A tumultuous week of national and local media coverage on Georgetown basketball’s demise that featured former players and students calling for a coaching change came to a dispiriting end Saturday when Georgetown folded down the stretch of an 81-55 blowout at the hands of its biggest conference rival, #2 Villanova. The loss was the Hoyas’ fifth straight and seven in eight games, an ugly end to Georgetown’s second straight losing season.
Saturday was a contrast between two programs that were once thought to be the standard-bearers for the new Big East but instead have diverged dramatically. For the past four years, Villanova has fulfilled its end of the bargain, winning 63 of 72 conference games since realignment and all four regular season conference titles.