Mourning-Mutombo Overcome Edey's 25 Pts, 11 Reb in Battle of Giants

Much like the 2024 title game, Zach Edey dominated (25 points, 11 rebounds, 7 blocked shots and drew 5 fouls on Alonzo Mourning) but got little help from his teammates (9 players combined for 35 points, 20 rebounds, 1 block).

It was five future NBA players against one, as Charles Smith, Jaren Jackson, John Turner and of course the 6'10 Alonzo Mourning and 7'2 Dikembe Mutombo were up against the 7'4 Edey.

Good luck getting to the rim on either end of the court with the 7'4 Edey protecting one rim or two of the greatest shot blockers of all time, Edey and Dikembe Mutombo at the other end waiting to give you the finger wag.

However, point guard Charles Smith scored 8 two-point buckets and distributed to help set up many of the 31 overall 2-point buckets in the Hoyas 83-70 win to move the tournaments Elite 8 where they can get revenge against Duke.

This 1989 Georgetown team was ranked #2 at the beginning and end of the season but ran into Duke in the Elite 8 and lost. Their next Value Add Basketball Game will be an all-time Elite 8 match-up against the 2015 Duke team. 

The winner of that game will face either 1-seed UConn 2023, or the winner of the last remaining Sweet 16 game between Wes Unseld's 1968 Louisville team against Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook's 2008 UCLA team.
 

Pos	Georgetown 1989	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht	Season Stats
1-PG	Charles Smith	16	0	8	0	0	2	2	0	1	6'1	18.7 Pts, 3.6 Reb, 5.1 Ast
2-SG	Dwayne Bryant	13	1	5	0	0	3	2	1	1	6'2	7.2 Pts, 2.6 Reb, 3.4 Ast
3-SF	Jaren Jackson	11	3	1	0	0	6	0	0	1	6'4	12.3 Pts, 5.2 Reb, 1.8 Ast
4-PF	Mark Tillmon	5	1	1	0	0	5	1	0	3	6'2	8.3 Pts, 2.3 Reb, 1.1 Ast
5-C	Alonzo Mourning	18	0	8	2	3	7	0	3	5	6'10	13.1 Pts, 7.3 Reb, 0.7 Ast
1-PG	Bobby Winston	8	0	4	0	0	3	1	0	1	6'5	5.0 Pts, 3.1 Reb, 3.0 Ast
2-SG	Ronnie Thompson	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6'4	1.7 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.6 Ast
3-SF	John Turner	8	0	3	2	3	5	0	0	1	6'8	6.6 Pts, 6.2 Reb, 0.9 Ast
5-C	Dikembe Mutombo	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	7'2	3.9 Pts, 3.3 Reb, 0.2 Ast
	Totals	83	5	31	4	6	31	6	4	14
Pos	Purdue 2024	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Ht	Season Stats
1-PG	Braden Smith	7	1	2	0	0	2	2	0	1	6'0	12.0 Pts, 5.8 Reb, 7.5 Ast
2-SG	Lance Jones	13	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	6'1	11.7 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 1.9 Ast
3-SF	Fletcher Loyer	2	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	1	6'4	10.3 Pts, 2.1 Reb, 1.9 Ast
4-PF	Mason Gillis	3	0	1	1	1	4	0	0	1	6'6	6.5 Pts, 3.9 Reb, 1.7 Ast
5-C	Zach Edey	25	0	10	5	10	11	0	7	3	7'4	25.2 Pts, 12.2 Reb, 2.0 Ast
1-PG	Ethan Morton	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	6'6	0.6 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 1.1 Ast
2-SG	Myles Colvin	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'5	3.3 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 0.4 Ast
3-SF	Camden Heide	6	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	2	6'7	3.3 Pts, 1.9 Reb, 0.4 Ast
4-PF	Trey Kaufman-Renn	6	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'9	6.4 Pts, 4.0 Reb, 0.9 Ast
5-C	Caleb Furst	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'10	2.2 Pts, 2.4 Reb, 0.6 Ast
	Totals	70	4	26	6	11	29	3	8	13

Here is the updated bracket followed by the scoresheet. The remaining 9 teams are the only undefeated of the 240 all-time great teams in the game except for the winners of our first teo tournaments - the 1972 UCLA and 1997 Kansas team.

And the scoresheet.