Georgetown’s Otto Porter (22) shoots over Belmont’s Kerron Johnson during the second ... more >The margin hardly mattered, though. Georgetown was on to the round of 32, a foreign place to this group of Hoyas.
The win was to be savored, not for what it meant for Georgetown’s survival but also for what the players would not need to hear any longer.
“You know it. You watch basketball,” guard Markel Starks said. “For us, we’ve been let down in years past. It feels good to be moving on, but this can’t be the only sensation. We want to continue this.”
Indeed, there is a new, refreshing task facing the Hoyas. A businesslike approach could only do so much to mask the Hoyas’ relief.
Now, Clark and Sims and the rest of the roster wants another chance to shake hands, smile and move along, the possibility of the Hoyas’ deepest tournament run in five years now just 40 minutes away.
“This tournament is not about, ‘Oof, let’s get that money off your back,’” Thompson said. “Now we’re going to see if we can win another one Sunday.”
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