Dec. 17, 2009
The ODU Monarchs (6-4) travel to Washington, DC to take on 11th ranked Georgetown (8-0) Saturday night at 7 p.m. in McDonough Arena. The will be televised live in Hampton Roads on MASN.
2009-10 MONARCH BASKETBALLOld Dominion University (6-4)Vs. #11 Georgetown (8-0)
ODU Radio: ESPN 94.1 FM(Ted Alexander, Kenny Gattison, Rick Kiefner)
TV- MASN In Hampton Roads(Dave Feldman and Mark Tillmon)
PROBABLE STARTERS FOR ODUF 35 Ben Finney, 6-5, Jr, Portsmouth, VA. 7.2 ppg/ 5.4 rpgF 33 Keyon Carter, 6-8, RS-Jr. Riviera Beach, Fl. 6.8 ppg/ 4.8 rpgC 12 Gerald Lee, 6-9, Sr., Uusikaupunki, Finland, 14.2 ppg/ 5.0 rpgG 24 Kent Bazemore, 6-5, RS-So. Kelford, NC. 7.4 ppg/ 3.5 rpgG 3 Darius James, 6-1, Jr, Virginia Beach,Va. 6.7 ppg/ 4.2 apg.
OFF THE BENCHG 23 Marsharee Neely, 6-2, Sr., Greensboro, NC. 8.1 ppg/ 3.3 rpgF 21 Frank Hassell, 6-8, RS-Jr., Chesapeake, Va. 6-0 ppg/ 4.2 rpgC 20 Chris Cooper,6-9, So, Dumfries, VA., 3.2 ppg/ 3.4 rpgG 22 Marquel Delancey, 6-0, So.., Alexandria, Va., 2.2 ppg/ 2.2. apgF 1 Nick Wright, 6-8, RS-Fr.., Suffolk, VA 1.9 ppg /1.5 rpgG 15 Trian Iliadis, 6-3, Fr.,Perth,W.Australia 3.5 ppg/ 1.5 rpgG 2 Josh Hicks, 6-2, Fr., Winston-Salem, NC./ ------/-----Red ShirtC 40 Anton Larsen, 7-0, Fr., Copenhagen, Denmark -----/----- Red Shirt
LAST GAMESenior Gerald Lee tallied a team-high 15 points and junior Keyon Carter pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds, but the Dayton Flyers broke open a close game late to pick up a 58-50 win over Old Dominion Friday evening in front of 13, 159 fans at UD Arena.
Dayton (7-2), which was the preseason pick to win the Atlantic 10 and started the year ranked in the Top 25, won its 24th consecutive home game. The streak is the fourth longest active streak in the country.Despite another solid road effort Old Dominion falls to 6-4 overall and 1-4 away from the Ted Constant Convocation Center. The 13,159 fans was the 15th largest crowd ODU has ever played in front of.
The Monarchs attempted 29 shots in the first half to only 20 for Dayton, but the Flyers led at the break in large part to their 50-percent shooting clip and the Monarch's 2-of-7 mark from the free throw line.
SERIES VS. GEORGETOWNSeries is 2-2. ODU has beaten the Hoyas twice in McDonough1976-77 ODU 80-58 ECAC Trn. (McDonough)1978-79 GT 73-52 ECAC Trn. (at Univ. of Richmond)2006-07 ODU 75-62 at McDonough2007-08 GT 66-48 at the Constant Center
ODU DEFENSEThe 38 points for Mount St. Mary's was the lowest total points scored for the Mountaineers since Feb. 10, 1950 when they tallied 37 points against Loyola.It's the second time this season that ODU has held an opponent to only 38 points as Bethune Cookman managed the same total in a 69-38 ODU victory on November 15.
ODU VS. NATIONALLY RANKED TEAMSSince 1976-77 ODU has played 36 nationally ranked teams. Below are theMonarch victories.2006-07 W at #8 Georgetown 75-621994-95 W vs. #9 Villanova, 89-81 (3 OT) NCAA 1st round1993-94 W vs. #22 Virginia76-69 at Norfolk Scope1985-86 W at #19 Richmond, 62-59 W at #20 Western Kentucky 62-59 W vs. Western Kentucky, 74-611984-85 W at #20 UAB, 59-581980-81 W at #1 DePaul, 63-621979-80 W vs. #3 Syracuse, 68-67 at Norfolk Scope