Two days after the loss to Butler , Georgetown 's four-game homestand continued with its first conference win , a runaway victory over St. John 's – the Hoyas ′ twelfth straight home win over the Red Storm – with L. J. Peak scoring 16 points that included a 10-for-10 free-throw shooting performance , Rodney Pryor and Jagan Moseley each scoring 13 points , and Marcus Derrickson adding 11 . A break from conference action followed , as UConn visited the Verizon Center to conclude a home-and-home series begun the previous season . The Hoyas and Huskies were charter members of the original Big East Conference in 1979 and had met each season throughout that conference 's 34-year history , but the rivalry had lapsed when Georgetown left the conference in the summer of 2013 to join the new Big East Conference while UConn remained behind in the old conference , renamed the American Athletic Conference and marketed as " the American ; " the two-season home-and-home series revived play between the teams after a two-season absence . UConn had won the previous year , but this time the Hoyas overcame a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the Huskies and improve their all-time record against UConn to 36 – 30 . L. J. Peak scored 21 points , 16 of them in the second half , Jesse Govan came off the bench to finish with 15 , and Rodney Pryor had 14 . Georgetown 's two-game winning streak and four-game homestand both came to an end two days later , when Providence visited Georgetown and won easily to sweep the regular-season series between the teams and stretch its winning streak against the Hoyas to six . Peak scored 13 points and Pryor 12 , but the Hoyas as a team shot only 18-for-55 ( 32.7 percent ) from the field and only 5-for-23 ( 21.7 percent ) from three-point range against the Friars
original Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
2016–17 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team