With today’s loss at Marquette, Georgetown has dropped its last five in a row. After a promising start the team is now 12-8 and 3-6 in the Big East. I think it might be too early to start planning a trip to the NIT, but without question the Hoyas have a lot of work to do. A couple of thoughts after watching today’s game:

• DaJuan Summers’s foot injury seems to be a minor concern, because he played 37 minutes and was the best player on the floor for Georgetown. Summers scored the team’s first 8 points and was the main reason why the score was tied at halftime. But as has been the case in a number of Georgetown losses, the opposing team adjusted and limited him in the second half. There’s nothing wrong with the Hoyas riding their most reliable producer, but Summers’s teammates need to produce when defenses key in on him. That hasn’t been happening enough.
• The emergence of Nikita Mescheriakov as a competent, minute-eating reserve these past few games has been a pleasant surprise. But depth remains an issue for the Hoyas. Every player on the bench has the capability to be a meaningful contributor, but all lack consistency. Georgetown needs all its reserves to come ready to play each game if it wants to survive in the Big East.
• Sloppy play kills the Hoyas. They managed to outshoot Marquette from the field today, but countless fouls allowed the Golden Eagles to score 30 points from the free throw line. Georgetown also gives up too many inopportune turnovers (17 today), and all season long has allowed too many offensive rebounds (Marquette had 15 second-chance points).

Georgetown played better today than they have the past three games, but they also played a better opponent. The Hoyas still have a lot of problems to fix if they want to get off the bubble.