Jan. 18, 2005
GW Mens Basketball Starts Strong
The GW mens basketball team is off to its best
start since the 199293 season. The Colonials opened the year at
102, moved up three spots to No. 21 in the Associated Press mens
basketball poll for the week of Jan. 9, and have been ranked for six consecutive
weeks the second-longest streak in school history.
GW upset the University of Maryland (then ranked 12th by the AP) 10192
to win the BB&T Classic Championship Dec. 5. The team earned its spot
in the championship round against the Terps with a 9683 win over
then No. 11 Michigan State.
The Colonials opened the season with a 9776 loss to second-ranked
Wake Forest in the Preseason National Invitation Tournament (NIT) first-round
game, Nov. 15, but followed that NIT loss with an eight-game winning streak.
Prior to the start of the season, GW and Saint Josephs were tabbed
as the teams to beat in the Atlantic 10 mens basketball race, according
to a poll of conference coaches.
GW received 48 of the 54 votes to win the Atlantic 10 West division. The
confidence was based on the return of five starters and 13 players from
last years 1812 team, which finished second in the West division,
advanced to the A-10 semifinals, and earned an NIT berth.
In that same poll, the coaches and media named T.J. Thompson to the preseason
All-Conference First Team. Mike Hall and Pops Mensah-Bonsu were second
team selections and Carl Elliott was chosen for the All-Defensive team.
GW returns to campus for A-10 conference match-ups against Xavier Jan.
25, at 7 pm, and Dayton Jan. 30, at 2 pm.
GW Basketball Takes Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of DC Out to the Movies
The GW basketball team, led by head coach Karl Hobbs, and including Loews
Theatres, and Paramount Pictures, hosted the Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of Washington, DC, for a private advance screening of the new Samuel L.
Jackson film, Coach Carter, at the Loews Cineplex in Georgetown,
Jan. 7.
Im excited to take part in this opportunity to join the Big
Brothers and Big Sisters organization in viewing a very entertaining and
educational film, Hobbs said.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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