MU-G'town

[dwaderoy2004]

not meaning to look ahead of the rutgers game, but i guess i am anyway.  the G-town game is also the celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the program.  supposedly, there will be former players in attendance, a special halftime ceremony, and the unveiling of the all-century team.  needless to say, much like MU on D-wade day, G-town will be pretty pumped up for this game.  i look forward to ruining the celebration...

[Chili]

I am hoping to run into Ewing and Mutombo to ask them about their favorite gentlemans clubs - specifically the Gold Club in Atlanta. 

[IAmMarquette]

I'll be at the Verizon Center this Saturday, and I'll throughly enjoy watching MU rain on G'Town's parade!  (Knock on wood).

[79Warrior]

played them at Georgetown. They are having tons of former players at the game, huge celebration. Emotion will be very high. This game will be very, very tough to win.

[rocky_warrior]

OK, I wanted to stay out of this conversation until after the Rutgers game...but here's my two cents...

There was a thread I linked a week ago or so from the Hoya baords where they weren't impressed with Marquette this year.  Well, after looking at schedule's, I'm going to be the first to say I'm REALLY not impressed with Georgetown this year.

More than overall record, I think an opponents conference winning record is important to look at.  Sure Georgetown has a winning big east record, but of their opponents  in the 6-2 record, Notre Dame is the only one they've beat that has a winning record in the Big East.

Further, from their entire schedule,  they've only beaten 5 teams that are .500 or better in their conference: Vanderbilt, Fairfield, Oral Roberts, Michigan, and Notre Dame. 

So, how does MU stack up in a comparison like this.  We've beaten 13 opponents with at least .500 records in their conference (Idaho St, Tx Tech, Duke, Valpo, NW St, Del St, Oak, Morgan St, Sav St, WVU, UL, Pitt, Prov).  Now, I will grant you that Idaho St, Morgan St, and Sav St all have losing records overall, so maybe our total goes down to 10.

G'town has good big guys, but they simply don't have the guards to compete in the big east this year.  You could say their bigs are under performing as well - though I suspect it's from a lack of guards setting them up.  They've basically lost to any good team that came into their building, and they'll lose to Marquette as well.  It won't be a problem.  You read it here first

p.s. - They'll lose @UL tomorrow too...

[rocky_warrior]

Oh, and in another couple minutes you can remove Michigan from G'towns list... they'll be 4-5 in the B10.

[4everwarriors]

Just curious if #31 will be at the game and who he's pulling for?