Since Hoyas are plants, why do the Georgetown Hoya Basketball team use a picture of a bulldog?

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http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/bulldog.htm Mar 14 03, 4:22 AM

McGruff

I had put this under the other question about hoyas. ''And then there are the Georgetown Hoyas. The Georgetown mascot is a bulldog, but Hoya doesn't mean bulldog. The story is that the Georgetown football team's defense was once nicknamed the {Stonewalls;} fans would yell 'What rocks (they are)!', which they translated into Latin and Greek as 'Hoya saxa!' And the name stuck. So the Hoyas are apparently the Whats. Although I'm told Hoya is not a very good transliteration of the Greek word.'' http://www.kith.org/logos/words/upper3/QQQuakers.html Mar 14 03, 9:46 AM

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