With a No. 1 seed in the Big East Tournament for the second year in a row and a No. 9 national ranking , Georgetown had a bye in the first round . In the quarterfinals , the Hoyas faced eighth seed Villanova , also for the second year in a row . Villanova , a heavy underdog , fell behind 34-19 with 3:58 left in the first half , but over the rest of the first half and into the second half the Wildcats went on a 28-9 run to that gave them the lead , 47-43 , with 13:06 left in the game . Georgetown took the lead back at 51-50 with 12:04 left in the game and pulled away to an 82-63 victory . Although Villanova shot 23-for-28 ( 82.1 percent ) from the free-throw line and Roy Hibbert did not score during the game and had only four rebounds before fouling out with 5:09 to play , Georgetown made up for it by setting both a Big East Tournament record and a school record by connecting on 17 three-point shots during the game , shooting 17-for-28 ( 60.7 percent ) from three-point range . Jessie Sapp hit on six three-point shots and scored a career-high 23 points , Jonathan Wallace had five three-pointers and 20 points , and DaJuan Summers had 19 points and three three-pointers
Big East Tournament
2008 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
2007–08 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team