WASHINGTON — The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team headed into the halftime locker room with a 10 point lead over old Big East rival Georgetown. The Orange looked in control. All it had to do was close out the final 20 minutes to cruise to victory.
But Patrick Ewing made an adjustment at the intermission. The Georgetown head coach went to a small ball lineup and inserted Aminu Mohammed in the middle of the Syracuse zone.
“They just went small, got it to Mohammed in the middle and he really hurt us in there,” Jimmy Boeheim said after the game.