Guess who’s back? Hey young world, it’s your’s take it!
What a game for the old blue and gray! Looked like the Gtown of old. The press, press, press! Keep it up! Now, that’s what you call a “super sense of urgency from the Hoyas. The Hoya press was the best, and will always be. More, more more. This was a big and tough win on the home front for Hoyanation. After a Gtown timeout, there was 4:47 left the Hoyas were down by 11 points. D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera attacked the crafty Blue Jay point guard Maurice Watson, Jr. and was fouled. DSR went to the free throw line and knocked down both free throws pulling the Hoyas within nine points. Soon after, DSR’s senior leadership went on display. His defensive skills set in. A big steal by the senior quickly gave the Hoyas energy and momentum. The crowd was going crazy. It was electrifying. DSR assisted super sophomore L. J. “Peakshow” Peak for the layup, but Creighton kept up their attack.
Senior center Bradley Hayes countered and gave the Hoyas 2 more points. Score 68-59. 3:01 to go in the the game. Blue Jays point guard Maurice Watson, would not go away. He’d been creating havoc all night for his team made a layup at the 2:34 mark to keep his team up by 11 points. “He’s definitely one of the toughest guards in our conference,” Smith-Rivera said. “Tonight, we tried to close out on him, make him make plays over the top rather than drive it by us and let him get open looks.”
This is where it gets REAL! Freshman Marcus Derrickson, knocks down a HUGE three pointer with 2:13 left in the game. I could tell his shot was going to fall. He gracefully took his time, set his feet, and that was all she wrote. Hoyas were within eight point with enough time to win this game.
The Hoyas, after Derrickson’s 3, called a Hoya timeout. After this timeout, Blue Jay Isaiah Zierdan missed a big three pointer that could’ve put his team back up by 11. On the rebounding end was the seldom played, walk on Riyan Williams (Son of legendary Reggie Williams). Good rebound Riyan!
The score was still 70-62 with 1:40 to go in the game. Williams was fouled. He went to the free throw line making only one free throw by the Hoyas were within seven points now. After a foul by Hoyas’ Derrickson the Blue Jay’s went to the free throw line only to make one free throw. Score 71-63 with 1:32 to go.
With 1:32 remaining in the game can you imagine what’s in the fan’s minds, better yet, the player’s ad coaches minds? It was about go hard or go home. If you want it, you have to take it! It’s almost February!
Well, it wet down like this. DSR was fouled. He knocked down only one free throw, but off of his missed free throw the Hoyas went and took a HUGE rebound giving the Hoyas the ball again. Score 71-64. Hoyas within seven points. Still enough time to win the game. DSR lays the ball back in. Score 71-66. Oh boyyyy, can you feel it!!!
With 1:10 got go in the game Marcus Derrickson makes a big steal kicks, it out to DSR, and he gets fouled again, so he’s back to the free throw line knocking down both of his free throws!!! Score 71-68 here we go!!! Off of the mighty Gtown press it was the other freshman Kaleb Johnson, who stepped up with another huge steal, this time from Mr. Havoc himself, Maurice Watson.
Johnson, glides to the basket in transition for the dunk. Score 71-70. All of sudden, with only .45 seconds left in the game Riyan Williams commits a foul some would call silly, but anyways this put a Blue Jay on the free throw line knocking both free throws. Blue Jays back up by 3 points. Oh, boy, what do you do now?
Well, Creighton called a timeout with .45 seconds left in the game. Thank you! The Hoyas needed this! Junior Reggie Cameron showed great poise tipping in a two pointer off a L. J. Peak miss. Nice follow up tip in Reggie Cam! Score 73-72! Guess what? A foul on the sophomore Isaac Copeland, but the free throw was missed and none other than Peak goes and gets another huge rebound.
What’s so great about this is in order for the Hoyas to cut off the head of the monster (point guard) they had to foul him out. This strategy worked. “Coach Thompson said his team was fortunate that Watson picked up his fifth foul on Smith-Rivera’s drive that led to the two winning free throws with 6.2 seconds remaining.”
“Watson doesn’t make mistakes. He just doesn’t,” Thompson said. “We were fortunate D’Vauntes drew a foul on him because we were siting there with seconds left.
“If that little kid was in there, who knows would happen?”
With only six seconds to go, DSR went to the free throw line to knock down two more free throws to win the game 73-74!!! Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win, Hoyas win! Now, that’s how you go and get it. IT’S ALMOST FEBRUARY! Let’s go Hoyas!!! We Are Georgetown!
I had been talking about this the last time we played at Creighton. “One of the keys to Creighton’s first win was keeping the Hoyas off the line as they shot just seven free throws in the game in Omaha. In the rematch, Georgetown was 18 of 22 from the line (81.8 percent), including 13 for the 17 in the second half. “Toward the end, they did haven’t anything to lose to they just put their heads down and tried to get fouled,” Blue Jay big man Groselle said. “They were scoring with the clock stopped, and that’s tough to win a game like that.”
Georgetown was led by 19 points from Smith-Rivera, while L.J. Peak had 11 and Derrickson 10 points. GU shot 41.7 percent and were 6-of-21 from deep while sinking 18-of-22 free throw tries
STAY IN ATTACK MODE HOYAS! FEED THE POST, IT’S YOUR FIRST LOOK, BOUNCE OR LOB PASS.
Ya’ll remember the pass from Reggie Cameron to teammate L. J. Peak for the dunk!?! #Peakshowdunk
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