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The first big announcement of the summer came Monday morning for Georgetown fans, as ESPN reported that the Blue and Gray have officially locked up their first recruit of the Class of 2013 in forward Stephen Domingo.

A junior at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius High, Domingo chose Georgetown over Harvard, Stanford, UCLA and Washington. ESPN ranks him No. 28 in the Class of 2013, while Rivals.com places him at No. 29.

Domingo has drawn comparisons to former Georgetown forward Hollis Thompson, due to, well, everything about him. At 6-foot-7 and 200 lbs. with a silky three-point stroke, Domingo already looks like Thompson reincarnate on the court. His status as an academically talented West Coast product will only inspire more comparisons. For his part, the high school junior appears to be looking forward to filling that role.

“With my shooting ability, they put defenses in a position where I’ll get a shot or it’s easy to get a shot coming up or getting a back-door cut,” Domingo told ESPN.com. “They’ll make my shooting ability easy to play out of, and they have a great tradition with NBA guys.”

Domingo’s signing filled the Hoyas’ final scholarship slot. Because he won’t arrive on the Hilltop until Fall 2013, Georgetown could still theoretically sign another player for next year. However, this would require a player to transfer or declare for the draft following the 2012-2013 season.

Here’s a highlight reel of the newest member of the Hilltop family, courtesy of our friends over at Casual Hoya. Probably the most impressive part about Domingo’s game is his ability to get a shot off against tight defense; every other play in that highlight clip features a gorgeous fallaway jumper or double-clutch leaner. While his jumper is a bit unorthodox — mechanically, it’s actually closer to Reggie Miller’s than Hollis Thompson’s — he clearly makes it work.

So while today’s announcement will have zero effect on the outcome of the 2012-13 season, Hoyas fans still have reason to rejoice — a top-30 recruit is nothing to sneeze at.

Especially if he’s the second coming of Hollis Thompson.

Loyal readers, your friendly neighborhood editor would just like to give you all a heads-up that–with finals here on the Hilltop slated for the next week and a half or so–Hoya Paranoia will be taking a short subsequent hiatus. While I probably won’t be doing a whole lot of studying due to a disorder I like to refer to imlazyandtheinternetisamazinglydistracting-itis, our more studious contributors to the blog cannot say the same.

After finals culminate on May 12th, however, Paranoia will be back as strong as ever, with coverage of the NBA Playoffs, Olympics, MLB regular season, European Championships, and a whole lot more.

Until then, though, Hoya Saxa, and we’ll see you soon.

– Ryan

So Blog Overlord Lawson’s not really dead (though that did grab your attention, huh?), instead just moving on to the “real world” following graduation, which in the end may actually be a fate worse than death.

What all this means for Hoya Paranoia is that Lawson won’t be running things here anymore. I kind of alluded to it in the Weekend Review below, but instead, he, Pat Curran, and new Senior Sports Editor Evan Hollander have left Paranoia in my hands, which I’d like to think are highly capable ones. I guess we’ll find out. You’ve probably — I hope — seen my blog posts over the course of the last year, so I feel as if I have a good grasp of what we’re trying to achieve, and I’ll do my best to keep the stories quick, the tone light, and the information, well, informative.

As Georgetown’s sports teams are obviously approaching the end of their respective seasons, I’d like to make it clear that we will keep this blog running over the summer months. We’re going to include a mix of posts each week on a variety of national and international sports, so stick around for features on the MLB regular season along with coverage of the NBA playoffs, international soccer, the Olympics, and the horseracing Triple Crown, among others.

It’s gonna be a fun ride, so be sure to stay tuned. Hoya Saxa.

— Ryan

The Hoya’s very own Evan Hollander scored twelfth-row tickets to the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden, and will be sharing his end-of-day thoughts with us at, well, the end of every day. If you see him, give him a shout and he’ll give you an autograph. Or something.

Despite the disappointment of Georgetown’s loss on Thursday afternoon, the Big East tournament rolled on Friday, and it did so with two impressive semifinal upsets. Because Syracuse and Notre Dame were defeated, two unranked teams will surprisingly vie for the championship tonight at 9 p.m.  Continue reading →

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