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GIF Alert! Roy Hibbert Crushes Carmelo Anthony's Soul

Casual Hoya — via a.espncdn.com "I'm a rim protector. I'm a Georgetown Hoya. You know the lineage." Roy Hibbert is America.

May 19, 2013

Recruiting Update: Georgetown Offers 2014 Forward Zylan Cheatham

Casual Hoya — Just after I had put Casual, Jr. to bed and was settling in to watch the latest episode of Real Housewives of Orange County with a tub of ice-cream, news broke on twitter that Georgetown had offered a scholarship to Zylan Cheatham, a 6'8" small forward from Phoenix, Arizona. Georgetown is the latest to extend an offer to 2014 Cali Supreme (CA) forward Zylan Cheatham, he says — Garrett Tucker (@GTuckerF150) May 14, 2013 Cheatham is currently 78th in ESPN's Top 100 prospects for the Class of 2014 and has a host of offers already, but all from West Coast programs. Cheatham has been in ...

May 14, 2013

Point Guard Tre Campbell Commits to Georgetown

Casual Hoya — Georgetown fans had their off-season boredom alleviated late Wednesday night when point guard Tre Campbell committed to Georgetown via Twitter. Campbell is a product of the District, attending St. John's College High School, which previously produced another Georgetown point guard, Chris Wright, he of the heart of a champion. Campbell joins Isaac Copeland in Georgetown's 2014 recruiting class. According to scouting reports, Campbell is known as a speedster who plays with plenty of energy. He's a natural scorer but a willing distributor. At 6'2", 170 lb., Campbell has a similar build to...

May 8, 2013

Former Memphis Center Tarik Black to Visit Georgetown

Casual Hoya — According to ESPN's Andy Katz, former Memphis center Tarik Black will visit Georgetown this week. Black, a 6'9" 250 pound center, announced that he was transferring from Memphis last month. Since he is on track to graduate this spring, Black is eligible to play his senior season immediately wherever he winds up. Wherever he winds up remains a hotly contested question, as Georgetown is in the mix with Duke, Kansas and Oregon for his services. The Hoyas, who heading into this offseason were one over the available scholarship limit for 2013, suddenly find themselves with a scholarship ...

May 8, 2013

The 4th Annual Casual Kentucky Derby Preview

Casual Hoya — Welcome to the 4th Annual Casual Kentucky Derby Preview! Today represents one of the more Casual Fridays of the year as I get to drop knowledge in the form of thousands of words on the Kentucky Derby, the crown jewel of the Triple Crown season and the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Though moderately casual fans enjoy Derby Day for the mint juleps and women wearing sundresses and fancy hats, real casual fans anticipate the arrival of the first Saturday in May as an opportunity to make some coin. Don't believe me? Here are the Derby payouts from the years 2000-2012 courtesy of And Do...

May 3, 2013

Rock Chalk Roadtrip! Hoyas and Kansas Set for December 21, 2013

Casual Hoya — As we first learned back in October, Georgetown will commence a new series next season against one of the traditional powerhouses in college basketball, the Kansas Jayhawks. Today, we learned that the Hoyas will travel to Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, December 21st. Hoyas making the trip to Phog Allen Fieldhouse right before Christmas. Georgetown vs. Kansas set for December 21. #Pumped — Eddie Bradley III (@EBIII) May 2, 2013 The series between the two storied programs will head to the Verizon Center in 2014, Allen in 2015, and conclude at Verizon in 2016. From the Kansas Athletics s...

May 2, 2013

Georgetown Reveals First Glimpse of New Intercollegiate Athletics Center

Casual Hoya — Georgetown gave us our first look at what the new Intercollegiate Athletics Center will look like yesterday in this majestic three minute and 10 second animated video of hope and dreams. From 'The Campaign for Georgetown' site: The four-story, 130,000-square-foot building will be the first new athletics facility on campus in more than 60 years. It will be constructed adjacent to McDonough Gymnasium and include: - Practice courts, locker rooms, team meeting rooms, lounge areas and coaches' offices for men's and women's basketball - Locker rooms for four additional varsity sports - We...

May 2, 2013

Georgetown Assistant Mike Brennan Hired As American University's Head Coach

Casual Hoya — According to multiple reports, Georgetown assistant Mike Brennan has been hired as the head coach at American University. The second departure from the Hilltop in a day, Brennan's hire ends his four-year tenure as one of JTIII's assistants, and raises a number of questions about staffing going forward. Brennan heads back up Wisconsin Avenue to American, where he was before arriving on the Hilltop in a 2009 coaching swap that saw onetime Georgetown assistant Robert Burke end up at American. He had been an assistant for two years at American; before that Brennan had been an assistant for...

April 30, 2013

Report: Brandon Bolden To Transfer from Georgetown

Casual Hoya — Freshman big man Brandon Bolden is transferring from Georgetown, according to CBS's Jeff Goodman. In October 2010, Bolden committed to Georgetown after midnight madness after little fanfare surrounding his recruitment. The next two years were equally mysterious. While scouting reports said that Bolden had plenty of raw athletic promise but little polish, the passage of time revealed even less on-court production. Box scores, highlight reels, and even full games are available for seemingly every high school player with a chance of playing in a major program. Yet, Bolden seemed to rarely...

April 30, 2013

Broadus: "Greg Whittington Will Be Back Next Season"

Casual Hoya — Per assistant coach Kevin Broadus at last night's team banquet, Georgetown forward Greg Whittington WILL be back for the Hoyas next season. According to Broadus Greg Whittington will be back next year and will be great for the team. — Stonewalls (@GUStonewalls) April 26, 2013 Though this news was widely expected, it does put to bed any rumors that Whittington would not be eligible to play for Georgetown due to the academic woes that compromised his eligibility last season. With Whittington back in the fold, the projected starting 5 is as follows: C: Josh Smith (assuming of course,...

April 26, 2013

Recruiting Update: Georgetown Looking to Put the "Big" Back in Big Man U

Casual Hoya — The summer live period of recruiting continues this week and the Hoyas coaching staff has targeted a few centers to bring the "Big" back to Big Man U. Last week the staff was front and center for top ranked 2015 center Diamond Stone and today the staff will watch 2014 center Elbert Robinson and 2015 7'0" center Cheikh N'diaye. Georgetown's John Thompson III & Kenya Hunter will be at BIG SHOTS DC CERTIFIED tracking Elbert Robinson — Kevin Schneider (@BigShotsReport) April 24, 2013 Robinson, a 3-star center ranked 12th at his position in the 2014 class, hadn't attracted much inter...

April 24, 2013

Is Diamond Stone The Next Big Thing?

Casual Hoya — The live period for summer recruiting was in full swing over the weekend, and the Georgetown staff led by head coach John Thompson III was front and center for Diamond Stone, a 6'10" center in the Class of 2015. Georgetown, Duke & Wisconsin have tracked 2015 C Diamond Stone the hardest. JTIII the only head guy today. #se2k13 @ny2lasports @evan_flood — Scott Phillips (@sphillipshoops) April 21, 2013 Stone, from Dominican High School in Wisconsin, is already a 5-star recruit and ranked number one at his position in his class. Even though Georgetown, Duke and Wisconsin paid Stone th...

April 22, 2013

A Tradition Unlike Any Other: The Masters Live Blog on Casual Hoya

Casual Hoya — Hello, friends. Welcome to Casual Hoya's 4th annual live-blogging of The Masters! FOUR YEARS! Wow, time flies! Whatever!Today, we'll be guiding you through the first round at Augusta National, where Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have already kicked off this 77th edition of the Masters with their ceremonial tee shots and Tiger Woods tees off at 10:45 am eastern in pursuit of his 5th Green Jacket. Arnie. via postmediawindsorstar.files.wordpress.com Some betting action to keep you motivated: According to Bovada, Woods is currently a 7/2 favorite to win his fifth green...

April 11, 2013

Otto Porter NBA Draft Tracker

Casual Hoya — Now that the season has ended, Hoyas fans will undoubtedly spend the next few days and weeks scouring the twitters for news surrounding sophomore superstar Otto Porter's decision to enter the 2013 NBA Draft. Relevant dates to keep in mind from Draft Express: April 10: NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee Application DeadlineApril 15: NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee Response DeadlineApril 16: NCAA Early Entry "Withdrawal" DeadlineApril 28: NBA Draft Early Entry Eligibility Deadline (11:59 pm ET)May 2: NBA Draft Early Entry Candidates Released - Underclassmen Contact PermittedMay 15...

April 9, 2013