Georgetown beats Savannah State in men's basketball

Jason Clark scored a career-high 14 points, and four Hoyas were in double figures as No. 19 Georgetown rolled to a 63-44 victory against overmatched Savannah State on Saturday.

Greg Monroe added 13 points for visiting Georgetown (3-0). Austin Freeman had 12 and Chris Wright added 11 in a game that gave the Hoyas a much-needed breather after they squeaked past Temple, 46-45, on Tuesday.

Darius Baugh scored 10 points to lead Savannah State (2-2), which made only 13 of 48 shots from the field.

The highlight for Savannah State came when the Tigers surprised the crowd and the Hoyas by jumping out to a 7-0 lead. That prompted Georgetown Coach John Thompson III to call a timeout, and it was all Hoyas the rest of the way.

The first of Clark's four three-pointers started a burst that quickly tied the game at 7. A few minutes later, Wright scored seven consecutive points to help open a 10-point lead, and the Hoyas led 34-20 at the half.

"The number of points Jason scores is irrelevant," Thompson said. "He plays great defense and he's a very unselfish player. He's at the core of what we're doing this year. He's going to have a lot more than 14 as we go along."

The second half was more of the same. Monroe, a 6-foot-11 sophomore who was rookie of the year in the Big East last season, scored all seven points in a run that produced the game's biggest lead, 50-29, with 9 minutes 47 seconds remaining.

Still, it was closer than last season, when Georgetown hosted the Tigers at Verizon Center and cruised to a 100-38 victory.

Savannah State is coached by Horace Broadnax, who played for the 1984 Georgetown team that won the NCAA championship.

"For us to come down here was for Horace as much as anything else," Thompson said.

-- VIRGINIA 76, ORAL ROBERTS 55: Mike Scott scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Sylven Landesberg added 14 points to lead the host Cavaliers in the final states-side game of the Cancun Challenge.

On Tuesday in Cancun, Mexico, Virginia (3-1) will play Stanford.