Front Line Collapse

With Ewing as a starter not really working, Georgetown now plays 3 guards, 1 swing man, and a center. Unlike last year, when they had one of the best front lines in all of college basketball (7-2, 6-9, 6-8), now they have a weak, undersized front court, especially by Big East standards. Summers now plays PF (6-8), Freeman plays SF, but is actually a guard and a soft non-rebounding 6-4. Georgetown essentially replaced Jeff Green with Austin Freeman, lost 5 inches, and now gets routinely decimated not only on the boards, which is atrocious, but also on some offensive possessions. Hibbert cannot dominate down low on his own, and one of the reasons defenses collapse on him so quickly is because there is not another player down there to take pressure. Georgetown is a soft, small, three point shooting team that goes on monster cold streaks. This is the type of team that just begs to lose in the round of the 32.

The answer, I think, is to start Hibbert, Macklin, Summer, Sapp and Wallace. 7-2, 7-0, 6-8. Get rebounds, let Hibbert get touches, and then bring Ewing, Freeman, Wright, and Rivers off the bench as necessary.