For Georgetown, Things Are Not All Wright Without Senior Star

by David SteeleFiled under: Georgetown, SyracuseWASHINGTON -- The difference between a Georgetown team with Chris Wright and without him, might be the difference between Georgetown getting a high seed in the NCAA tournament, as well as the Big East tournament, and getting a lower one. That's not perception. That's the reality of the two games the Hoyas have lost with Wright injured. The senior guard and floor leader broke a bone in his left hand in the first half of Wednesday's game against Cincinnati, and the Hoyas lost. He was on the Verizon Center floor Saturday afternoon only for the pre-game ceremony honoring the seniors, gingerly embracing the coaches with the hand, the non-shooting one, wrapped after surgery two days ago. Georgetown lost that game, too, to No. 17 Syracuse, 58-51, before 20,276, the largest crowd for a Georgetown game in the arena -- albeit one liberally populated with Syracuse fans. The best-case scenario for Georgetown, ranked 11th as the week...