Game 11: Georgetown Hoyas (8-2) vs. Creighton Bluejays (7-4)

When: Wednesday 6:30 p.m

Where: Capital One Arena

TV: CBS SportsNetwork (Tom McCarthy, Steve Lappas, Roy Hibbert)

Radio: Team 980, Sirius XM App (Rich Chvotkin, Season 51!)

series: Creighton leads 16-9. Hoyas are 5-6 at home.

Last meeting: Creighton won 94-72 at home in February.

stripes: Creighton has won its last six games by double digits.

KenPom rankings: Creighton 40, Georgetown 84

KenPom projection: Creighton wins 75-72 with a win probability of 61%.

DraftKings line: Hoyas +4.5, o/u 145, Georgetown ML +140

NOTES

Georgetown has lost 13 of its last 16 against Creighton. The Hoyas last defeated Creighton at home in 2020.

WHAT’S AT PLAY

Georgetown: The Hoyas have lost their last five opening games in the Big East. A win tonight would both end a long losing streak against Creighton and put the Hoyas above .500 for the first time since winning the 2019 season opener at Butler. That was 111 BE games ago in the regular season. Slow starts have not translated into success for Georgetown since realignment. Hoyas are 3-8 in openers since 2014 and only hit over .500 once in league play in 2015. A big test – in the truest sense of the word – for Thomas Sorber tonight against Ryan Kalkbrenner. The key for Sorber, as always, is to stay out of foul trouble. Creighton was up and down with a really tough schedule because Greg McDermott knew he had a good team and wanted to challenge them. Their win over No. 1 Kansas was obviously huge, but now they have to find a way to win without Texas Tech transfer Pop Isaacs. This will be the first game since Jayden Epps was named Big East Player of the Week. It’s nice to get some serious buzz in a conference opener against one of the teams expected to clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

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