The emergence of Henry Sims fuels a surprising Georgetown team

Not much was expected from Georgetown this season. Ken Pomeroy had them at 50th. They didn't get a single vote in the preseason AP or Coaches Polls. And for good reason - they lost their top-2 scorers and assist men (Austin Freeman and Chris Wright) and their leading rebounder (Julian Vaughn) to graduation, and two key bench players (Jerrelle Benimon and Vee Sanford) left the program. And of the four players on the roster taller than 6'8, two were freshmen who likely weren't ready to make a major contribution, one was a sophomore who appeared in six games as a freshman, and one was a senior who had spent his career (mostly) on the bench. What this team was best known for was a brawl it got into with a Chinese team over the summer. This was supposed to be a building year for John Thompson III. But college basketball has a funny way of not working out like it is supposed to. Georgetown sits at 9-1, is 16th in both the major polls, and 17th in the Pomeroys. Their leading s...