AD Report: Hopes Dashed in OT
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Hoyas Fall to South Carolina in Overtime
WASHINGTON – The Georgetown men’s basketball team fell to South Carolina 74-71 in overtime at Capital One Arena on Saturday afternoon. A trio of Hoyas scored in double figures on the day. With the setback, Georgetown moves to 4-5 on the season while South Carolina moves to 4-4.
“I thought we started the game out flat, that's why I called an early time out. [In the] second half we started flat again, that's why I called another time out at the beginning of the second half. We didn’t execute well enough offensively. GG had no points at half time and he ended up with 22 … At the end of overtime when they got that three we couldn’t come up with a rebound. In those times of the game that's when we’ve got to be able to buckle down and get a stop. We got the stop but we couldn’t come up with the rebound."
● Heath led all scorers with 23 points on 7-of-14 (50.0%) shooting and a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line.
● Spears tallied 18 points on 8-of-18 shooting and was active on both sides of the ball with three assists and three steals.
● Murray had 13 points on 5-of-14 shooting and also had five assists, three steals and drew six fouls
● Qudus Wahab had nine rebounds leading GU on the glass and also tallied a pair of steals.
● Georgetown shot 43.1% (28-65) for the game but allowed 45.2% (28-62) shooting from the Gamecocks.
● South Carolina outrebounded the Hoyas 39-36 but the Blue & Gray forced 16 turnovers while committing just nine. The Hoyas were able to convert those turnovers to 23 paints.
● Jay Heath got the Hoyas on the board first knocking down a pair of free throws two minutes in. After trading buckets, Heath knocked down a triple to knot the game at 10 (13:43), sparking a 13-2 run for the Hoyas.
● Despite South Carolina trimming the lead to four (21-17; 8:13), Spears’ back-to-back buckets pushed GU’s lead back to eight. 25-17.
● The Gamecocks continued to chip away, cutting the lead to as little as five (29-24; 4:23) but GU’s defense held South Carolina to just two points on a pair of free throws through the remainder of the frame. GU went into the locker room with the 37-26 advantage.
● SC came out of the gates hot in the second half and cut the lead to five (39-34) before an 8-2 Hoya run, bookended by an Akok Akok putback and alleyoop, pushed the lead back to 11 (47-36; 15:42), forcing the Gamecocks to call a timeout.
● South Carolina would not go away in the second half as Gregory “GG” Jackson poured in all of his 22 points in the second stanza and took a 64-61 lead with 2:26 to play before a Murray layup through traffic pulled the Blue & Gray within one (64-63).
● With less than five seconds left in regulation, a Spears bucket pushed the Hoyas ahead one but a late free throw would knot things up at 65 as the horn blew, forcing overtime.
● The Gamecocks would never trail in the extra frame and with the game knotted at 71, South Carolina knocked down a second-chance dagger for the 74-71 overtime victory.
UP NEXT
The Hoyas remain home in the District to host Siena on Wednesday, December 7. Tipoff at Capital One Arena is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the game will be broadcast live on FS2 with Dan Kolko calling the play-by-play and John Giannini providing analysis. Fans can hear the radio call of Rich Chvotkin, in his 49th season as the Voice of the Hoyas, on 1580 AM and Sirius XM 380.