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 {{men_s_basketball:teams_georgetown.gif|}} **(8) Georgetown 80 {{men_s_basketball:teams_marquette.gif|}} (5) Marquette 57**
-===== Recap  =====
+===== Georgetown Ousts Marquette From Big East Tourney   =====
+{{  men_s_basketball:03_12_10_hayward.jpg}}New York — Heading into their Big East tournament game with the Georgetown Hoyas, the Marquette Golden Eagles had gone 32 games without being defeated by double digits.
+That streak came to a sudden and screeching halt Friday night.
+Unable to contain big man Greg Monroe throughout and unable to even find the basket for much of the second half, the Golden Eagles wound up being pummeled by the Hoyas, 80-57, in the teams' semifinal matchup at Madison Square Garden.
+Monroe put up 23 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists as eighth-seeded Georgetown led throughout in avenging its Jan. 6 loss to MU at the Bradley Center. The No. 22 Hoyas (23-9) shot 52.6% for the game and 60.0% over the final 20 minutes to advance to the championship game for the third time in coach John Thompson III's six years and 13th time overall.
+Chris Wright and Jason Clark added 15 points each, and Georgetown bashed MU on the boards, 44-24.
+Fifth-seeded MU (22-11) shot 37.0% for the game and just 30.8% in the second half as it lost in the semifinals for the second time in three years. [[Jimmy Butler]] had 17 points to lead the Golden Eagles, while [[Maurice Acker]] scored 16 and Lazar Hayward 15.
+"They absolutely annihilated us," said coach [[Buzz Williams]]. "Annihilated us inside. We were as bad as we've been all year long defensively. Didn't play with very much energy at all."
+The game was in danger of slipping away from MU as early as the opening minutes of the second half.
+Trailing by three at intermission, the Golden Eagles watched the Hoyas open on an 11-2 run, with Clark scoring eight on a pair of three-pointers and a layup. His second three, with 15 minutes 51 seconds left, gave Georgetown its biggest lead to that point at 48-37.
+MU responded with a 10-0 run, with an Acker three and a three-point play by Hayward getting the Golden Eagles to within 48-47 at the 13:34 mark.
+That was as close as they'd get, however. Starting with a beautiful spinning layup by Wright and capped by a three-point play by Austin Freeman, the Hoyas put together a game-clinching 22-5 spurt that spanned nearly a full 8 minutes and put Georgetown's full arsenal on display.
+Drives, put-backs, dunks and threes - the Hoyas showed it all in putting the Golden Eagles away. Wright had eight points and Monroe five as Georgetown hit 8 of 11 shots to open its lead to 70-52 with 5:32 remaining.
+As helpless as MU was defensively, it was even worse on offense. Completely out of character, launching low-percentage shots and abandoning the great ball movement that helped get them into the semifinals, the Golden Eagles went without a field goal for a span of 7:30 as Monroe controlled the paint.
+Underscoring MU's difficulties, the baskets starting and ending that streak came from Acker, the team's fourth-leading scorer. Hayward, who fouled out with 3:47 left, scored just three points in the second half, and [[Darius Johnson-Odom]] - who had a career-high 24 in the quarterfinals - was invisible in the half, not even scoring.
+He finished the game with four points on 1-for-8 shooting
+"We were on fire in the last 10 minutes of the game - we scored six points," Williams said dryly. "Very few of our shots tonight were assisted shots; we had nine assists on 20 baskets. Didn't think that we created for others very well.
+"Over the last 10 minutes tonight we were awful, and they were super defensively."
+Hayward said he believed much of the outcome could be traced to effort, or, more specifically, the Golden Eagles' lack of it for a full 40 minutes - an eye-opening statement for a team less than a week away from the NCAA tournament.
+"I wouldn't say we gave a full 40-minute effort; we just gave it in spurts," he said. "Georgetown's not 23 points better than us. But tonight they brought it to us, and we just collectively couldn't get it together and turn it around."
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