“We wore the shirts just to show our condolences to the family. No matter how you look at it, we don’t know who’s right or wrong, but they still lost somebody.”

The Verizon Center will play host to the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight rounds of next year’s Division I men’s college basketball tournament, the NCAA announced today.

Readers of the mothership are well aware that for about two weeks now, Gothamist has been going gaga over the on-court exploits of the New York Knicks’ midseason pickup Jeremy Lin. But just a few years ago, he was honing his craft against the Georgetown Hoyas.

Georgetown’s Late Dominance Earns Trip to Atlanta With six minutes remaining in regulation, the Georgetown Hoyas stared at a nine-point deficit. They were going to have to step up their play if they were to reach the Final Four, and do so against the highest caliber of opponent. The Hoyas did just that. They rallied to force overtime and took control in the extra period to come away with a 96-84 victory. The Hoyas’ staunch…

Prior to yesterday afternoon, the last time the Georgetown Hoyas took the court they put on an embarrassing performance, losing to South Florida and costing themselves a first-round bye in the Big East conference tournament in the process. In the first half of Wednesday’s game against Notre Dame, they extended their streak of mediocre-to-bad play to 60 minutes, missing their first 12 shots and trailing at the break before rallying for a 67-63 win….

>> After their recent struggles it was nice to see GW turn in such an impressive performance against Temple on Saturday. The Colonials trounced the Owls by a 74-58 mark and led from wire to wire. GW had a week to prepare for the game and installed a full court press to great effect. Omar Williams told the Post, “We wanted to come out and play aggressive. We were able to speed the game…