George Washington Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:05:58 PDT

The days when Pops Mensah-Bonsu roamed the court for the Colonels seems like a long, long time ago.

Yet, it was just four seasons ago the Colonials were stacked and won 27 games. Those days are long gone. George Washington has fallen on hard times. It failed to make the 12-team Atlantic-10 tournament last year and finished only better than Fordham.

Even matching last season's 4-12 conference record might be tough.

George Washington lost three of its top four scorers, and is going to be leaning heavily on its six newcomers, none of whom are real standouts.

The Colonels will rely on the experience and leadership of senior forward Damian Hollis, who did score 20-plus points in two of the team's last four games to shine a little light of hope on this...