Georgetown Hoyas in familiar territory
By Hank Harris • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: NCAABThe Georgetown Hoyas are a traditional power in NCAA College Basketball – and they’re sure looking like one right now, at the right time.
Georgetown (23-10 SU, 17-12 ATS) is the No. 3 team in the Midwest region, a seeding which was aided by the team’s performance in the last weekend’s Big East championship game. The Hoyas came within seconds of beating the West Virginia Mountaineers, losing by two points.
Georgetown will be aiming for its second Final Four appearance in four years, after making it to the 2007 four-team finale.
Georgetown faces the 14th-seeded Ohio Bobcats (21-14 SU, 18-12 ATS), which won the MAC Tournament title, on Thursday (7:25 pm ET, CBS).
The Bobcats dumped top-seeded Kent State, fourth-seeded Miami-Ohio and third-seeded Akron to earn their first NCAA tourney berth since 2005. The Bobcats have not won a game in the NCAA Tournament since 1983.
NCAA Tournament Betting Odds at JustBet have the Hoyas listed as a 13.5-point favorite.
Georgetown lost the Big East conference tournament title game on Saturday by a score of 60-58 against West Virginia. The Hoyas cashed as 2.5-point underdogs and the score went under the total of 132.5.
Chris Wright had 20 points and also dished out seven assists for Georgetown in the loss.
Ohio beat the Akron Zips 81-75 to win the MAC title on Saturday, as a 1-point road underdog.
Ohio is coming into the Big Dance on a roll, going 5-0 straight up and against the point spread in its past five. The total has gone over in four of Ohio’s last five games.
Georgetown is 4-1 SU and 5-0 ATS in its last five games.
Hank Harris is a professional writer with more than 25 years experience. He has written on sports betting and gambling for more than a decade of that time. He covers all sports, from the NFL to the NBA to NCAA College.
He is originally from the Boston area and is now based out of Las Vegas.
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