After three straight quality wins, the last over their historic rival, and weeks of program turbulence, your Georgetown Hoyas would have been forgiven a bit of an exhale Tuesday night when they hosted lowly UMBC. A letdown might have been expected for a mid-week, mid-December, mid-finals, non-conference match-up in front of, at best, several dozen friends and family. But Georgetown barely missed a beat, scoring the game’s first 14 points en route to an easy 81-55 win. Omer Yurtseven powered home 22 points and 13 rebounds, both game highs, to lead four Hoyas in double figures.
While, ahem, casual, Georgetown’s fourth straight victory wasn’t exactly pretty early on.