The Hoyas’ head coach made no buts about Tuesday night’s game
Georgetown head coach Ed Cooley continues to rear the Hoyas up the Big East pyramid from the bottom of the conference. Through Cooley’s first two years, the Hoyas went from only winning once in a blue moon and constantly fighting from behind to working their tails off and playing competitive basketball. Entering this week, the Hoyas were in the back half of the conference but stood at a more respectable 4-5 in the Big East, doubling last year’s conference win total in less than half as many games.
It was easy to forget Georgetown’s progress in their Tuesday night meeting versus No. 15 St. John’s. The Red Storm cracked the game open with a 23-3 run and expanded their lead to as many as 30 points. Even though their offense stalled out after halftime, the stout St. John’s defense played a full forty minutes. Georgetown was held to only 24% shooting and 41 total points — the Hoyas’ second-fewest points ever scored in a game versus a Big East opponent — which sealed a 66-41 romp over their longtime rivals.
Expressing frustration at an uncompetitive performance by his team, Ed Cooley created an anatomical visual of how the game went down during his postgame press conference.
“They put their foot up our ass. That was a defensive clinic they just put on. Complete foot up our ass,” Cooley commented in Tuesday’s postgame press conference.
This wasn’t the first time Cooley gushed about St. John’s using tush-related language this season. After the Johnnies narrowly defeated the Hoyas in their first regular season meeting two weeks prior, Ed Cooley rebuked AP voters who left St. John’s off their top 25 polls.
“That’s one of the best teams we’ve played all year,” Georgetown coach Ed Cooley said in the postgame press conference on January 14, “I don’t know if there’s a close second. This team is really, really good… For everybody behind that iron mic who has a vote, wake your ass up.”
As Georgetown looks to wipe the slate clean ahead of their next game against Butler on Friday, St. John’s returns home for a matchup versus Providence on Saturday, February 1 (12:00 p.m., CBS Sports Network).