Shouts of Pride Echo in Georgetown
M Street near Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown becomes a peaceful but noisy tangle of exhilaration and amazement after the Hoyas' victory over the Tar Heels. Fireworks were heard from the campus. "I'm just really excited they pulled it off at the end," said freshman Sarah Nelson. "They're awesome."
(By James M. Thresher -- The Washington Post)
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Monday, March 26, 2007
The pressure of one of the most tense games of the NCAA basketball tournament was released all over M Street last night.
About 1,000 people filled the streets of Georgetown, many honking horns and screaming, a few standing on the tops of parked cars.
Shop owners stood in their doorways, cheering them on.
"All of a sudden, everybody ran out of their dorms," said Katie Abrams, 19, a freshman who participated. Some students lighted fireworks out of their dorm windows.
That's what happens when the home team Georgetown Hoyas are down 10 with about six minutes left in the game against the No. 1 seed in the East and come back to win.
"I wasn't expecting us to win by any means," said Claire Cooper, 19, also a freshman. "I was studying and I heard the yelling get louder and louder. And I had to come out and watch the next few minutes. I'm very proud and very surprised."
It was the topsy-turvy night on and around the campus of the now East Region champion Hoyas.
Students packed O'Donovan Dining Hall to watch their team. Freshman Zivile Badaraite and her friends did what they could to help. They had created "a shrine to our basketball team" with photos and news clippings in the corridors of their dorm. They had donned their lucky gray Hoyas T-shirts. And now they had arranged the tables and chairs in front of the big-screen TVs at O'Donovan, ready to show how much they cared as the Hoyas faced North Carolina.
"It's different when you come to college and see the players -- it's almost like they're your own," said Badaraite, 19.
When the Hoyas got off to a slow start, the fans on campus were down -- but not out.
Solomiya Pyatkovska was not blue that Georgetown was down by six at the half. Well, she was blue -- with a blue Hoyas bandanna around her head, a Hoyas tattoo on her face, blue jewelry and a blue Hoyas T-shirt. But she wasn't disheartened.
"The biggest thing right now is we have to play better defense at the perimeter and make sure they don't make too many three-point shots," she said.
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