Your Georgetown Fighting Hoyas had a nightmare ending to an otherwise impressive showing Saturday at Villanova. After 33 minutes of nip-and-tuck basketball, the Wildcats rattled off a 14-2 stretch run to break open a tie game, eventually prevailing 77-65. The Hoyas hung in until crunch time despite getting nothing from Jessie Govan and barely more from Mac McClung, their two leading scorers. But Georgetown couldn’t manufacture points in the game’s most critical sequence, and Villanova put the game away.
Today’s loss was in some ways heartening. The Hoyas proved they could hang with the conference’s best, even without the offensive contributions of their two biggest guns.