UNI v Georgetown

[DWadle1983]

Clearly Nantz and Packer were prepared to hit Littlepage on the MVC and CAA, but how did Air Force and Utah State get bids, and did I see that right that Montana is a 12 seed? As was mentioned on another thread, what is the ACC's W-L with teams seeded 7 and below. That's the fair comparsion. What bothers me about G-town is they have both size and outside shooting.

[Hime_Peterson]

Pretty decent matchup for UNI. If they win the first game, having to play Ohio State in Dayton isn't exactly ideal, but the Panthers can definitely beat Georgetown, contrary to what Digger Phelps thinks.

[Bluejay4Panthers]

The NCAA had to put Ohio State in Dayton to fulfill the directive that teams be placed as close to home as possible. That's why Texas plays in Dallas, Duke in Greensboro, and UCLA in San Diego. The NCAA would've put SDSU in SD and Villanova in Philly, but those sites are at their home courts.

[PantherHawk]

We have not handled big men this year very well and Georgetown has a guy that is 7 ft 2 in. He is worthless in my mind, but we have to be able to hit our shots and play good deffense. I like our chances, i think Georgetown might be looking ahead to to Ohio State in the 2nd round.

[kabullseye]

We have not handled big men this year very well and Georgetown has a guy that is 7 ft 2 in. He is worthless in my mind, but we have to be able to hit our shots and play good deffense. I like our chances, i think Georgetown might be looking ahead to to Ohio State in the 2nd round.

I thought Bucknell had some pretty good sized dudes.

[panther2317]

Did anyone else notice that 3 of the Valley games are vs. Big East teams and the 4th vs. the Big 12? I guess it's put up or shut up time. I've never wanted 4 teams to win MORE than this Thursday and Friday.

[Purple Reign]

We have not handled big men this year very well and Georgetown has a guy that is 7 ft 2 in. He is worthless in my mind, but we have to be able to hit our shots and play good deffense. I like our chances, i think Georgetown might be looking ahead to to Ohio State in the 2nd round.

Plus, we will have all the Ohio fans behind us because they would rather play us than G'town- - - - - at least they THINK they would.

PR

[Panthers Win!!]

Just starting to look at Georgetown's stats some.

Georgetown's losses this year were to the following teams:

Vanderbilt (RPI 72, 17-12 record) by 7 points at Georgetown
at Illinois (RPI 14, 25-6 record) by 10 points at Illinois
at West Virginia (RPI 38, 20-10 record) by 7 points
at Connecticut (RPI 3, 27-3 record by 7 points
West Virginia (RPI 38, 20-10 record) 13 points at G-town
at Marquette (RPI 28, 20-10 record) by 6 points
at Villanova (RPI 2, 25-4 record) by 10 points

at South Florida (RPI 236, 7-22 record) by 7 points OUCH!!! [this matchup in particular may be something to study carefully as they also played South Florida at Georgetown to a one possession game in their previous game - South Florida finished the game shooting 57.5 percent (23-of-40), including 6-of-11 from outside the arc (54.5) percent; this was the first time South Florida had ever won a game in conference].

to Syracuse on neutral court (RPI 18, 23-11 record) by 1 point


If you think UNI had difficulties down the home stretch consider that Georgetown as well has lost five out of their last nine games.

In looking at a few of the Georgetown fan comments on their board it seems they believe their height advantage (their leading scorer, senior, Hibbert, is 7 foot 2 inches). Hibbert only scored 4 points in their loss to South Florida on 3/4 while South Florida's big guy, 6-10 center Jones had a field day going 9-10 and scoring 23 points. It seems that teams also have reasonable success against the Hoyas from behind the three point line. South Florida in it's win on 3/4 for example was 6-11 from behind the three point line.

[panther2317]

We don't have the size to match-up with Hibbert...but I don't think that matters. We've seen Patrick O'Bryant (similar size) so we're prepared to defend him.

[UNIAlum95]

Team Comparison

From Warren Nolan's website. Seems to be a pretty even match up from the raw numbers side...

Team Comparison 
                           Northern Iowa       Georgetown  
 
Conference             Missouri Valley      Big East  
 
RPI (Rank)              0.5990   (25)   «   0.5920   (37)  
SoS (Rank)             0.5644   (40)   «   0.5480   (63)  
vs. RPI Teams 1-50             8 - 7   «   5 - 7  
vs. RPI Teams 51-100          0 - 1   »   5 - 1  
vs. RPI Teams 101-200        8 - 1   »   4 - 0  
vs. RPI Teams 200+            5 - 0   «   7 - 1  
 
Overall Record                  21 - 9       21 - 9  
Home Record                    11 - 3   »   11 - 2  
Road Record                      7 - 5   «   7 - 6  
Neutral Record                   3 - 1       3 - 1  
 
Offense Points/Game            65.4   »   66.7  
Defense Points/Game           58.6   «   59.5  
Margin of Victory                 +6.8   »   +7.1  
 
Last 10                             4 - 6   »   5 - 5  
Current Streak                  1 Loss       1 Loss  
Home Streak                    1 Loss   »   2 Wins  
Road Streak                  3 Losses       3 Losses

[stpetersburghoya]

Hey everyone - congratulations on your excellent season. I saw the win over Iowa - that was a great game. I'd just like to give you all a little more information to fill in some of your analysis.

Roy Hibbert is a sophomore not a senior. He finished behind Pittsburg's Gray in the Big East most improved player voting. He also leads the team in scoring while being 6th man on the team in terms of minutes played. His best games have come against teams with smaller sized posts or with inexperienced posts. He is not yet 20 so there is still a learning curve for him, but he's gone from being 8th in scoring last year to leading the team in ppg this year. In addition, his scoring when adjusted for pace is on par with many of the better posts in the country who play in offenses that play a faster tempo than ours.

That being said our best player is definitely Jeff Green. Many on our board believe that he probably won't complete all 4 years at Georgetown due to his NBA potential. He is the first player in Georgetown history to lead the team in rebounds and assists. He shared Big East Rookie of the Year honors with Rudy Gay last year as well. He was sick and did not play most of the USF game.

Our offense is a very flexible version of the Princeton offense. We also run a high pick and roll and a high low game for about 45% of our offensive posessions.

Our defense is a match up zone.

I'm interested to hear more about UNI's offensive and defensive schemes and tendencies as most of your games are out of market in DC.
Best of luck. Travel safely and I look forward to meeting some of you in Dayton.

[Panthers to the Bone]

So does MSU get the record for the best RPI team to not get in?

They renewed their title as best RPI team to not get in. They were a 34 in 2000 and didn't get in. Now they were a 21 and didn't get in. Un-real.

[panther2317]

So...Syracuse is 19 and a 5 seed and MSU is 21 and NOT IN TOURNAMENT (NIT)??????? Here's my question...if the front of MSU's uniform said, "MIZZOU" instead of Missouri State...are they "IN ir OUT"???

[GonzoCat]

You know the answer to that P2317 - they would never leave out a BCS team with a 21 RPI in a million years. Have they ever left out a BCS with a top 40 RPI?

[Ozzie Guillen]

Everyones right when they say its put up or shut up time for the MVC. We need a team to somehow get to the Sweet 16 to earn some respect in the tournament. If all 4 teams go one and done it will be a long time before we see 4 MVC teams back in the Madness.