GAME THREAD: Georgetown Hoyas vs. St. Peter’s Peacocks

Game 10: Georgetown Hoyas (6-3) vs Saint Peter’s Peacocks (4-4)

When: Saturday 2:30 PM

Where: McDonough Arena

TV: ESPN+ (Jeremy Huber and Martin Bahar)

Radio: Team 980 AM (Rich Chvotkin), Sirius XM 389

Series: Hoyas lead 14-6 (9-2 at home). The last meeting was in 1980.

Net Rankings: Georgetown 124, Saint Peter’s 318

KenPom Rankings: Georgetown 96, Saint Peter’s 302

KenPom Odds: Georgetown has a 63% chance of winning, with a projected score of 79-62.

DraftKings Line: Georgetown -18.5, o/u 141.5

The Peacock Report 

Well, it looks like Saint Peter’s might be better than the 11^th best team in the MAAC but this is likely still going to end up as another 300ish cupcake.

Brent Bland is having a breakout season averaging 15.8 points per game. That’s 10 points above his career average. Bland also shots just a tick under 40 percent from 3-point range so that might be something to watch out for today.

The Peacocks are a top 5 free-throw shooting team in the country at 81.1 percent.

WHAT’S AT STAKE

Not much today, really. I think Dan Hurley had a nice quote about games like this that made its way onto social media yesterday.

It looks like Georgetown is set to complete the non-conference portion of the schedule at 8-3 assuming the Hoyas can take care of business on campus against Saint Peter’s and then Coppin State on Dec. 22 (also at McDonough). 

Metrics-wise it would be nice for two blowouts but we really need to look ahead and turn our attention to league play. I said we, not the players of course.

If, and it’s a big if, the Hoyas can find a way to start 2-0 with a win at Marquette and then at home against Xavier, that New Year’s Eve game with St. John’s could be a massive game to end 2025.