Patrick Ewing’s Hoyas picked up their first Big East win on Tuesday since 2021. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
It’s been a tough go at Georgetown below Patrick Ewing.
But one of many darkest levels of Hoyas basketball is lastly over. Georgetown posted an 81-76 win over DePaul on Tuesday for its first Big East win of the season. In truth, it is Georgetown’s first Big East win in a number of seasons.
The win broke a 29-game regular-season Big East shedding streak that encompassed the whole 2021-22 marketing campaign and dates again to spring of 2021. They Hoyas’ final regular-season Big East win got here towards Xavier on March 2, 2021. They hadn’t gained a Big East sport of any sort since a 73-48 win over Creighton on March 13, 2021 to cap a convention event championship. It was an surprising run to the title after the Hoyas completed 7-9 within the Big East within the common season. It’s been all downhill from there.
Georgetown completed 0-19 in convention play and 6-25 total final season as strain mounted on Ewing in his fifth season as head coach. But Ewing, a Hall of Fame participant and program icon who led the Hoyas to a championship in 1984, returned in 2022. Things have not been significantly better.
The Hoyas acquired off to a 2-0 begin with wins over Coppin State and Green Bay. But they’d misplaced 15 of 18 video games since coming into Tuesday, together with 9 straight in Big East play. Tuesday’s win broke a 10-game total shedding streak courting again to a Dec. 7 win over Siena. The Hoyas improved to 6-15 total and 1-9 in convention play. One win is not a lot within the grand scheme. But it was aid from unprecedented program futility.
Sophomore guard Primo Spears led the best way on Tuesday with 21 factors, six assists and 4 rebounds. Georgetown allowed DePaul to shoot 49.2% from the sector and 46.7% (7 of 15) from 3-point distance. But the Hoyas discovered their edge with quantity on the free throw line, the place they they related on 27 of 41 (65.9%) makes an attempt, greater than doubling DePaul’s 11-of-19 (57.9%) output. Georgetwon restricted itself to seven turnovers whereas DePaul gave up the ball 12 instances.
The Hoyas will look to make it a two-game profitable streak after they go to St. John’s on Sunday.
