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The Hoyas won the 1985 Big East men's basketball tournament, their second straight Big East tournament championship and the fourth in Georgetown men's basketball history, defeating Connecticut in the quarterfinal, No. 13 Syracuse in the semifinal, and No. 2 St. John ' s in the final. Bill Martin averaged 17 points and seven rebounds per game ...
Seeded No. 1 in the West Region of the 1984 NCAA tournament – the sixth of 14 consecutive Georgetown NCAA tournament appearances – the Hoyas received a first-round bye. They had a scare in the second round, narrowly missing being upset in a pre- shot-clock -era slowdown game against a Southern Methodist team led by center Jon Koncak .
It was the last amateur-level U.S. team to win an Olympic gold medal in men's basketball. The team was considered to be one of the strongest in the U.S.A.'s history at that time, as it featured four of the five 1984 consensus first team All-Americans, in Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Wayman Tisdale, and Sam Perkins. [1]
The 2006–07 team, which marked the 100th anniversary of the program, is the most recent to advance to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. This is a list of the seasons completed by the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, [1] the most successful and well-known sports program at Georgetown University.
Twelve men's teams competed in basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1] Group A. Australia ... Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941 – August 30, 2020) was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship ...
Craig Esherick coached the Georgetown Hoyas basketball squad from January 1999 to March 2004. Esherick was a four-year player for the men's basketball team from 1974 to 1978 and then the lead assistant coach under John Thompson Jr. from 1981 to 1999.
In the 1984 Final Four, Graham scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and led the Hoyas to a victory over the Houston Cougars for the national championship. In the championship game, Graham scored 14 points on 7–9 shooting and was one of two Georgetown players to be named to the All-Final Four team along with Most Outstanding Player Patrick ...