Hoyas shut out Young in second half After enduring a first half of resistance from IUPUI and frontman Alex Young, Georgetown pitched a shutout in the second half against the Jaguars’ leading scorer and cruised to an 81-58 victory in front of a light crowd of 6,854 at Verizon Center.
Hollis Thompson had a game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Hoyas (5-1), who got 14 points from Henry Sims, 13 from Markel Starks and gained votes in the Associated Press poll on Monday.
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Young scored the Jaguars’ first 10 points and led everyone with 16 at halftime but was 0-for-8 from the field and 0-for-4 at the line the rest of the way.
“I was glad to see our guys — we had a little hand in him not having as good of a second half,” Hoyas coach John Thompson III said. “I pointed out to them that he had 16 points at halftime. That pretty much was it. That was the only adjustment. There was no other adjustment we made in guarding him.”
The Hoyas led 32-31 at the break, but Nate Lubick (eight points, career-high 14 rebounds, five assists) finished a tough inside layup and threw down a two-handed slam from Hollis Thompson on a fast break during a 10-0 Georgetown run to start the second half.
“I struggled a little bit early on,” said Lubick, who had gone 0-for-6 from the field in the Hoyas’ previous game against Memphis. “But I just kept playing. In the second half, once we got things going, I started playing better, and we all started playing better.”
Lubick then fed Jason Clark (seven points) and Hollis Thompson on back-to-back buckets. Georgetown had 13 assists on 20 field goals in the second half to complement a season-low seven turnovers in the game.
Clark, coming off an all-tournament performance at the Maui Invitational, struggled but still scored his 1,003rd career point Monday.
“As a coach, I kept waiting for him to get out of it,” John Thompson said. “I thought about taking him out a little earlier than I did, but I wanted him to end on something positive. … We’ll give a ball sometime soon, forget about it and keep on playing.”
