A year ago, the Georgetown Hoyas pulled off a stunning run to win the Big East Tournament (as an 8-seed) and reach the NCAA Tournament. It was one of the best stories of the 2020-2021 college basketball season.
The 2021-22 season did *not* feature the same magic for Georgetown. It didn’t even feature a single win in Big East play.
After going 6-24 on the season and 0-19 in Big East play, Georgetown faced Seton Hall — a team that entered Wednesday on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble — in the Big East Tournament, and the Hoyas actually looked like they may come away with a shocking victory.
Georgetown led by four points with under five minutes remaining, but Seton Hall took the lead 55-53 on this Jamir Harris three-pointer with 40.3 seconds remaining:
ICE IN HIS VEINS! @Jtodaizzo
Now @SetonHallMBB takes the lead! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/xoq8AYgUiG
— FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) March 10, 2022
The Hoyas still had a chance to tie or take the lead in the final seconds. But trailing 55-53, Georgetown had this dreadful, comical possession to turn the ball over with six seconds remaining:
Oh no, Georgetown. 🏀 pic.twitter.com/eyHCuOoC1J
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) March 10, 2022
Seton Hall held on to win 57-53 (a loss likely may have sent them to the wrong side of the bubble).
So, Georgetown finishes the season 6-25, and 0-20 in Big East play (if we include the conference tournament). This comes after head coach and NBA legend Patrick Ewing released a statement amid rumors about his coaching future on March 4 (after the Georgetown AD released a statement supporting Ewing).
Also somebody has also written *a lot* of words on Wikipedia about the Georgetown season. So that’s something.
https://twitter.com/morrisoncrying/status/1501708319475617792
this person has made tens of thousands of Wikipedia edits and almost all of them are about shipwrecks or the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) March 10, 2022
Here’s a look at how the college basketball world reacted to Georgetown’s loss:
Georgetown in the 2021-22 season:
▫️ 0-19 in conference play in the regular season
▫️ 21-game losing streak, the worst in school history
▫️ 1st-round exit from the 2022 BIG EAST TournamentA year ago, the Hoyas won the 2021 BIG EAST Tournament. pic.twitter.com/LPoqAlR0iY
— CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 10, 2022
Georgetown ends the season on a 21-game losing streak. No Big East tournament magic this year for the Hoyas.
— Jeff Borzello (@jeffborzello) March 10, 2022
What Georgetown just pulled off here — a winless power conference season incl. conf tourney — is pretty rare.
I count only 8 instances in the last 20 yrs:
ACC: 2
SEC: 1
B12: 3
B1G: 0
BE: 1 (Gtown)
P12: 1Name 'em.
— Rush the Court (@rushthecourt) March 10, 2022
that was the most georgetown sequence of events i’ve ever seen
— Steph Sheehan (@Steph_Sheehan) March 10, 2022
Oh my god Georgetown is the worst basketball team I've ever seen
— No Escalators (@NoEscalators) March 10, 2022
If you are wondering how in the world Georgetown went winless in the Big East I hope you watched that last possession
— Tim Krueger (@tkbrackets) March 10, 2022
Where would Georgetown have finished in the Patriot League this season?
— Mid-Major Madness (@mid_madness) March 10, 2022
