There may not be much separation between first-place Georgetown and the rest of the Big East contenders. The Hoyas are the only team with just one conference loss, but eight have either two or three losses. Still, the sixth-ranked Hoyas (16-2, 6-1 Big East) are comfortably ahead of St. John’s (7-11, 1-6), which has struggled in conference play.
Georgetown has room to improve even after escaping Morgantown, W.Va. last weekend with a win, most glaringly the need to feed the post. Center Roy Hibbert’s 12 points and 10 rebounds against West Virginia came despite just six field goal attempts, his lowest total in 10 games.
“We have to throw it down to people other than Roy,” said Hoyas head coach John Thompson III prior to facing the Mountaineers. “That’s something we have to start to do, not necessarily just to score, but to get different kinds of looks. They’ll play them differently than they’ll play Roy.”
Hibbert, who is averaging 16.2 points and 8.5 rebounds in the last six games, recently was named to the Naismith Trophy’s midseason top-30 list.
The Red Storm always gets up for hosting Georgetown at Madison Square Garden. Last season they shot 50 percent from the field in the first half and actually led, 28-27, at halftime. But they were unable to stop an 11-0 Hoyas run after the break and were done in by a game-high 24points from Jeff Green.
No. 6 Georgetown at St. John’s
Where » Madison Square
Garden
When » Tonight, 7
TV » MASN
Radio » 980 AM
