The GW men’s basketball team is out of the NCAA Tournament after Duke’s 74-61 win in the second round of the Tournament Saturday afternoon in Greensboro, N.C.
The No. 1-seeded Blue Devils maintained a two-digit lead over the Colonials for most of the game in what was one of GW’s worst shooting games of the year. Duke’s All-American J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams helped fuel their squad’s offensive performance in the Greensboro Coliseum with a combined 37 points.
Duke will go on to play in their ninth consecutive Sweet 16 next week against the winner of Saturday evening’s Texas A&M vs. Louisiana State University game.
Senior forward Omar Williams led the No. 8-seeded Colonials in scoring with 14 points. Senior forward Mike Hall contributed 13, while sophomore guard Maureece Rice had 12.
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Great rebounding by GW, but the shooting was just awful.
GW couldn’t finish when they had their opportunities. Too many turnovers.
The best teams will capitalize on your mistakes every time.
Even if GW had not missed some easy opportunities it would not have changed the outcome; just made the score closer. Some have said this game was “eerily similar to the NC Sate game”. I didn’t see the NC State game. But to “Run with the Big Boys” you can’t play like they did today–you have to play like you BELIEVE you can knock them off!!
the refs sucked. no seriously.
It was a great season. Hail to the buff and blue! It makes me proud to be a Colonial.
VOTE FOR LAMAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can’t blame that kind of performance on the referees. Maybe GW choked I don’t know.
Playing a weak A-10 schedule and out-of-conference schedule consisting of “school children” will produce an inflated record and generate alot of delusional thinking by Colonial fans. Hopefully the program can benefit from all of the attention and now move on with the aid of JUCO transfers and other recruits.
In the meantime, I see both Georgetown (with a big budget and from a “Major” conference) and George Mason (from the Mid-Major CAA) have moved on to the sweet sixteen. GW was expected to win their first game but they didn’t make it easy on themselves doing it. As for Duke, I don’t believe GW really took it to them as well as they could have.
To “George Washington’s Ghost”
I think they had a great year also. When you consider where this all started you have to say these last three years represent the “second resurrection” of Colonial basketball. Let’s keep it going by building on the foundation built by Hobbs, Perno and Kvancz.
Your precious “Colonials” could never beat the Yale Bulldogs.