GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Roughly 36 hours out from this epic clash of Good vs Evil and I am already too excited to sleep. 
Apparently, the Smith Center will be stained by the presence of twats supporting (and maybe even from) That School Down the Street. In the spirit of good banter (and ill will), I say the following to them:
1) Fuck you.
2) No, really. Fuck you.
3) This could be a great rivalry (up there with Harvard-Yale, Cal-Stanford and Duke-UNC) with regional supremacy both off and on the court at stake, but alas you lot have been too chicken to make it happen. So have a good time at our on-campus (jealous now?) arena and then tell your administration that this gathering should happen EVERY YEAR without fail. Only YOU can make this a reality, because your powers-that-be have been ducking this match up since the Carter Administration,
4) Walk or take public transit to the game, it is not as if DC´s parking and traffic woes are any better in our part of NW.
5) Is our mascot a representation of the Founder of Our University and former president while your´s is just some dog? Yes. Let that teach you where you stand in the global pecking order.
6) Look up in our rafters and you will see a National Championship banner from this century (NIT is a national tournament), so get off your high horse about what your Evil Empire conquered by force in the 1980s. 

Go GW!!! Kick some Hoya butt!

I posted a screenshot of this on Twitter (because it's amazing and I love the passion for a team we haven't played in 44 years). It has unfortunately reached the troglodytes on Georgetown basketball Twitter and responses have been a smattering of the following:

- "I don't think about you at all"
- "NIT banner flex is crazy"
- "All I'm saying is GW needs ads on the metro and my Instagram feed to convince me that they're a relevent (misspelled) program. Georgetown's basketball history and current upward trajectory speaks for itself"
- "Someone didn't get in"
- "It ain't that serious"
- "Congrats on that NIT banner nerds"
- "Georgetown waitlist"
- (From a Mason fan) "Beat them badly, but not so badly to deter them from scheduling you again"
- (From a Butler fan) " This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen but hoping for the best from GW"
- A story about how GW students marched to Georgetown's campus to demand they restart the series between the schools. Meanwhile Georgetown was playing a game downtown at the time so no one was there to see it

I am hoping these comments can serve as motivation for tomorrow when we hopefully ROLL them

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Roughly 36 hours out from this epic clash of Good vs Evil and I am already too excited to sleep. 
Apparently, the Smith Center will be stained by the presence of twats supporting (and maybe even from) That School Down the Street. In the spirit of good banter (and ill will), I say the following to them:
1) Fuck you.
2) No, really. Fuck you.
3) This could be a great rivalry (up there with Harvard-Yale, Cal-Stanford and Duke-UNC) with regional supremacy both off and on the court at stake, but alas you lot have been too chicken to make it happen. So have a good time at our on-campus (jealous now?) arena and then tell your administration that this gathering should happen EVERY YEAR without fail. Only YOU can make this a reality, because your powers-that-be have been ducking this match up since the Carter Administration,
4) Walk or take public transit to the game, it is not as if DC´s parking and traffic woes are any better in our part of NW.
5) Is our mascot a representation of the Founder of Our University and former president while your´s is just some dog? Yes. Let that teach you where you stand in the global pecking order.
6) Look up in our rafters and you will see a National Championship banner from this century (NIT is a national tournament), so get off your high horse about what your Evil Empire conquered by force in the 1980s. 

Go GW!!! Kick some Hoya butt!

Perhaps the greatest title of a GWhoops post ever. Echoing the very well done and perhaps too polite points, the popular Internet for such posts functionally didn't even exist the last time they had the courage to play us.
 Have had a hard time understanding why when we have bigger threads on some of our patsy games, not a lot of interest emerged here. Seemed odd. Especially for the first game of the season, exhibition or not. 
Finally, here above is the passion and the rationale for why this is a very important game to GW fans. If only Mark Plotkin were with us to witness this.
   And, as GWAA so eloquently noted, "What the hell is a Hoya?!!!!
  Hopefully, whatever it is will be dragging its tail between its legs on the walk back home.
   

GWRising wrote:

Win, and I don't care about Georgetown basketball. Lose, and I still don't care about Georgetown basketball.
 

I couldn’t disagree more.  Win and it’s massive. Bragging rights and DC hoops supremacy to hold over those cowards until they play us again in another 40 years.

Lose and it’s just a meaningless preseason game, and we would obviously beat them if they’d play us in a game that counts. 😂

Lot of ticket interest for such a meaningless exhibition game.
Let's hope it's not the evil enemy buying them.
 We are supposed to have great depth, for which we opened up our wallet this year.
And this means a lot to a solid percentage of the fan base, as well as the many who are seemingly
buying tickets.
   Based on preseason rankings posted here, we should be expected to win. Add in the apparently expected large crowd and home court advantage, we should also win.
So let's go out and show them, "What the hell's a Hoya!

DC Native wrote:

To me, this is the most important exhibition game in GW MBB history. At the same time, this game is less important than every regular season game we will play this year. Still, looking forward to the game. It should be fun!

Agreed 100%.

GWRising wrote:

jf wrote:

Lot of ticket interest for such a meaningless exhibition game.
Let's hope it's not the evil enemy buying them.
 We are supposed to have great depth, for which we opened up our wallet this year.
And this means a lot to a solid percentage of the fan base, as well as the many who are seemingly
buying tickets.
   Based on preseason rankings posted here, we should be expected to win. Add in the apparently expected large crowd and home court advantage, we should also win.
So let's go out and show them, "What the hell's a Hoya!

My sources say Georgetown has sold over 1,000 tickets for the game. Yes, this was likely to have higher attendance because of the two schools proximity. But if it was solely up to GW, this game might get 3,000 - 3,500 at best. That is sad for a school the size of GW but true. We need to do better, much better, on the attendance front if we want a consistent top notch program.
 

You know what sells tickets? Games people care about (like today): Cal and Stanford used to sell half of the stadium (no matter who was hosting) for their football game. And guess what? It would sell out even in seasons when both teams were terrible and struggled to draw 25% capacity for games against San Jose St, and UoP. Why? People cared. Now, if GW is able to sell 3,000 (or even HALF that many) tickets for the Maine or ODU games, I will eat my hat on this. People bought tickets because this game is of interest far beyond any that could be created by GW hosting NJIT or That School Down the Street hosting whatever that music conservatory is they used to bring in to the mega arena. Nothing sad about a packed gym (and WVU in the 1980s and 1990s used to bring 2000 or so fans to their games at the Smith Center), I expect an electric atmosphere, and a positive entry in the accounting ledger.

I am terribly bummed but a pre-season amount of turnovers and an opponent that hits its threes will result in an L, be it in October or March. Still, it looks like the game attracted a great and enthusiastic crowd, so if logic prevails this will become a regular feature in the calendar.