University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Bulldog Men Ready for Georgetown in Nation's Capital
12.18.2015 | Men's Basketball
THE MATCHUP
Teams: Asheville (6-4, 1-0 BSC)
Georgetown (6-4, 0-0 Big East)
Location: Verizon Center/Washington, D.C.
Time: 12:00 p.m.
LIVE AUDIO (Bulldog Radio Network) - LIVE STATS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The UNC Asheville men's basketball team looks to match its longest winning streak in the last three seasons on Saturday afternoon when the Bulldogs take on the Georgetown Hoyas in the nation's capital.
Saturday's noon tipoff will be a Fox Sports regional telecast, and can be seen on Fox Sports Southeast in the Asheville area.
NOTABLES
Getting it Done on Defense: Asheville has held opponents under 65 points six times this season and are averaging allowing 63.5 points per game, the best mark in the Big South Conference. The Bulldogs allowed 70.4 points per game on average last season and held opponents to 65 or fewer points 11 total times. Overall, Asheville is holding opponents to just 40.4 percent shooting from the floor through 10 games in the 2015-16 campaign, third in the conference behind Coastal Carolina (37.6%) and Campbell (40.2%).
In the Series: Saturday's game will be the second meeting all-time between Asheville and Georgetown. The lone meeting came in November of 2010 when the Bulldogs fell to the No. 16-ranked Hoyas 87-62.
Against the Big East: The Bulldogs are 1-13 all-time against teams out of the Big East Conference. Their last meeting against a Big East school was their only victory, a 72-65 comeback win at St. John's on Dec. 21, 2012. Asheville's history with the Big East also includes the now infamous NCAA Tournament game against then-member Syracuse in March 2012 (72-65 loss).
At Verizon Center: Saturday's game will be the third visit to the Verizon Center for the Bulldogs. In addition to their meeting with Georgetown in Nov. 2010, Asheville went back to the nation's capital at the end of the 2010-2011 campaign and played Pittsburgh in the NCAA Tournament's Second Round, falling 74-51. Two days prior, the Bulldogs defeated Arkansas Little-Rock 81-77 in Dayton, OH in the very first “First Four” NCAA Tournament game.
QUOTABLES FROM HEAD COACH NICK McDEVITT
On Georgetown – “Georgetown has great tradition and they have a good basketball team this year so certainly we are going to have to be ready to play. They have a lot of size and a lot of guys who can shoot the ball from behind the arc, so we are going to have to be ready to play tomorrow.”
On Team Rebounding – “The term we use is gang rebounding. We have to have all five guys on the defensive glass particularly. When you play guys who are 6-7, 6-9, 7-0 on the front line as Georgetown does, it is going to be a tall challenge. We have faced that earlier this season, and we are going to have to negate some of their size tomorrow.”
UP NEXT
-After Saturday's game, the Bulldogs will travel home and take Sunday to prepare for Elon, who will come to Kimmel Arena for a Monday night 7:00 p.m. non-conference matchup.
