LINKS: Georgetown Needs to Handle Business with DePaul Tonight

Your Georgetown Hoyas will return to the court tonight, Friday, January 17th, when they host the DePaul Blue Demons at Capital One Arena. Tip-off is set for 8:00 PM, and the game will be televised on CBS Sports Network. The Hoyas enter Friday’s matchup with a 12-5 overall record and a 3-3 mark in conference play, following a 63-58 overtime loss to St. John’s on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. DePaul (9-9, 0-7 BE) suffered an 85-83 overtime loss to Marquette in their most recent game on Tuesday night in Chicago. They are playing much better basketball than prior years and might be due for a win.

Five Blue Demons scored in double figures, led by C.J. Gunn with 21 points. Isaiah Rivera contributed 20 points off the bench, while Jacob Meyer, Conor Enright, and N.J. Benson added 12, 11, and 10 points, respectively. Troy D’Amico grabbed 10 rebounds for DePaul, and Enright dished out 11 assists, achieving his first career double-double. DePaul shot a decent 51.6% (33-64) from the field, including 12 three-pointers.

Leading the Blue Demons in scoring is Jacob Meyer with an average of 13.9 points per game. C.J. Gunn follows closely with 11.2 points per game, and Isaiah Rivera rounds out the double-digit scorers with 10.6 points per game.

Hoyas fans can watch tonight’s game live on CBS Sports Network, with Dave Ryan providing play-by-play commentary alongside analysts Steve Lappas and Roy Hibbert (hell yeah!). Listeners can tune into the game on Team 980 or the SiriusXM app (ch. 384), with Rich Chvotkin calling the action in his 51st season.

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On Tuesday, the Hoyas fell short against the St. John’s Red Storm 63-58 at Madison Square Garden. Micah Peavy led a trio of Hoyas in double figures with 21 points. Malik Mack and Curtis Williams Jr. rounded out those in double figures with 13 and 11, respectively. Drew Fielder led the team on the glass with 12 rebounds followed by Thomas Sorber with 10 boards.

Sorber leads a quartet of Hoyas averaging double figures posting 14.2 ppg, a mark that ranks 15th in the BIG EAST. Peavy chips in 13.8 ppg, followed by Mack (13.6 ppg) and Jayden Epps (13.2 ppg). Georgetown and Marquette are the only two institutions with four players ranking among the top 30 in scoring in conference play.

Sorber leads the squad on the glass grabbing 8.6 rpg, which leads the league, followed by Fielder (5.9 rpg) and Peavy (5.1 rpg).

Mack paces the offense dishing out 4.7 apg with Peavy behind him at 3.7 apg.

Peavy is tied for 20th in the country and ranks second in the BIG EAST in steals per game, picking 2.35 pockets per game.

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Georgetown (12-5, 3-3 BIG EAST) enters the game following three-straight BIG EAST losses to Marquette, UConn and St. John’s. Before that the Hoyas had opened conference play 3-0 against Creighton, Seton Hall and Xavier. Freshmen Thomas Sorber is Georgetown’s leading scorer with 14.2 points and 8.6 rebounds per game.

Ed Cooley is in his second season leading the program, already surpassing last year’s win total. As a team, the Hoyas rely on their defense. The team leads the BIG EAST and ranks 24th nationally, holding opponents to 63.9 points per game and 38.2 percent shooting.

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DePaul and Georgetown are an even 5-5 against one another since March of 2019, but not for long. Both will face off in a Big East battle at 8:00 p.m. ET on Friday at Capital One Arena. The Blue Demons are no doubt hoping to put an end to a 16-game streak of away losses dating back to last season…

Even though they lost, DePaul was working as a unit and finished the game with 22 assists. The team’s really been improving in that area: they’ve now improved their assist total in three consecutive matches…

Rebounding is likely to be a big factor in this contest: DePaul has crashing the boards this season, having averaged 37.2 rebounds per game. However, it’s not like Georgetown struggles in that department as they’ve been averaging 37.9. With both teams battling to corral missed shots, we’ll see if one team can grab an edge.

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The Hoyas have gone 10-2 at home. Georgetown averages 73.1 points and has outscored opponents by 9.2 points per game.

The Blue Demons are 0-7 in Big East play. DePaul is fourth in the Big East with 24.8 defensive rebounds per game led by David Skogman averaging 4.1.

Georgetown is shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 45.0% DePaul allows to opponents. DePaul has shot at a 45.0% clip from the field this season, 6.8 percentage points above the 38.2% shooting opponents of Georgetown have averaged.

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Micah Peavy (21 points) and Malik Mack (13) picked up the slack for Epps offensively but also combined for nine of the Hoyas’ 19 turnovers. Georgetown leads the conference with 13.8 turnovers per game.

“Our Achilles’ heel has been turning the ball over in critical situations,” Georgetown coach Ed Cooley said on Wednesday. “The turnover conundrum is something we have to address.”

DePaul (9-9, 0-7) dropped its fifth straight game on Tuesday, losing 85-83 in overtime to Marquette.

Conor Enright, who leads the conference with 6.9 assists per game, recorded his first career double-double with 11 points and 11 assists in the loss. On the receiving end of many of those assists was CJ Gunn (11.2 ppg), who scored 21 for the second time in three games.

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Georgetown grabs 34.6 rebounds per game (86th in college basketball) while allowing 29.6 per contest to its opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 5.0 boards per game.

The Hoyas knock down 6.6 three-pointers per game (296th in college basketball), while their opponents have made 7.4 on average.

Georgetown averages 93.6 points per 100 possessions on offense (233rd in college basketball), and gives up 81.9 points per 100 possessions (16th in college basketball).

In home games, the Hoyas are posting 12.9 more points per game (76.9) than they are in away games (64.0).

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Georgetown finds themselves in the middle of the conference standings this year after a miserable first season under head coach Ed Cooley, with the Hoyas finishing just 2-18 in league play in 2024-25–with the kicker, of course, both wins coming against DePaul.

Despite the woes of last season, Georgetown is playing drastically better basketball and has hopes for postseason play. With a KenPom ranking of 62, they are on the precipice of that tournament bubble.

As with any Cooley-lead team, the Hoyas get it done with defense.

The Hoyas lead the conference in scoring defense, allowing only 63.9 points a game. On the flip side, DePaul comes in last, allowing 74.1 points per game.

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Despite DePaul (9-9, 0-7 BIG EAST) opening the game with stellar 4-of-6 shooting, Marquette (15-2, 6-0 BIG EAST) worked out to an 11-point, 21-10, advantage. The Blue Demons came right back with an 8-0 run that included five points from Gunn. Marquette knocked down a three-pointer, however, DePaul’s scoring effort didn’t waiver with the run stretching to 13-3 and cutting it to a one-point, 24-23, game. After lots of back-and-forth action, Gunn tied the game for the first time on a three-pointer which was followed up by a pair of free throws from Layden Blocker, giving DePaul a 30-29 lead. That lead grew to six following a Jacob Meyer three-pointer and floater by Gunn. Marquette cut the deficit to just one entering halftime.

The second period opened with the team’s immediately trading baskets, before a block and dunk by NJ Benson followed by a three-minute scoreless stretch from Marquette gave DePaul a 44-41 advantage. The game was quickly tied once again, before both teams had periods of scoreless droughts. DePaul put together seven unanswered points for a 53-48 lead, before the Golden Eagles would respond, this time on a three-pointer by David Joplin. The final three minutes of the half featured four lead changes with Conor Enright eventually sending the game to overtime on a layup with three seconds remaining.

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For example, while on that seven game winning streak to start the season, DePaul was playing like the #48 team in the country according to BartTorvik.com’s data filtering. They did this largely because of a top 50 offense, and that was largely because the Blue Demons were shooting over 41% from behind the three-point line and limiting their overmatched-on-paper opponents to just 27.6% three-point shooting.

Since then, DePaul has played like the #207 team in the country, ranking somewhere below #180 in both offensive and defensive efficiency. Part of the reason why is — you guessed it — the three-point shooting thing has completely flipped over on the Blue Demons. They’re connecting on just 34.3% of their own long range tries over the past 10 games, and their opponents are hitting — get this — over 43% of their attempts.

In only their six Big East games, DePaul is shooting 31.6% from distance, and opponents are connecting 45.5% of the time.