Now that March Madness is here, I feel that it is time to say that Georgetown's basketball team reminds me a lot of some of Princeton's early to mid 90's lacrosse teams. Georgetown hoops plays awesome defense, and Princeton's lacrosse teams back then had an awesome defense, led by players such as goalie Scott Bacigalupo, maybe the best ever, and defenseman David Morrow. Georgetown hoops has good offensive players and plays a ball control game and does a great job working the clock. Princeton's lacrosse teams back then had great offensive players like Andy Moe, Justin Tortolani, Scott Reinhardt, Kevin Lowe, Taylor Simmers, and Scott Conklin, and they ran the same kind of offense.

With this type of game plan in lacrosse or basketball(smothering defense and ball control offense), if a team executes it real well, it takes the other team, which usually plays more uptempo, out of their game. It is especially dangerous when a team that plays this way gets a large lead.

In 1992, very few people thought that Princeton had a shot to win it all. However, they quieted the doubters by beating North Carolina 16-14 in the semis and Syracuse 10-9 in double overtime in the title game.

This Georgetown basketball team is ranked in the Top 10. However, I don't think that many people are picking them to win it all! Could this be deja vu all over again.

P.S.-Of course, before coming to Georgetown, John Thompson, III was the basketball coach at Princeton.