It’s been a record-setting week for Georgetown’s James Reilly.

The senior surpassed Andy Corno’s school mark for career ground balls in Saturday’s 20-10 rout of Marquette, then moved past Corno’s career total for faceoff victories in Tuesday’s 14-7 triumph over Loyola.

Reilly now has 356 ground balls, 15 more than Corno had for the Hoyas from 2002 to 2005. His 13-for-24 outing against Loyola put him at 633 faceoff victories, while Corno had 624 for his career. –ss

“It’s been awesome,” coach Kevin Warne said. “He wasn’t a guy who was highly recruited, but he’s just a hard worker and to stay and be productive at the X for four years, that’s a lot of whistles. That’s a lot of getting knocked around. He deserves the credit that he’s getting.”

Reilly is also an exception to many of the string of records set across the sport. The bonus year of eligibility due to the pandemic has given players more games to accumulate anything — goals, assists, saves, faceoff wins — and various career lists will probably be a bit skewed for years to come because of it.

Reilly, though, has done his work in just four seasons. Tuesday marked his 52nd career game, four fewer than Corno played in his remarkable career —  which included a second-team All-American nod in 2004 as a midfielder before the USILA added a specific spot for faceoff specialists.

Reilly turned in a solid freshman year, staying above .500 for most of the season before dipping to 49.2 percent thanks to an NCAA tournament encounter with Yale’s TD Ierlan. But it also set up success in the abbreviated 2020 season (68.9 percent) and last year’s 58.3 percent showing as the Hoyas earned their first NCAA quarterfinal trip since 2007.

“Getting thrown in freshman year and taking 400-something reps and winning some of them and not winning a lot of them —that freshman experience definitely helps,” Reilly said. “Getting thrown out there for full games for four years now, it’s a lot of faceoffs.”

Reilly’s 2021 postseason ended with an injury on the opening faceoff of the quarterfinal loss to Virginia, but he has come back to win 62.7 percent of his draws in his fourth year at Georgetown as the Hoyas (11-1) enter Saturday’s home game against St. John’s.

He’s won more than half of his draws all but once this season (the exception was against Lehigh star Mike Sisselberger), and he’s helped ensure the Hoyas’ potent offense has plenty of chances to put together extended spurts like the seven-goal burst spanning halftime that buried Loyola on Tuesday.

“Having him, you know you’re going to get the ball back one way or another,” senior attackman Dylan Watson said. “Either he pinches and pops or he scraps for it. It’s a calming presence at the X knowing he has a very good chance of getting that ball for us.”