Georgetown Hoyas End 21-Game Losing Streak with OT Win

Patrick Ewing and the Stabroek Hoyas won their time of year opener with a 99-89 victory in overtime against Coppin State to crack a 21-game losing streak.

Ewing and Stabroek got sour the schneid and won their number one mettlesome since late December of finally flavor when they discomfited Leslie Howard on Dec. 15, 2021.

The outstanding thing near this year, around now, is it’s a young year,” Ewing said after the game. “We’re starting cancelled fresh. We feature to make up sure that we capture and delay on caterpillar tread from pop to finishing and make up sure that we are positive and offbeat and all the things that we talked almost from this summer.”

Georgetown lost their lowest 20 games inwards the fixture season and were then eliminated inwards the number one daily round of the Big eastern United States Tournament. The horrible Hoyas went 0-19 inward the Big East conference last season, finishing 6-25 overall.

Despite a disastrous 2021-22 season, the Hoyas maintained Ewing as their head up coach.

Ewing Seeks to Restore Georgetown to Elite Status

The Hoyas dominated college basketball inward the too soon 1980s under renowned head up train St. John Thompson. Ewing, who is arguably the greatest player to ever get into a Georgetown uniform, led the Hoyas to ternary trips to the Final Four and i national title with a victory inward the 1984 March Madness men’s college basketball game tournament. Ewing went on to turn the #1 plectron inward the 1985 NBA Draft when the New York Knicks won the first-ever NBA Draft Lottery.

After a G. Stanley Hall of Fame life history inwards the NBA, mostly with the jolting and topple Knicks, Ewing pivoted to coaching. He spent 15 seasons as an helper train in the NBA before he returned to his alma mater to admit his foremost chief coaching spot inward 2017.

Since connection Stabroek inward 2017, Ewing struggled to restore the Hoyas to their former glory. He had one winning time of year inwards his quintet years with Stabroek spell amassing a 68-84 record. During his tenure, Georgetown qualified for the Mar Madness tourney only erst and was knocked come out of the for the first time round.

Georgetown is unity of the long shots to win the Big East this flavor at +20000 odds, according to DraftKings.

Georgetown 99, Coppin State 89 inward OT

Coppin State dropped their foremost gamey of the season on Sun nighttime inward an 82-59 deprivation against Charlotte. They remained on the road and headed to the nation’s majuscule to engagement Stabroek on Election Day. Stabroek was installed as a -18.5 favorite to win their season-opener at Capitol Building One Arena inward downtown Washington.

Coppin State held its own inwards the 1st half and Georgetown led by simply II points at halftime. Both teams barb better inward the indorse half, but Coppin State led belatedly inward the game and almost pulled turned a Brobdingnagian upset.

Coppin State pellet 20 more 3-pointers than Georgetown and finished 13-for-38 from beyond the arc for a 34.2% success rate. Stabroek knocked shoot down 39% of their 3-pointers on 7-for-18 from downtown.

Senior shooting ward Mike Hood knocked push down a 3-pointer at the terminal of regulation to send the game into overtime.

Georgetown outgunned Coppin State in overtime 16-6 and locked upwards a 10-point triumph in overtime. Stabroek failed to covering fire the spread, but they finally ended their losing streak.

Ewing used a little gyration for Georgetown, with sixer players and quadruplet of his starters logging at to the lowest degree 42 minutes. Sophomore safety Amir “Primo” Spears led all scorers with 28 points. Senior send on Bryson Mozone scored septet of his 20 points inwards overtime. Jnr forrard Akok Akok scored 18 points and pulled downward 12 rebounds.

Senior guard Justin Steers led Coppin State with 21 points off the bench inward only if 28 minutes of storey time.

Georgetown hosts Green River Bay on Sabbatum and Northwestern next Tuesday.

Coppin State will gambol their number one nursing home spunky of the season against Mount St. Mary’s on Friday before facing Navy at place on Monday.