Huge Week For Contending Hoyas

 Believe it or not, the week ahead is going to be huge for Georgetown. I know most of you are saying, "What? The next two games are Old Dominion and Harvard. Why does that mean anything for us?" Well, these two mid-majors are no push-overs.

Old Dominion's record doesn't tell much about them. Six wins (one in conference), four losses. Just an 'ole average mid-major that tries to hold it's own.

The Monarchs will definitely challenge the Colonial Athletic Conference for that automatic bid into the tournament. They have challenged and defeated some very good teams so far this season.

In my opinion, they were playing their best basketball around Thanksgiving time, where they edged out an eight point win against Marshall, along with barely getting beat by Mississippi State and Missouri, both of which were on the road. They also gave Dayton a good run last week, so it tells me they're not ready to quit bidding for an upset just yet.

 Former Michigan head coach Tommy Amaker has his Harvard Crimson playing great. We all have heard of the UConn game earlier this month and how Harvard gave the Huskies a run for their money.

The Crimson also took care of Boston College 74-67 on the road. Boston College could possibly be dancing come March as well. You can argue that neither BC or UConn came to play in the games, but it is obvious that Amaker's team comes to play game in, game out. At 7-2 on the season, Jeremy Lin is leading the Crimson to compete for an Ivy League Championship.

 If you can't tell that these two teams could easily upset the Hoyas, then I don't know what else to show you. We can't be living and playing on the big wins from last week against two top teams, Butler and Washington. It's a new week, so Monroe and company will need to be prepared for a couple of hard fought games.

If Greg Monroe performs well, you can assume Georgetown will do fine. I'm sure John Thompson III has been stressing to his team the importance of coming back to play this week and not looking ahead to some big conference games. He is a very good coach, so I expect the Hoyas to be ready to play.

 We need these two wins here to cap off non-conference play. If the Hoyas can go into conference play against St. John's with an unblemished record on New Year's Eve, that will make it all the more better as we try to fight throught the gruesome Big East schedule. I'd like to see us at 13-0 when we host UConn on the 9th of January.

 This week could indeed effect the rest of our season. Let's hope the Hoyas can come through. No meltdown this season.