Cooley Gets His Win, Georgetown Blows Out PC

Cooley Gets His Win, Georgetown Blows Out PC

The streak is over. Former Providence College and now Georgetown Coach Ed Cooley got his first win over the Friars on Wednesday night.

PC men's basketball team was blown out by the Georgetown Hoyas (16-10, 7-8 Big East), 93-72, at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., before a crowd of just 5,326. For basketball, the arena holds 20,356.

The Friars fell to 12-15 overall and 6-10 in the conference.

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Cooley is now 1-4 against the Friars as the coach of the Hoyas.

Senior Bensley Joseph led the Friars with a team-high 24 points, six rebounds, and four assists effort. Redshirt sophomore Justyn Fernandez added 11 points. 

 

FIRST HALF: 

• Joseph opened the scoring with a driving layup.  

• Joseph then scored 12 straight points, including three straight threes, that helped the Friars take a 16-13 lead at the under-12 media timeout (11:03).  

• Oswin Erhunmwunse slammed a lob from Joseph that snapped a 10-0 Georgetown scoring run (6:40).  

• Fernandez knocked down a three that beat the shot clock to cut the Hoya lead to 29-28 (5:14).  

• Fernandez ended a 7-0 Georgetown scoring run with a three to bring the score to 30-31 (2:28).  

• Georgetown ended the half with a 19-3 run on offense to take a 48-31 lead at halftime. 

• Jospeh was the only Friar to score in double figures in the first half (14).  

• Micha Peavy scored 19 points in the first half for Georgetown  

 

SECOND HALF: 

• Fernandez started the Friars' second-half scoring with an and-one.  

• Georgetown then went on a 9-0 run that extended their lead to 34-59 (16:11).  

• Ryan Mela made a driving layup to cut the Georgetown lead to 18 at 41-59 (13:54).  

• The Friars had a positive 8-4 scoring stretch following the under-16 media timeout. Georgetown led 63-43 at the under-12 media timeout (11:33).  

•  Wesley Cardet Jr (Tallahassee, Fla.) scored four straight points for the Friars to cut the Hoya lead to 73-57 (6:18).  

• Jayden Pierre hit back-to-back threes for the Friars. Georgetown led 81-67 (3:12).  

• The Hoyas continued to edge out the Friars for much of the half, holding a 19-point lead as time expired at 93-72.  

 

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Three players finished in double figures for the Friars: Joseph (24), Fernandez (11) and Pierre (10).  

• Georgetown's Micha Peavy finished with a game-high 30 points.  

• Providence and Georgetown each recorded 36 rebounds.  

 

NOTES: 

• PC has now registered a 38-48 mark all-time versus Georgetown, including a 12-26 record on the road. 

• PC has posted a 1-3 mark this season against former coaches (0-2 vs. Pitino, 1-1 vs. Cooley). 

 

NEXT: 

• The Friars will head to Milwaukee, Wis. to play the Marquette Golden Eagles (20-6, 11-4 BIG EAST) on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Fiserv Forum. 

• Tip-off is slated for 7:00 p.m. ET on FS1.