Georgetown Hoyas

The Georgetown University women's basketball team will host the Central Michigan University Chippewas (1-0) Saturday afternoon at McDonough Arena in the squad's home opener. The Hoyas are currently 2-0 on the season after a pair of victories on the road this past week. Central Michigan will face Howard University on Friday before concluding its trip out East with GU on Saturday at 3 p.m.

The Georgetown University cross country team received two honors from the U.S. Track & Field / Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Thursday when it was announced that in just his second year as Director of Track & Field / Cross Country, Patrick Henner was named the Cross Country Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. Junior Andrew Bumbalough (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood Academy) was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year after a stellar season that saw him win the individual titles at the Mid-Atlantic Cross Country Regional Championships and the BIG EAST Conference Championship; Bumbalough led the Hoyas to both team titles as well.

After one day at the Patriot Invitational in Fairfax, Va., the Georgetown women's swimming & diving team sits in fifth place, while the men's swimming & diving team rests in sixth place. On the day, four men's swimmers set PR's and cracked top-10 lists at Georgetown in their individual events.

The 22nd-ranked Georgetown University men's basketball team takes the court at Verizon Center for its second game of the season on Saturday, Nov. 22, a non-league contest against Drexel. The Hoyas and Dragons will tip off at 1 p.m. The game can be heard on AM 570, with Rich Chvotkin providing all of the action.

The Georgetown University swimming & diving teams will be one of eight schools competing at the Jim McKay Natatorium this weekend as the 2008 Patriot Invitational takes place from Friday to Sunday. The event, hosted by George Mason University, begins today at 10 a.m. with the preliminaries, while the Friday finals are set to begin at 6 p.m. Saturday's competition will follow the same schedule as Friday, while the Sunday preliminaries and finals will begin one hour earlier, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., respectively.

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And so begins another season of Georgetown basketball, with a closer-than-you'd-like win over a pesky Jacksonville Dolphins team. Let's run the numbers. TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Home Visitor . Georgetown Jacksonville . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 39 30 69

This ends my countdown of each of the Hoyas' players, in order of their importance to the team's success this year. For Part I, click here. For Part II, here. #3. DaJuan Summers. While I’m sure there is some argument around the placement of prior players in this list, Summers at #3 is probably the one most people will have a disagreement with. After all, this is Summers’ “time”: Green

Excuse this interruption of SFHoya99's season preview, but I thought I'd chime back in to introduce another stats feature that I've been working on behind the scenes. If you're looking for the Jacksonville preview, you'll need to scroll down quite a bit. My regular reader may have noticed by now that I've been loathe to assign credit or blame on specific players during a single game, but rather