Your Fighting Hoyas of Georgetown opened up its series of exhibition games in Italy with a 74-64 victory over Haukar Basket, a professional team from Iceland. For comparison purposes, Marquette defeated this same team by 5 points earlier this week.
Freshman forward Marcus Derrickson led the Hoyas with 20 points on an impressive array of three-point shooting and play under the basket. The Hoyas played without star guard D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera, who is still recovering from an anke injury suffered this summer. With DSR sidelined, Jessie Govan, Isaac Copeland, Paul White, L.J. Peak and Tre Campbell earned starting nods for the Hoyas.