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 NEW YORK (AP) - Roy Hibbert went from scoring a season low to a season high, and has ninth-ranked Georgetown playing for another Big East tournament championship. The 7-foot-2 center had 25 points and 13 rebounds, and Georgetown withstood West Virginia's only big run midway through the second half to beat the Mountaineers 72-55 in the semifinals Friday night.
Georgetown (27-4) led 51-47 with just over 11 minutes left, but the Mountaineers didn't get another basket until Joe Alexander scored with 3:13 to go. By then, Hibbert and the Hoyas had a 20-point lead and were thinking about a date with either seventh-seeded Pittsburgh or No. 6 seed Marquette in Saturday night's title game.
Georgetown went to the perimeter in its quarterfinal victory over Villanova, matching a tournament record with 17 3-pointers. Hibbert had perhaps the worst game of his career in that one, going scoreless and managing just four rebounds before fouling out.
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