Georgetown looked its age Saturday afternoon, and probably not for the last time. There are inevitable struggles for a men’s basketball program that opts to enter the season with two upperclassmen on its roster. They arrived for the Hoyas in an 84-63 loss to Notre Dame at Capital One Arena.

Matt Allocco made his first four 3-point attempts and scored 17 points to get visiting Notre Dame off to a fast start on its way to a 84-63 victory over Georgetown on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Georgetown’s not the Georgetown of the past, and that’s too bad. Notre Dame looked like the Notre Dame of the past, and that’s good. “I think in instances like this, you prepare well out of fear,” Shrewsberry said. “Like, you go back to the future.