any seniors, hopefully they can get better from this. Chris Wright and Austin Freeman are likely to stay and I’m sure John Thompson will get some good recruits. This isn’t the last we hear of Georgetown. Well, actually for the 2009-2010 season-it is.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
the cynic says:
does it still count as an upset when you get your ass kicked?
March 19th, 2010 at 8:47 am
PrettyPaula says:
Yeah I had them beating Ohio State to get to the Elite Eight also….it sucks…my bracket’s busted and my heart is broke…I hate March!
March 19th, 2010 at 10:40 am
chris says:
i had gtown, too, to sweet sixteen, but ohio looked faster, bassett and cooper got off all the shots they wanted, for the entire game, gtowns guards could never get a hand in their face…my bracket is bent, not busted, cos there were so many other double digit seeds advancing (washington, murray st, st marys, olde dominione!
March 19th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Abe504 says:
G’town made my bracket go down in flames, waka flocka flames…..
March 19th, 2010 at 11:53 am
king says:
their offense lost them the game. they should’ve just force fed the ball inside from the jump instead of running all those back screen and fades that ended in bricked jumpers and a 10-2 defecit.. They had no one to match up with them inside and they just blew it.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Kenny says:
Looks like washington has a waaaaay better chance than the Hoyas Taaaaaaaaaaaaaah