Seton Hall entered the Big East Tournament on a five-game winning streak, the longest in the conference. They stayed hot early against Georgetown, scoring the game’s first four points and forcing Patrick Ewing to burn an early timeout.
Out of that timeout, the Hoyas seemed to find some of that spark that propelled them to a championship in this building a year ago. Georgetown’s freshman sensation, Aminu Mohammed, began to light up the scoreboard, scoring the next six points. Georgetown put together a 13-2 run and raced out to a 13-4 lead behind Mohammed, Collin Holloway, and Donald Carey.