I think Nelson is trying to throw game. He's a freshman but man, he has really BAD judgement.

Whew! Finally a win. Feels good.

JNJr sure looked like a frosh in the last 3 mins. But in a change of the season narrative no late fade tonight. Shooting was great, including three point shooting, so that was a big factor. And that bucket inside to Paar to seal the deal was both awsome and uncharacteristic of this team. Still will be a struggle to skip the play-in round of the A10 Tourney, but a nice win.

he sure is a lot of fun to watch!

The Dude wrote:

Nice Minutes from Mezie and Shawn in addition

That's an understatement.  With a short bench and foul trouble, Those two came in and scored ten points during a key stretch of the second half, played solid defense, added energy, and actually helped extend the lead.  With Ace, absolutely critical minutes off the bench that were a key to the victory--minutes that many of us wondered whether we had.  And to to top it off--Mezzie's pic was on tonight's ticket.   .     

With Toro and Harris our, and Battle and Paar in early foul trouble, I thought we were done. 

But Mezzie, Swawn Walker, and Ace all stepped up and gave us productive minutes.  I thought the play of those three was the story of the game and the difference between winning and losing. 

The difference in how hard and consistently we are playing between early in the year and now is remarkable.  The team has strung together hard fought, 40 minute efforts for a few games now.  They are undermanned, but they are really competing hard now.   If Maceo could rediscover his game and we can ever get healthy, then we will take yet another step forward.

I should have mentioned Paar too.  He didn’t come off the bench like Mezie, Walker, and Stallinfs, but with Toeo our, he had to play 29 minutes and he played very well.   Really great to see a freshman big develop.  He even put it on the floor and scored over his man once, which is the first time I remember seeing that.

Correct me if I'm wrong but was there a big poster of Michael Strahan being held up by a student assistant behind the bench while GW was on D?  Anyone know what the deal is with that?

It was a good win for the team. Again, this is about process not result at this point and if you are going to say that after losses you need to say that after wins too. This team is improving before our eyes. That is the most important thing right now because as it continues to improve the results will follow. Winning a rivalry game without 2 of your top 7-8 is huge. I agree with those who say Mezie, Shawn and Ace were the difference. As great as Armel played, we don't win unless we get those minutes off the bench form those guys.

On a separate note, this win was good news for a couple of our drive by posters lamenting things past. JC is now also undefeated as GW HC against George Mason.

My 4 keys to the GW win over George Mason:

1.    In the first half, Mason went up by 5 and looked like they were getting ready to open things up, when we got extremely hot from the 3.   Battle hit 3 in  a row, Jack made his one shot and I believe Walker hit one during that stretch.  For the half, we had an extremely high percentage of 3 point shots made (over 50%).    

2.    When Mason again looked like they were getting back in the game in the second half, we had about a 5 -7 minute stretch where we played as good as defense as we played all season, preventing them from catching us.

3     We were able to open things up to a double digit lead led by Potter, who likewise became hot in the 2nd half.

4.    Throughout the game, we got incredible contributions from the 3 bench players (Stallings, Mezie and Walker, who shot a combined 5-5 from the field, 1-1 from the 3 and 4-4 from the line.     In fact, the starters were only okay.  Battle did hit  5 of the 8 3 point shots he took and Potter was hot in the second half, but while his game was solid,  he was hardly spectacular  He wasn't particularly good at stopping Mason's penetration, he had 5 turnovers, numerous sloppy passes and missed more shots than he made.  Yes, his second half was incredible and he had 7 assists and  6 rebounds.  As for the other starters, Nelson shot 3-9, Jack was invisible and Paar was decent with his 7 points and 9 rebounds, but is slow of foot, not a good defender and has hard hands (I know he is a freshman and will grow out of most of this).,   We really were bailed out by the bench.   I still don't understand why Mezie never gets into the game unless 4 other players are injured, as the kid seems to play hard and have talent.   Shawn Walker went from no minutes, to starting and playing most of the game, back to no minutes.    As for Ace, he is what he is...a nice player for 7-10 minutes per game.   Yes, this is a game that earlier on I don't think we win, but it was still a win over a mid 100s team at home....hardly a signature win, but hopefully a nice building block.