Hoyas send Huskies to fourth straight loss

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02/01/2012 - Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hollis Thompson had 18 points, leading No. 14 Georgetown over Connecticut, 58-44, on Wednesday night and sending the Huskies to their first four-game losing streak in almost two years.

Henry Sims added 13 points and Jason Clark scored 11 for the Hoyas (17-4, 7-3 Big East), who bounced back from a loss at Pittsburgh on Saturday to win for the fourth time in five games.

The reigning champion Huskies (14-7, 4-5) have dropped four in a row for the first time since February 28-March 9, 2010, on the way to missing the NCAA Tournament.

They were led in this one by Andre Drummond's 18 points and Jeremy Lamb's 14.

Connecticut fell out of the rankings for the first time in 28 weeks following losses to Cincinnati, Tennessee and Notre Dame and will get its next chance to snap out of it Saturday against Seton Hall.

Georgetown trailed by six points several times early on, but took the lead for good with a 7-0 run later in the first half. Thompson's three-pointer capped it, giving the Hoyas an 18-15 advantage.

It was part of a larger 20-6 run to end the half, which made it 31-21 at the break, and an overall 23-6 burst that ended on Thompson's three-pointer early in the second.

Thompson was 3-for-7 on three-pointers and Georgetown went 5-of-13 as a team while shooting 43.8 percent overall. The Huskies went just 2-for-20 from long range -- Lamb had both makes -- and shot 30 percent.

Connecticut was within six points with less than eight minutes remaining, but the Hoyas used a 10-2 run to put the game away. Sims' layup made it 55-41 with 3:49 to play and the Huskies were never closer than 12 after that.

Game Notes

Georgetown remains in D.C. to play South Florida on Saturday...Thompson had a game-high nine rebounds...Sims had seven of Georgetown's 15 turnovers...The Huskies shot just 6-for-13 on free throws.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.