Jonathan Wallace has started every game of his four-year career at Georgetown, a stretch in which he’s become the Hoyas all-time leader in 3-point shots, eclipsing Kevin Braswell’s mark of 189 two weeksago against Fordham.
Not once in Wallace’s 115 games prior to Connecticut last weekend did the senior guard ever miss as many 3-point attempts as he did against the Huskies, missing six of seven from behind the arc. But on one of Wallace’s worst shooting nights — he once went 0-for-5 as a freshman — the rest of the Hoyas showed they can pick up the slack from behind the arc.
“Sometimes it’s going to look ugly, sometimes you’re going to get open shots but it’s not going to go,” said senior center Roy Hibbert, who knocked down just the second 3-point attempt of his career with 4.2 seconds remaining to clinch the Hoyas’ 72-69 win over the Huskies. “We have to rely on each other and just keep playing through it.”
Georgetown broke a tie or took the lead with 3-pointers on three different occasions in the first half against Connecticut, twice by Patrick Ewing Jr. and once by DaJuan Summers.
In their lone loss, at Memphis on Dec. 22, the Hoyas were 0-for-6 in the second half from 3-point range. Against the Huskies, Georgetown came back from six points down to finish the game hitting 4 of 5 threes in the final six minutes, including two from Austin Freeman, which led Hoyas head coach John Thompson III to remark that he should no longer be considered a freshman.
“It was an identical situation to Memphis,” said Thompson. “All of a sudden against Memphis we ended up down by 12, this group [against Connecticut] kind of settled in and responded. I think they realized that we were getting the shots we wanted, they just weren’t going in and then we just had to get a few stops.”
