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2005-06 GEORGETOWN MEN’S BASKETBALL Tradition 100 HOYA BASKETBALL GEORGETOWN STAFF TEAM 2004-05 REVIEW TRADITION RECORDS OPPONENTS MEDIA 2005-06 GEORGETOWN MEN’S BASKETBALL 101 MEDIA OPPONENTS RECORDS TRADITION 2004-05 REVIEW TEAM STAFF GEORGETOWN HOYA BASKETBALL BASKETBALL HOYA GEORGETOWN Hoya Tradition The Georgetown Basketball program has been highlighted by rich tradition... Historical records show us the accomplishments of future Congressman Henry Hyde and his team in the 1940’s. Professional achievement tells us of the academic rigor and athletic pursuits of the 1960’s that helped shape Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner of the NFL. Trophies, awards and championships are evidence of the success John Thompson Jr. compiled in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s. STAFF STAFF It is the total combination: academic and athletic excellence, focus, dedication and hard work instilled in Hoya teams throughout the last century that built men who would not only conquer the basketball court and beyond, but serve their communities. TEAM 2004-05 REVIEW That is the tradition of Georgetown University and its basketball program. HOYA TIMELINE 1907 1943 1980 1982 Maurice Joyce hired as first Basketball discontinued due BIG EAST Conference formed Georgetown wins second BIG head coach to WWII … Hoyas adopt Capital Centre EAST tournament … Hoyas (19,035 seating capacity) as advance to NCAA tournament TRADITION 1942 1945 home … Georgetown ends championship game Buddy O’Grady, Al Lujak and Basketball resumes nation’s longest Division I Don Martin graduate and are home-court winning streak 1984 selected for NBA 1950 at 57 by closing Manley Hoyas win second BIG EAST McDonough Gymnasium built Field House with a win over regular-season and third BIG 1943 Syracuse 52-50 … Hoyas tie EAST tournament title on Hoyas led by Henry Hyde 1972 for BIG EAST way to 34-3 overall record … RECORDS appearOPPONENTS in NCAA Final Four John Thompson Jr. named regular-season Georgetown wins national head coach … he finishes his crown and win championship, defeating 27-year career at GU with a first BIG EAST Houston 84-75 596-239 record tournament as Craig 1985 1974 Shelton Hoyas, ranked No. 1 Freshman Derrick Jackson earns all year, fall to second- connects on 18-foot shot tournament ranked St. John’s and with :02 left to give Hoyas MVP then reclaim top spot in an improbable 62-61 win honors the “Sweater Game” in at West Virginia in front of … Hoyas New York City … Team wins 14,000 hostile Mountaineers to advance fourth BIG EAST tournament win the ECAC-South final … to regional and amasses a record of Georgetown makes first NCAA finals in NCAA 35-3, defeating St. John’s a MEDIA tournament appearance under tournament third time in NCAA Final Four coach John Thompson Jr. … Hoyas advance to NCAA championship game versus Villanova 102 2005-06 GEORGETOWN MEN’S BASKETBALL Hoya Tradition GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN BASKETBALL HOYA National Champions – 1984 BIG EAST Regular-Season Champions – 1980, 1984, NCAA Finalist – 1943, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996 1984, 1985 BIG EAST Tournament STAFF NCAA Final Four – 1943, 1982, Champions – 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989 NCAA Elite Eight – 1980, 1982, NIT Finalist – 1993, 2003 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1996 NIT Final Four – 1978, NCAA Sweet Sixteen – 1980, 1993, 2003 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2001 1987 testing and exclusionary 1992 2001 “Reggie and the Miracles” win financial legislation; the rule Hoyas earn fifth BIG EAST Hoyas advance to Sweet 16 of GU’s third BIG EAST regular- is subsequently changed … regular-season crown… NCAA tournament with a 25-8 season crown, fifth BIG EAST Georgetown wins fourth BIG John Thompson named BIG overall record tournament championship and EAST regular-season crown, EAST Coach of the Year while 2004-05 REVIEW TEAM advances to NCAA Elite Eight sixth BIG EAST tournament Mourning is Player of the Year 2004 championship and advances John Thompson III named 1989 to NCAA Elite Eight 1993 head coach … guides the TRADITION Head coach John Thompson Hoyas advance to NIT Hoyas to an impressive 19-13 boycotts two games, walking 1990 championship game record and a postseason off the floor in protest of Hoyas Alonzo Mourning and berth in his first season the NCAA’s adoption of Dikembe Mutombo named 1995 “Proposition 42” bringing BIG EAST Co-Defensive Allen Iverson garners national attention to issues Players of the Year both BIG EAST Rookie of of misuse of standardized the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors … GU reaches NCAA “Sweet 16” 1996 GU wins BIG EAST regular- season crown and advances to NCAA Elite Eight … Iverson OPPONENTS RECORDS wins second BIG EAST Defen- sive Player of the Year Award 1997 Home games move to MCI Center … Team wins seventh BIG EAST regular-season title 103 MEDIA 2005-06 GEORGETOWN MEN’S BASKETBALL BASKETBALL HOYA GEORGETOWN Top Games in Hoya History 1943 NCAA Semifinals 1970 NIT “Believe it or Not … By Ripley” Never Underestimate the Power of a Hoya Facing basketball legend George Senior guard Mike Laska drew the Mikan and his veteran DePaul squad, an unenviable and seemingly impossible inexperienced team of Hoyas approaches task of containing LSU’s basketball it’s second ever game in the NCAA tour- legend “Pistol” Pete Maravich when the nament. The Hoyas are 3 to 1 underdogs Hoyas faced the Tigers in the 1970 NIT. and opposing coaches claim that “DePaul To everyone’s disbelief, Laska played will name its own score!” against the the defensive game of a lifetime. In the STAFF STAFF younger Hoyas. first ten minutes of the game, the NCAA’s Playing before a crowd of 14,085 all-time leading scorer had but one field on March 29, 1943, at Madison Square goal. For the game, Maravich shot 6 for 16 Garden, The Hoyas trail throughout the from the field and had 20 points overall, a opening frame and are down by seven as performance he called “pitiful”. To Hoya the half winds down until a 50 foot shot at fans, it was something else entirely. the buzzer by GU’s Lloyd Potolicchio nar- With Maravich under wraps, LSU’s TEAM rows2004-05 REVIEW the DePaul lead to 28-23. front line of 6-8 Danny Hester, 6-8 Al The Hoyas storm back in the second Sanders, and 6-9 Bill Newton took ad- half, building a 40-36 lead with 10 minutes vantage of its height. With the ball going remaining when GU’s John Mahnken, inside, the Tiger trio combined for 56 1982 NCAA Finals vs. North Carolina who had been neutralizing Mikan, fouls points and 43 rebounds, and three Hoyas out. At this point, all appeared lost, as (Adrion, Laughna, and senior Paul Favor- fouled again to stop the clock. He later Georgetown has no one tall enough to ite) fouled out in the process. told the New York Daily News that “I stay with Mikan. Still, the Blue and Gray would not quit. remembered the way my dad (LSU coach Against all expectation Coach Elmer Trailing 81-74 with 3:08 to play, the Press Maravich) got on me for missing the Ripley brings 6-3 Henry Hyde off the Hoya defense went to work, other one, so I figured I’d better make it.” bench to contain DePaul’s 6-10 big and LSU would not score an- Despite the cries of every Hoya fan in the man, which Hyde does through the other field goal the rest of the building, Maravich sank both free throws, conclusion of regulation. The Hoyas game. A pair of Georgetown and a final Hoya score closed out the TRADITION win a 53-49 decision, prompting a goals narrowed the count to 83-82 LSU win. Hoya fan to shout out the quote of the 81-78 with under a minute to tournament: “Believe it or not … play, and as Maravich looked The Shot Everybody Saw by Ripley!” to dribble out the clock, he Georgetown defeats George Washington was fouled. With at McDonough Gymnasium, 2/23/78 1975 ECAC-South Final the game on the With time running out (0:02) and the Georgetown defeats West line, Maravich Hoyas down by two, Craig Esherick hoists RECORDS VirginiaOPPONENTS at the Morgantown missed the front a 35 footer which ties the game as regula- Coliseum, 3/18/75 end of the one- tion expires. The Hoyas go on to defeat Down one with under and-one, and the the Colonials 78-77 in overtime. The 10 seconds left, fresh- Hoyas were still Hoyas’ third one-point victory in six days, man Derrick Jackson alive. prompts GW Coach Bob Talent analysis; connected on an 18 foot Coming down the “God is smiling on them this year.” shot with two seconds court, Art White sank After GW’s Les Anderson hits a 12 remaining. The basket gave two of his team-high foot fadeaway jump shot in the clos- the Hoyas an improbable 28 points to narrow ing seconds, the Hoyas call a timeout. 62-61 win over West Virginia at the score to 81-80 Steve Martin then inbounds the ball to the Morgantown Coliseum with 0:17 left. Esherick, standing on just the other side in front of 14,00 hostile Maravich of the half court stripe. Closely guarded Mountaineers. The win in was quickly by Anderson, Esherick pivots to his right the ECAC-South final en- and launches a shot which draws nothing MEDIA titled the Hoyas to their first but net. NCAA Tournament appear- “The shot was designed for Derrick ance since 1943. Jackson. He’s our number one clutch Derrick Jackson shooter,” said Esherick.