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‘The rock star tour’
Flores to doctor’s office
Ask Boswell Today, 11 a.m. Columnist Thomas Boswell talks Stephen Strasburg’s debut and spring training.
The Wizards will play five games
The Nats send Jesús
over six nights in four cities. D6
Flores, who has
The 65 chat Today, noon Join Eric Prisbell as he chats about the ACC tournament and March Madness.
struggled to rehab from
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
shoulder surgery, to
Redskins Insider Keep tabs on the team’s progress in free agency and its draft preparations.
Not half-bad
visit James Andrews. D3
Despite criticisms of a down
season, half the ACC’s teams are All I know is, I don’t want to be the first one to lose to her.” A D.C. coach on
in good shape for NCAA bids. D7
Coolidge High’s Natalie Randolph, believed to be the only female varsity football coach in the U.S. A1
Hoyas win, no
“
w comes the test
Capitals
get back
Georgetown beats ice-cold
South Florida; next up is
on track
top-seeded Syracuse
by Liz Clarke
with win
new york — It was the ragged sort of
game that casts doubt on the wisdom of
expanding the Big East tournament to a
No longer scratched,
16-team, five-day marathon of college Fleischmann nets
basketball. But for Georgetown fans who
goal in overtime
suffered through last season’s first-round
tournament ouster, the only statistic that
mattered Wednesday at Madison Square by Tarik El-Bashir
Garden was that the Hoyas outscored
their opponent, defeating a woefully mis- One game after sitting out as a
firing South Florida squad, 69-49, to ad- healthy scratch, Tomas Fleischmann
vance to Thursday’s quarterfinals. proved to be the one player the Wash-
Their next opponent: top-seeded Syra- ington Capitals couldn’t do without
cuse (28-3), the only team to have beaten Wednesday night.
Georgetown twice this season. To avoid a After his team blew an early two-
three-game sweep, the Hoyas will have to goal lead at Verizon Center, Fleisch-
play far better than they did in vanquish- mann scored the winner in overtime
ing a self-destructing South Florida to lift the Capitals to a hard-fought, if
squad in Wednesday’s second-round sloppy, 4-3 victory over the Carolina
meeting. Hurricanes.
Georgetown (21-9) was led by sopho- “It’s just a little message,” Fleisch-
more center Greg Monroe and guard Ja- mann joked in the jubilant home
son Clark, who scored 16 points each. dressing room afterward, “don’t sit
Junior guard Chris Wright added 15, me out again.”
while Austin Freeman managed eight Coach Bruce Boudreau might not
points on 3-of-12 shooting. be able to avoid it, though, as he jug-
While the victory surely helped build gles 15 NHL-caliber forwards vying
momentum and bolster the Hoyas’ case for 12 spots. But for one night, at
for a reasonably high seed in the NCAA least, Boudreau certainly was glad he
tournament, it was dubious preparation put the Czech winger in the lineup.
for Syracuse, which boasts the league’s “I hear him,” Boudreau said, laugh-
highest shooting percentage (51.5) and ing. “He’s a good player. If the cir-
largest average margin of victory (15.3 cumstances aren’t what they are, he
points per game). wouldn’t be sitting out.”
At no point on Wednesday was South Mike Green scored two goals on an
Florida an offensive threat, leading just
once, at 6-4. The Bulls (20-12) hit just 30.2 capitals continued on D5
percent of its shots, and the statistics
would have been unspeakable without
Big East first-team honoree Dominique
Jones, who accounted for 21 of his team’s
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Big East tournament schedule
At Madison Square Garden in New York
Final to be played Saturday, 9 p.m.
Second round Quarterfi nals Semifi nals
Wednesday Thursday Friday
S. Florida 49
[8] Georgetown
NOON (ESPN)
Georgetown 69
[1] Syracuse
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
7 P.M.
Caps forward Tomas Fleischmann
[5] Marquette
(ESPN)
celebrates the overtime game-
St. John’s 55
2 P.M. (ESPN)
winner, scored with 1:40 left.
[4] Villanova
Marquette 57
Redskins
Seton Hall 56
[7] Notre Dame
LATE GAME
7 P.M. (ESPN)
Notre Dame 68
agree on
[2] Pittsburgh
9 P.M.
(ESPN)
deal with
[11] Cincinnati
9 P.M. (ESPN)
LATE GAME
[3] West Virginia
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Kemoeatu
[6] Louisville
South Florida’s Dominique Jones offers little resistance as Georgetown guard Chris Wright sails in for a basket in the first half.
by Rick Maese
Why is this team so enigmatic? It’s a mystery to me. By locking up a new nose tackle,
the Washington Redskins brought
new york smiles to at least two players Wednes-
A
t times, Georgetown’s soft gray day.
uniforms can seem like cloaks of Less than eight months after tear-
invisibility. The Hoyas have a ing his Achilles’ tendon, Maake Ke-
tendency to evaporate before your eyes; moeatu agreed to a two-year contract
they are a team of baffling lapses and worth as much as $7 million and ap-
strange vanishings. If they don’t find a parently will have a shot to start on
way to be more fully present, they’re the Redskins’ revamped defensive
liable to disappear from the Big East
SALLY JENKINS
line.
tournament in the next round. If Kemoeatu is healthy enough to
Who are these guys, anyway? Are they game-breaking 13-4 run. To Coach John play in the fall, Albert Haynesworth
the top 10 team that for a while seemed Thompson III’s relief, they found some could find himself moving from nose
capable of beating anybody, including focus. “I thought our guys did a good job tackle to defensive end, a position
Duke and Villanova? Or are they just a of weathering the storm,” he said. that might allow him more freedom
second-cut squad that dropped four of It was good enough to advance to the to chase quarterbacks.
their last six games coming into quarterfinals, but will it be enough to Kemoeatu, who stands 6 feet 5 and
postseason? They are maddeningly fend off top-seeded Syracuse in the next weighs 345 pounds, has anchored the
indistinct, and they showed both aspects round? Probably not. If a 20-point Carolina Panthers’ line since 2006,
of themselves in a 69-49 victory over victory can be foreboding, somehow this but he missed all of last season after
South Florida at Madison Square one was. tearing his Achilles’ tendon in train-
Garden on Wednesday afternoon. Superficially, the Hoyas have all the ing camp. He has had two surgeries to
They got in serious foul trouble and pieces: guards who can ripple the nets, repair the injury and is still un-
let the Bulls — a team suffering from as Chris Wright and Jason Clark did dergoing rehabilitation. His agent
laughable shooting woes; we’re talking with 15 and 16 points, respectively; an says he should be ready to play when
clunkers and air balls — hang around for imposing and alive inside presence in
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
training camp opens in five months.
way too long. Yet they overcame their Jerrelle Benimon, left, and Greg Monroe tie things up with South Florida
issues with a high-energy, jenkins continued on D8 ballhandler Augustus Gilchrist. Now top-seeded Syracuse awaits the Hoyas. redskins continued on D3
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