{"id":426944,"date":"2024-12-02T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426944"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Off-to-hot-start-Georgetown-out-to-limit-UMBC-s-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Off-to-hot-start-Georgetown-out-to-limit-UMBC-s-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to hot start, Georgetown out to limit UMBC&#8217;s shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into his second season at Georgetown, coach Ed Cooley looked at his young roster and came up with a plan for building them up before Big East Conference play. So far, it&#8217;s working. Georgetown (6-1) is off to its best start since the 2018-19 season and will complete its season-opening, eight-game homestand against UMBC on Monday in Washington. The Hoyas have won four straight since their lone setback to visiting Notre Dame on Nov. 16. &#8220;When you&#8217;re playing the schedule the way we&#8217;re playing, we&#8217;re trying to get continuity, chemistry,&#8221; Cooley said Saturday after a 100-68 win over Albany. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to happen overnight. The competition is about to pick up.&#8221; Despite Georgetown&#8217;s youth &#8212; there are a combined 15 freshmen and sophomores on the roster &#8212; it&#8217;s fifth-year graduate student Micah Peavy leading the way for a program hoping to return to college basketball prominence. Peavy, a TCU transfer, arrived at Georgetown with the reputation as a top-level defender but has expanded his offensive game. He leads the Hoyas in scoring (15.9 points per game) and 3-point shooting (45.2 percentage). Peavy scored a game-high 24 points in the win over Albany, while Thomas Sorber notched his third double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds. Sorber is averaging 14.7 points and a team-best nine rebounds. UMBC (5-4) completed a seven-game homestand with consecutive wins over Howard and Morgan State. The Retrievers&#8217; path to success through nine games seems clear &#8212; it&#8217;s the offense. In its five wins, UMBC is averaging 98.8 points, but that number drops to 63.5 points in its four losses. &#8220;Offensively, 21 assists on 29 makes is how we dream of playing basketball here,&#8221; coach Jim Ferry said after defeating Morgan State 92-69 on Wednesday. &#8220;That&#8217;s two games in a row now that we&#8217;ve been able to play our style, and hopefully we continue to build on that.&#8221; Bryce Johnson leads the Retrievers in scoring at 15.9 points per game and shoots 41.5 percent on 3-point attempts. UMBC is in the top 20 nationally in 3-point shooting, hitting 40.4 percent. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/038da014802684449b9547942e8d4bd6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nov 9, 2024; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Georgetown Hoyas head coach Ed Cooley celebrates during the first half against the Fairfield Stags at Capital One Arena. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into his second season at Georgetown, coach Ed Cooley looked at his young roster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}