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Various news items posted during May 2019.
 
 

Patrick Ewing: Ahead To 2019-20

5/31/19
 
 

Happy 40th Anniversary, Big East

5/29/19
 
 

Big 10 Challenge Nets Penn State

5/28/19

It was a perfect scenario: the 2019-20 Michigan State Spartans returning to the same Capital One Arena where it won the NCAA Eastern Regional, scheduled against the Big East's up and coming program.

Instead, the Spartans and Seton Hall will be the marquee matchup in the 2019 Big East-Big Ten Gavitt Games announced Monday, with Georgetown instead hosting Pennsylvania State, a 14-18 finisher from last season.

The Nittany Lions return three starters from a team which finished tied at 10th in the Big Ten with last year's Gavitt Games opponent, Illinois. While Georgetown's win at Illinois was an early highlight of the 2018-19 season, the Illini finished 12-21.

The lineup is as follows, with dates TBA:

The two schools have met 42 times since the 1908-09 season, with Penn State owning a 22-20 advantage desite the Hoyas sweeping the Nittany Lions during the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons. This was the only series the schools have played since 1977.

 

2019-20 Jerseys: Time For A Change?

5/28/19

There was a time when jerseys were simple--blue and gray, for example. Not in 2018-19, where the Hoyas wore seven different jerseys with three different sets of styles and three different fonts. Is this the year that Georgetown settles on a consistent look?

Georgetown has never had a traditional apparel look such as Indiana or UCLA. From 1978 to 2015, Georgetown has undergone 18 different uniform changes, or nearly one every two seasons. (On four different occasions, jerseys were actually changed in mid-season.) But Nike has not debuted a new Georgetown apparel set since 2015, adding one-off styles under the guise of "throwbacks" that had very little in common with the original look.

By season's end, Georgetown was left with two gray jerseys that didn't match, a blue, a white, a black, an aquamarine, and a teal jersey. The irony in this merchandising mess was that the traditional colors proved the most successful on the court:



If there was time for a clean break, now is it. The jerseys of the Patrick Ewing era still look like the JTIII era, and together this jersey style is part of the worst four year stretch in nearly half a century for Georgetown basketball (63-65). Claims that "tidal blue" and aquamarine are part of the school's legacy fell flat, and the random rotation of colors and styles was as inconsistent as the game to game finishes.

With that in mind, three suggestions:

1. The Blue and The Gray
The uniform set should reflect that across all Georgetown sports: gray at home, blue on the road.


2. One-Off? But Just Once
If there is an undying need for a one-off style, wear it once and then retire it, as it did with past styles such as the "G" logo in 2013 or the camouflage jerseys worn on a pair of visits to military bases in 2012 and 2013. A white or a black jersey is neither necessary nor particularly distinctive to Georgetown.
3. Ditch the Teal
Call them aquamarine, call them tidal blue, but the Men of Teal doesn't fit the Georgetown tradition.

The Patrick Ewing era enters a new decade in 2020. It's time to create some new memories.

 

In His Own Words:
John Thompson To Write Autobiography

5/21/19

Former coach John Thompson will write an autobiography prior to his 80th birthday, reports the Washington Post.

Thompson, who has long maintained privacy on his life outside the basketball court, told the Post it was an opportunity for his grandchildren to learn his life story from a first person account.

In the early 1990's, Thompson turned down an opportunity by the late Ralph Wiley to author a book; in 2019, ESPN writer Jesse Washington is working with Thompson on the memoir, scheduled to be published in 2021.

"They can put a statue here of me and the building and all that crap," Thompson said. "People do and say very nice things, which they tend to do when you get older, which I'm flattered by. But I know, at times, I was an #$%^%$, too."

"In the middle of the night, Thompson often turns the most introspective," writes columnist Jerry Brewer. "When it happens, he grabs his phone, turns on the recorder and starts talking. Washington wakes up to see both long texts and recordings featuring that iconic voice."

"I primarily wanted to say, I'm 77 years old," Thompson said. "There are a lot of things that have been written or said about me that I would like to give my explanation of. It's not a question of I'm just trying to butcher somebody, or love them. I just want to say myself what I think I meant to do."

 

NCAA Academic Progress Rate Scores

5/9/19

After finishing last in the Big East in 2017 as a result of transfers and early entries, men's basketball moved up the list in its Academic Progress Rate score, which finished eighth in the Big East for this year's NCAA report.

The Academic Progress Rate, or APR, is a four year weighted average of each men's and women's sports team at NCAA member schools. A 1,000 score connotes a 100% graduation rate. The rate consists of one point for each eligible student-athlete and one point for each graduated student-athlete, an index that penalize schools with students that either are ineligible, or who leave school early.

Each player on a given roster earns a maximum of two points per term, one for being academically eligible and one for staying with the institution. A team's APR is the total points of a team's roster at a given time divided by the total points.

The APR for Georgetown men's basketball over the last ten years is as follows:

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Villanova 985 980 974 978 978 983 988 994 1000 1000 1000
Seton Hall 918 936 935 951 963 979 995 1000 1000 990 990
Butler 964 1000 1000 1000 1000 985 974 974 968 984 984
Providence 939 935 925 925 915 947 957 979 984 979 984
Creighton 961 956 960 975 971 972 991 986 981 971 971
Xavier 976 985 990 965 965 958 949 964 969 964 967
DePaul 940 987 1000 984 984 960 952 943 943 961 959
Georgetown 942 937 937 958 966 973 950 952 957 950 957
Marquette 970 975 980 970 960 959 949 962 966 950 955
St. John's 959 961 968 959 941 942 953 952 974 964 947
 

The Georgetown results among all sports are below (note that men's rowing and sailing are not included in that they are not recognized NCAA sports.) 

 
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Baseball 978 992 996 985 996 996 996 1000 996 992 988
Basketball (Men's) 942 937 937 958 966 973 950 952 957 950 957
Basketball (Women's) 975 982 983 1000 991 1000 995 981 986 986 990
Cross Country (Men's) 1000 1000 1000 1000 995 991 992 989 992 1000 996
Cross Country (Women's) 986 988 992 1000 1000 1000 1000 997 996 996 993
Field Hockey 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Football 966 968 979 986 977 980 988 991 991 991 987
Golf (Men's) 1000 993 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Golf (Women's) 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 991 1000 1000 1000 1000
Lacrosse (Men's) 982 987 991 967 990 984 982 988 984 984 992
Lacrosse (Women's) 989 994 996 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Rowing (Women's) 1000 980 968 1000 990 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Soccer (Men's) 991 977 966 988 971 983 990 993 993 996 1000
Soccer (Women's) 991 992 992 1000 997 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 994
Softball 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Swimming (Men's) 1000 1000 1000 [x] 1000 [x] [x] 1000 1000 1000 1000
Swimming (Women's) 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Tennis (Men's) 957 1000 1000 [x] 1000 [x] [x] 1000 1000 1000 1000
Tennis (Women's) 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 983 982 1000 1000 1000
Track (Men's Indoor) 1000 1000 1000 1000 996 992 992 989 992 1000 1000
Track (Women's Indoor) 989 992 997 1000 1000 1000 1000 984 994 997 995
Track (Men's Outdoor) 1000 1000 1000 1000 996 992 992 989 992 1000 996
Track (Women's Outdoor) 989 992 994 1000 1000 997 997 984 994 997 993
Volleyball 986 993 993 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
 [x]: Did not report; fewer than three student athletes in recruiting class.
 
 

And Then There Were Seven: Chuma Azinge

5/5/19
 

New names continue to arrive online for the 2019-20 Georgetown roster, this time in 6-3 guard Chuma Azinge.

Azinge, a 6-3 guard from San Marino, CA who played a fifth year at Choate Rosemary Hall (CT), was an honorable mention selection in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC), which suggests that Azinge will be a walk on. Prior to Choate, Azinge was a second team all-city selection for San Marino, averaging 17 points per game as a senior in 2018.

Azinge's commitment would mark the seventh addition for the Hoyas next season, the most since the 1989-90 season.

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