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Georgetown University junior guard Austin Freeman (Mitchellville, Md./DeMatha) was named to the BIG EAST Conference Weekly Honor Roll on Monday after his performance in a pair of games last week. It is the second-straight week that Freeman has been named to the Honor Roll and the seventh-straight week a Georgetown player has been recognized.
The No. 16/13 Georgetown University women's basketball squad will travel to the University of Pittsburgh on Wednesday for a BIG EAST matchup against the Panthers at the Petersen Events Center. The Hoyas are currently 19-3 overall and 8-1 in BIG EAST play to tie for second place in the conference standings.
Austin Freeman scored 25 points, Jason Clark had 24, and No. 7 Georgetown forced 16 first-half turnovers in a 103-90 victory Saturday that ended Villanova's 11-game winning streak and ruined the Wildcats' perfect Big East record.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Ibrahim Oweiss: 'Current Economic Global Depression: Causes and Effects With Reference to the Gulf Economies.'
Ibrahim Oweiss, Professor of Economics at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar talks about the state of the current global economic climate and its impact on the Gulf economies.