One week later, still the same result.

Just eight days after falling to the No. 7 Connecticut Huskies in their season finale, the Hoyas again succumbed to the defending Big East champions in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament on Sunday.

Suffering from the same problems as it had the week before, Georgetown (10-9-1, 6-6-1 Big East) managed just three shots in the contest and lost to Connecticut (13-3-1, 8-3-1) by a score of 5-0.

In a match that was closer than the score suggested, the Hoyas put up a fight against the national-powerhouse Huskies. Although they were outshot 17-3, the Hoyas kept the match close with tough defense and difficult saves by junior keeper Andrew Keszler.

The Huskies first got on the board in the 10th minute. UConn junior forward Stanley Ford sent a high cross into the box that freshman midfielder O’Brian White headed high into the net past the reach of Keszler.

After the early goal, Georgetown was able to shut down the UConn offense, allowing just five more shots in the half. Keszler also did his part to keep the game in reach when he stopped a penalty kick in the 25th minute after a foul in the box, and the teams went to intermission with the Huskies still up just 1-0.

In the teams’ previous matchup, the score was also 1-0 in favor of UConn at the half and both teams had an opportunity to take this game when they came out of the locker rooms on Sunday. For 20 minutes the two squads battled, but neither could find the net.

Finally, in the 64th minute, the Huskies broke the scoring drought when the Hoyas again committed a foul in the penalty box. UConn was not going to miss two penalty shots in one game, and sophomore midfielder Karl Schilling extended the Huskies’ lead to 2-0 with his first goal of the year.

Although 2-0 is not an insurmountable lead, it was on this day for the Hoyas. Despite more than tripling their shots in the second half – the Hoyas took three shots in the second half compared to zero in the first – the Georgetown offense never found its stride. In the end, the Hoya defense that had kept the game close all afternoon finally broke down, and the Huskies scored three goals in the closing 10 minutes of the contest to give themselves a comfortable 5-0 victory heading into the semifinal match against No. 16 St. John’s on Friday.

This loss marks the sixth time the Hoyas were shutout in 2005 and the second time they were shutout by the Huskies. In the two matches the Hoyas totaled just seven shots, while Keszler had 13 saves overall.

Georgetown finishes the season with an overall record of 10-9-1, the fourth time the Hoyas have finished over .500 since 2000. The team can still hold on to an outside hope for an NCAA tournament bid, which will be announced next week. The top 64 teams in the nation go on to play in the tournament, and the Hoyas’ one week in the top 25 during late September may help earn them an at-large bid.