SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010
KLMNO COLLEGE BASKETBALL
For Hoyas’ opposition, disaster comes in threes
Georgetown’s 6-0 start comes via good outside shooting
BY TARIK EL-BASHIR It didn’tmatter if Austin Free-
man spotted up in the left cor- ner, the right corner, at the top of the arc or whether there was a defender on him. If the George- town senior launched a shot frombehind the three-point line Saturday, chances are it went in.
GEORGETOWN UNC ASHEVILLE 87 72 Freeman tied a single-game
school record for three pointers with seven and finished with a game-high 32 points in only 27 minutes as the 16th-ranked Hoyas overwhelmed UNC Asheville, 87-72, at Verizon Cen- ter in a contest that was not closer than a dozen points in the second half. “I wanted to be aggressive,
take good shots and not force anything,” Freeman said. “I hit a couple and felt like I was able to takemore shots andmake them. When you’re open and your teammates find you, you just have to knock the shot down.” Freeman’s point total was the
second highest of his career, coming up one point short of his memorable 33-point perfor- mance last season against Con- necticut. He missed only two attempts fromthree-point range and in the process equaled a school record shared by Mark Tillmon (1990 vs. Providence) and Darrel Owens (2005 vs. South Carolina). The Hoyas, meantime, improved to 6-0 for the second straight season and 12-0 all-time against opponents fromthe Big South. “Really, he might break [the record] before the year is over,”
Coach John Thompson III said. “He was hot. His teammates did a good job of getting him the ball.He put it up, it went in.” After the score was tied at 7
with 16 minutes 47 seconds left in the first half, Freeman sank a trio of three-pointers in the span of 67 seconds to spark a 23-0 run that, in effect, ended the compet- itive portion of the game. Free- man also converted his third four-point play of the season during that decisive stretch, while the Bulldogs misfired 11 times and turned over the ball six times. “We knewwe had to take away
the three-point shot, and we weren’t good enough to do it,” UNC Asheville Coach Eddie Bie- denbach said. “They are a very good basketball that doesn’t beat themselves.” Asked to compare the Hoyas
to No. 25 North Carolina, which held off the Bulldogs, 80-69, on Tuesday, Biedenbach said: “Right now, at this point, Georgetownis
better.They shoot it better. Georgetown’s guards are superior to North Carolina’s guards. But I think [Tar Heels Coach] Roy Williams would tell you that.” If UNC Asheville had any
chance of making a game of it, that opportunity seemed to pres- ent itself at the start of the secondhalf afterMattDickey cut the Hoyas’ lead to 44-29 on the Bulldogs’ first possession. But Georgetown responded with back-to-back three-pointers from Hollis Thompson (11 points, 10 rebounds) and Free- man, who was 11 of 15 overall from the floor and has connect- ed on almost 58 percent (19 of 33) of his three-pointers this season. “It was like NBA Live,” Hoyas
forward Julian Vaughn joked about Freeman’s performance, referencing the video game. Vaughn, meanwhile, has qui-
etly put together a solid stretch of games since returning from an illness that kept him out
against Tulane on Nov. 15. He posted his first career double- double against Wofford on Nov. 19 and collected a season-high 16 points and nine rebounds on Saturday.His best work, though, came at the defensive end,where he blocked three shots and al- tered countless others. “I’mnot focused on individual
stats,” Vaughn said when asked about being overshadowed by guards Freeman, Chris Wright and Jason Clark. “We have a lot of explosive talent in the back court and we have to exploit it if we
can.Mymainthing,mentally, before every game is going out, trying to rebound, block shots and be a presence.” Wright scored only three
points but finished with nine assists, aneffort that drewpraise from Thompson. The senior point guard turned his right ankle early inthe secondhalf but later returned and said after- ward that he expects to be fine. “If you look at the stat sheet,
[Wright] did a good job getting [Freeman] the ball,” Thompson said. “Chris was able to suck the defense in to himand kick it out to open shooters,” As a team, theHoyas shot of 13
of 25 from three-point range. In six games, they’ve taken 43 per- cent or more of their shots for the game from behind the arc three times. “We have an experienced
enough group where they have a feel for, ‘Okay we’re taking too many threes,’ ” Thompson said. “I don’t think many, if any of those, were bad shots today.” Formost of the past game and
a half, the Hoyas haven’t been challenged. That, however, is expected to
change in the coming three weeks as the Hoyas take on No. 11 Missouri in Kansas City on Tuesday,play atNo. 21Temple on Dec. 9 and travel to No. 14 Memphis on Dec. 23. “We’re a work in progress,”
Thompson said. “We are grow- ing. There’s still a lot of roomfor
JONATHAN ERNST FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Georgetown senior Austin Freeman scored 32 points in only 27 minutes againstUNCAsheville.He made seven three-pointers.
growth in that locker room. It’s important that we continue to get better, continue to havemore guys that when put themin [the
game], there won’t be a drop off. I think we are slowly getting to that point.”
elbashirt@washpost.com
Obama sees his brother-in-law’s teamoutlast Bison 84 74
BY KATHY ORTON There had to be times during
Saturday afternoon’s game when HowardCoachKevinNickelberry looked up into the stands and wished he could put President Obama or Education Secretary ArneDuncaninthe game. Nickelberry could have used
Obama, who looked none the worseafter takinganelbowtothe mouth in a basketball game Fri- day and receiving 12 stitches in his lip, and Duncan, the former Harvard standout. The Bison, who have been savaged by inju- ries this season, were desperate for bodies when two players fouledout of the game. Though undermanned, How-
ard was undaunted. The Bison put up quite a fight against Ore- gonState before finally succumb- ing, 84-74, before 1,827 at Burr Gymnasium. “That’s a good team. It’s a Pac-
10 team,” Nickelberry said. “We stayed close. We battled, but the bottomlineiswehadtwoor three walk-ons [onthe court] downthe stretch.” Obama — who was joined by
his wife, daughters and mother- in-law, all wearing Oregon State orange — came to watch his brother-in-law, Beavers Coach Craig Robinson. This was the third college basketball game Obama has attended in the Dis-
AREAROUNDUP Rogers scores 28 as Georgetown women top No. 4 Tennessee l VIRGINIA 59, TCU 55: Chel-
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Sugar Rodgers scored 28
points to leadNo. 12Georgetown to a 69-58 victory over No. 4 Tennessee on Saturday in the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Monica McNutt added 13
points for the Hoyas (5-1), who opened the game on an 11-4 run and never trailed. Rodgers and McNutt combined for nine three-pointers for Georgetown, which won the tournament’s Reef Division. Glory Johnson scored 13
points and Meighan Simmons added 11 for the Lady Vols (6-1). McNutt’s third three-pointer
opened a 26-15 lead for the Hoyas. Tennessee had 29 turn- overs.
sea Shine scored 20 points as the Cavaliers knocked offNo. 21TCU in a consolation game at the Paradise Jam. Lexie Gerson and Paulisha
Kellumadded 10 points each for theCavaliers (4-3),who ralliedto take a 55-53 lead with 38.7 sec- onds left. Micah Garoutte had a chance to get the Frogs (3-3) within one with 12 seconds left, but the senior’s layup rolled out. Shemade one of two free throws, but Virginia added two more foul shots down the stretch. l MARYLAND 82, MASSA-
CHUSETTS50: FreshmanAlyssa Thomas scored 15 points as the No. 23 Terrapins beat the Minutewomen in their final game in the Pirate Invitational in Greenville, N.C. Tianna Hawkins added 14 points forMaryland (5-1), which
shot 54 percent, turned 20 Mas- sachusetts turnovers into 30 points and dominated the glass in winning its fourth straight. Megan Zullo had 14 points for
UMass (0-5). TheMinutewomen shot 33 percent. Diandra Tchatchouang and
Lynetta Kizer scored 11 points apiece for Maryland, which had a 47-25 rebounding advantage and led 39-19 at halftime. l FLORIDA 52, NAVY 43: The
Gators (5-1) outscored the Mid- shipmen by a 13-2 margin over the final nine minutes in the championship game of the Dead River Company Classic hosted by the University of Maine in Orono,Maine. The scorewas tiedseventimes
and the lead changed hands on 14 occasions. Neither team held a lead of more than four points until the last twominutes ofplay.
AudreyBauer scored 13 points
forNavy (4-2). AngelaMyershad 10 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists. l LSU 69, HOWARD 39: La-
Sondra Barrett scored 17 points and Adrienne Webb had 16 points to lead the Tigers (4-3) over the Lady Bison in theWorld Vision Challenge in Storrs, Ct. SaadiaDoyle scored 21 points
for Howard (2-5). The Lady Bi- son were held to 28.6 shooting from the floor, while LSU shot just under 50 percent (26 for 53). l TEXAS TECH 63, AMERI-
CAN 37: The Eagles played the Red Raiders nearly even in the second period but couldn’t over- come a 36-11 halftime deficit in Lubbock, Texas. Alexis Dobbs led American
(2-4) with 10 points. Texas Tech (6-0) was led by Teena Wickett with 13 points.
Mason beats Fla. Atlantic Mike Morrison’s big second
half paced a balanced attack as George Mason defeated Florida Atlantic, 66-51, in Fairfax. Morrison scored 14 of his 18
points after halftime and shot 8 for 10 from the field for the Patriots (4-2),who had four play- ers in double figures. The junior added seven rebounds and three blocked shots as George Mason won its second straight and re- mained unbeaten at home. Greg Gantt had 15 points to
lead Florida Atlantic (3-4), which lost its third straight. Luke Hancock had 14 points,
six rebounds and seven assists for GeorgeMason. The Patriots shot 58 percent
(26 for 48) fromthe field, getting several easy baskets behindgood ball movement that resulted in assists on 17 baskets.
MARK GAIL/THE WASHINGTON POST
Alphonso Leary reaches for a loose ball before Jared Cunningham can get to
it.Acrowd of 1,827 was on hand at Burr Gymnasium.
trict as president. Last season, he went to GeorgeWashington, also to watch Oregon State, and at- tended the Georgetown-Duke game atVerizonCenter. From the tip, the players
seemed a bit preoccupied by Obama’s presence. Both teams
combined for 10 turnovers in the first fiveminutes. “I was kind of shocked when I
saw him, a little nervous,” said Bison sophomore forwardDadri- an Collins (Montrose Christian). “This ismy first time seeing him in person. It was a good experi-
ence.Wewere a little too excited, wantedtomakeplays.” Oregon State (3-2) settled
down first. The Beavers, taking advantage of Howard’s zone de- fense, sank back-to-back three- pointers to take a 19-11 lead. ThentheBison(1-5) foundtheir
poise, using a 9-0 run to take a one-point lead. Collins (15 points, sevenassists)keyedthesurgewith oneofhis three three-pointers. The teams tradedbasketsuntil
the end of the half with Howard going into the locker roomwith a 33-32 lead. In the second half, Oregon
State appeared ready to runaway with the game, going up 64-50. ButHowardwouldn’t go away. The Bison have lost two key
players for the season with torn anterior cruciate ligaments—ju- nior guard Calvin Thompson, a preseason second-team all-Mid- Eastern Athletic Conference se- lection, and freshman center Theodore Boyomo. Their only se- nior, guardKyleRiley,hasmissed thepast fourgameswithanankle injury. Andyet,HowardhadaPacific-
10 Conference teamstruggling to pull out a win by getting unex- pected contributions fromsever- alplayers.
OREGON STATE HOWARD SophomoreguardAntonDick-
erson, whose previous career high had been eight points, scored 24 on 7-of-16 shooting. Sophomore forward Gary Law- rence recorded his first double- double, finishing with 11 points and11 rebounds. Eventually, Howard, which
hasn’t won a game since its sea- son opener, just didn’t have enough size or bench depth to pull off the upset. But the Bison can take away many positives fromthe game, including out-re- bounding theBeavers, 46-34. After the game, Obama shook
handswiththeOregonStateplay- ers while Robinson hugged his sister andnieces. Robinson, who is in his third
season at the school, has brought his team to Washington each of the last three years. This is its second trip to Howard. Oregon State isnow2-1 inD.C. “Whatwe’re trying to do is give
our guys a good experience on the court and culturally,” Robinson said.“Theygotachancetotourthe WhiteHouse [on Friday].My first year we toured the Capitol. Next yearwe’ll probably try something else. It’sgettingharderandharder for us to schedule games out here. . . . In fairness to the other schools in the area, it’s nice if we can spread it around a little bit. But if wedon’tgetanyother takers,we’ll takewhatwe canget.”
ortonk@washpost.com
NATIONALMEN
No. 10 Purdue upended by Richmond
ASSOCIATED PRESS Kevin Anderson scored 28
points to lead Richmond to a 65-54 victory over No. 10 Purdue on Saturday night in the Chicago Invitational Challenge champi- onship game. The win was the Spiders’ first
over a top 10 team since a 69-68 victory at then-No. 10 Kansas in 2004 and their sixth over any ranked teamsince 2007-08. Justin Harper had 14 points
and Darien Brothers added 11 for the Spiders (6-1). The Boilermakers (5-1) were
plagued by poor shooting for the second straight game. They were 4 for 25 (16 percent) in the first half and 16 for 53 (30.2 percent) for the game. E’Twaun Moore led Purdue
with 16 points, while JaJuan Johnson had 13 points and 11 rebounds and reserve John Hart added 12 points. l DUKE 98, OREGON 71: Kyle
Singler had 30 points and five rebounds to lead the No. 1 Blue Devils to a victory over theDucks in a homecoming game against his little brother E.J in Portland, Ore. The game was dubbed by one
fan as “The SinglerMingler.” The brothers grew up in Medford, Ore., about 275miles to the south of where the game was played at the Rose Garden. The Blue Devils open 6-0 for
the fourth straight season, and 18th overall, under Mike Krzyze- wski. The win extended Duke’s winning streak to 16 games. E.J. Singler, a sophomore for-
ward, scored 14 points, all in the second half, for Oregon (4-2). l PITTSBURGH 82, PENN 58:
Nasir Robinson, still healing from knee surgery, led the No. 5 Panthers’ 15-0 run to close the first half and Pittsburgh used its bench extensively while beating the Quakers in Pittsburgh. The Panthers, the first Divi-
sion I team to get to 7-0, could move up to No. 3 in the Associat- ed Press poll following losses this week byNo. 2Michigan State and No. 4 Kansas State. Ashton Gibbs scored 12 points
and Dante Taylor and freshman J.J. Moore added 11 each as Pitt Coach Jamie Dixon used 11 play- ers throughout, all of them scor- ing andplayingdouble-digitmin- utes. The Panthers shot 52.6 percent
(30 of 57) even as Dixon went deeper on his bench than he has in any other game this season. l SYRACUSE 80, GEORGIA
TECH 76: Kris Joseph shook off early foul trouble to score 19 points and lead the No. 9 Orange to a victory over the Yellow Jack- ets to win the Legends Classic in Atlantic City. Scoop Jardine had 15 points
and eight assists to keep Syracuse (6-0) on track for an undefeated start heading into their game against No. 2 Michigan State on Dec. 7 atMadisonSquareGarden. Brian Oliver scored a career-
high 32 points and grabbed six rebounds for Georgia Tech (4-2). l ILLINOIS 78, WESTERN
MICHIGAN 63: In Kalamazoo, Mich., the No. 19 Illini played perhaps their best first half of the season, at least according to Coach BruceWeber. The first 20 minutes were a
springboard forMike Tisdale’s 18 points and seven rebounds, and Illinois beat the Broncos. Illinois led 49-24 at halftime, its biggest advantage in the game. Brandon Paul added 14 points
and DemetriMcCamey had eight points and 10 assists for the Illini (6-1), who have won three straight since losing to Texas in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Matt Stainbrook led Western
Michigan (1-3)with 16 points and Nate Hutcheson contributed 15. Mike Douglas had nine points and seven assists. l TEXAS 62, RICE 59: Cory
Joseph made a layup with 37 seconds to play and the Long- horns survived an upset scare when the Owls missed a three- pointer to tie it at the buzzer in Austin. Joseph had 14 points and Jor-
dan Hamilton scored 13 for Tex- as, whichmade nine three-point- ers in the second half but couldn’t put the game away from the free throw line in the final seconds. Texas (5-1) made just three
two-point field goals in the sec- ond half. Arsalan Kazemi scored 13 points for Rice (3-3).
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