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Georgetown gets to face the new school on block

By JIM O'CONNELL AP Basketball Writer

Posted:
03/21/2013 07:28:23 PM EDT

PHILADELPHIA—Georgetown has been to five Final Fours in its rich basketball history. Florida Gulf Coast University, the Hoyas' opponent in the second round of the NCAA tournament, has been a Division I program for six years.

"We're going to do what we do, they're going to do what they do," Thompson said Thursday, a day before the teams meet in the second round of the South Regional. "A lot of times, when you get to the NCAA tournament and you look at lower-seeded teams, they're very good teams, but physically, they don't match up. Florida Gulf Coast is a very athletic team. They aren't a small team that just happens to beMiami game was a big win for us but those other games we really competed in."

Eighth-ranked Georgetown (25-6) was one of the tri-champions of the Big East and the Hoyas were eliminated in the conference tournament by Syracuse.

FGCU (24-10) finished second in the Atlantic Sun regular season and then beat Mercer in the tournament championship game. It was the second season the Eagles had been eligible for postseason play and they took it to the NCAA level.

And now they get Georgetown, one of the best defensive teams in the country.

The Hoyas held 20 opponents under 60 points this season and the 55.7 points they gave up per game had them seventh in the NCAA. Teams shot 37.6 percent from the field against them, fourth-best in the NCAA.

"We've done