Georgetown

Daequan Cook (Ohio State)

Roy Hibbert (Georgetown)

Dominic James (Marquette)

Joseph Jones (Texas A&M)

Thaddeus Young (Georgia Tech)

NBA Draft: Jeff Green

 

Game 1: Ohio State 67, Georgetown 60

My three keys heading into the game:

1.      How would the Buckeyes defend Jeff Green?

Georgetown...when you say the name there's just a ring to it, especially if you grew up with basketball in the Northeast as I did. The 80s brought about excess, hip hop, drugs...and the Big East. All things that are brash, in your face, a departure from the establishment that not all were willing or able to embrace. Programs like Syracuse, St. John's and Villanova helped shape the Big East during that time, but it was Georgetown that gave the league its first "label".

With only two Big East teams still alive in the post-season, it’s time to give each program a final grade for the 2006-2007 season.  Grades are based primarily on each team’s record/performance during the season, with secondary consideration given to how its performance related to pre-season expectations. The Report Card is divided into two parts, the top half of the teams (up today), and the

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Georgetown (30-6)

Ohio State (34-3)

Best Performance: Greg Oden, Ohio State

One can only imagine Coach John Calipari’s reaction.

Trying to get ready for his Elite Eight showdown with the #1 team in the country, a team on a 20 game winning streak, he opens up the newspaper or turns on the TV and discovers what his star forward Joey Dorsey had been saying about his match-up with Greg Oden:

"I'm an underrated big man and he's a lot overrated as a big man."

"I'm going to have a 20-rebound night.."

"I'm Goliath… he's the little man."

In terms of individual performances there have been some major surprises this season in the Big East. Quite a few players who were picked to earn all-conference honors prior to the season did not live up to expectations, while others who were relatively unheralded have had outstanding seasons. Some players, of course, did live up to their advance billing and deserve to be considered for post-season awards.

Ohio State, Georgetown, Kansas and Florida are hitting their stride when it counts.

Russell Carter (Notre Dame - 18, 5, 2)

Aaron Gray (Pittsburgh - 15, 10, 2)

Jeff Green (Georgetown - 13, 6, 4)

Roy Hibbert (Georgetown - 13, 6. 1)

Dominic James (Marquette - 15, 3, 5)

Curtis Sumpter (Villanova - 17, 7, 1)

Other (McDermott, Nichols, etc, Discuss Below)