"2000–01 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team The 2000–01 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 2000–2001 NCAA Division I basketball season. The Hoyas were coached by Craig Esherick and played most of their home games at the MCI Center in Washington, DC, although they played some home games early in the season at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus. The Hoyas were members of the West Division of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 25-8, 10-6 in Big East play. Their record earned them a bye in the first round of the 2001 Big East"
"Big East effective in 2013 to join the ACC, forcing the split of ""Catholic Seven"" and the football-playing schools. This led to the creation of the reformed Big East Conference and the American Athletic Conference. However, Georgetown and Syracuse have continued to play each other in all but one of the years following their exit from the conference. Villanova University As a fellow Catholic institution and conference foe, Villanova has been a natural rival for the Hoyas for many years. The two schools are arguably the most successful programs among the group of teams that currently make up the Big"
"not offer prize money to participants, began in 1976. Washington, D.C. is also home to six NCAA Division I teams. The Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team is the most notable team in the area after winning seven Big East tournament championships and ten Big East regular season championships. They won the NCAA Final Four in 1984 after appearing in it five times. Their home games are also played at the Verizon Center. From 2008 to 2012, Washington, D.C. hosted the annual Military Bowl, a post-season NCAA college football bowl game, at the RFK Stadium. The ""Washington Post"" is an American"
"long-standing Big East Conference rivals Georgetown Hoyas, as a member of the Big East. The Orange were defeated 57-46, ending the Orange's home win-streak at 38 games. Prior to the Georgetown Hoyas attendance record, Syracuse University held the previous attendance record also. On February 27, 2010, an announced attendance of 34,616 came to see the Orange beat the Villanova Wildcats 95-77. University officials briefly considered moving the basketball court to the middle of the football field for the 2014 regular season game with Duke- a move that could have pushed the attendance over 50,000. It was decided, to appease season"
"while Hayes had 11 points and nine rebounds. The Hoyas evened their record at 3–3. A driving force in the success of the original Big East Conference of 1979–2013 during its 34 seasons of play was Georgetown′s rivalry with Syracuse, but play between the teams had come to an end after the conclusion of the 2012-13 season when the conference broke up during the summer of 2013. The original conference survived as the American Athletic Conference (marketed as ""the American""), but Georgetown and Syracuse left it, the Hoyas to become a charter member of the new Big East Conference and"
"first after Georgetown and six other schools left the original Big East Conference and joined Butler, Creighton, and Xavier in forming the new Big East Conference – part of a major conference realignment in which several other teams moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference from the old Big East and the old Big East became the American Athletic Conference. Like the previous year, the 2013–14 season started abroad, with the Hoyas playing in the Armed Forces Classic at Camp Humphreys near Pyeongtaek, South Korea. After a 17–13 regular-season record followed by an upset in the first round of the Big"
"known as the America Trophy. After the team's 2013 national championship, they were invited to participate in the 2014 World University Match Racing Championships in Trentino, Italy, on Lago di Ledro, which they won 7–1, besting nineteen teams from fourteen countries. The Hoyas won the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy to the best overall collegiate team in 2006. The men's soccer team was organized in 1952, and have made four NCAA Tournament appearances, in 1994, 1997, 2010, and 2012. They play in the Big East Conference, and have made it to the Big East Tournament 19 times, and advanced to the"
"its four newest members (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah) are located in the inland West, and the original Big East kept its name even after adding schools (either in all sports or for football only) located in areas traditionally considered to be in the Midwest (Cincinnati, DePaul, Marquette, Notre Dame), Upper South (Louisville, Memphis) and Southwest (Houston, SMU). The non-football conference that assumed the Big East name when the original Big East split in 2013 is another example of this phenomenon, as half of its 10 inaugural schools (Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Marquette, Xavier) are traditionally regarded as being Midwestern. The"
"five straight to enter the Big East season with a record of 8–4. The Hoyas opened the Big East season with a loss at Marquette, in which Rodney Pryor finished with 23 points, Jesse Govan scored 11, and Marcus Derrickson came off the bench for 11. They then came home to host their third ranked opponent of the year, No. 17 Xavier, at the Verizon Center on New Year's Eve 2016. Xavier was one of four Big East teams ranked in the Top 17 at the time. Peak scored 16 points in the first half, and the underdog Hoyas led"
"annually scheduled games, and they only intensified when both programs became founding members of the Big East Conference in 1979. The rivalry was brought to national attention during the 1984-85 NCAA Division I men's basketball season when both programs were ranked No. 1 and No. 2 throughout the season and met on a total of four occasions, including the famous ""Sweater Game"" at Madison Square Garden, the 1985 Big East Championship, and the 1985 Final Four. The Hoyas won 3 of the 4 matchups that year. The rivalry gained renewed interest when both schools remained in the new Big East"
"the original Big East Conference in 1979 and had met each season throughout that conference's 34-year history, but the rivalry had lapsed when Georgetown left the conference in the summer of 2013 to join the new Big East Conference while Connecticut remained behind in the old conference, renamed the American Athletic Conference and marketed as ""the American;"" the two-season home-and-home series revived play between the teams after a two-season absence. Connecticut had won the previous year, but this time the Hoyas overcame a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the Huskies and improve their all-time record against Connecticut to 36–30. L."
"nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. William Shea, who played in the 1920s, was the New York attorney who brought the New York Mets to the city. Shea Stadium, now demolished and replaced on-site by the Mets' current home of Citi Field, was named in his honor. Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball The Georgetown University men's basketball team represents Georgetown University in NCAA Division I and the Big East Conference. Like all athletic programs at the school, they are known as the Hoyas. Georgetown has competed in men's intercollegiate basketball team since 1907. The current head coach of the"
"named Big East conference coach of the year that season. His success at Georgetown is more remarkable as the program at that time period was the lowest funded team in the BIG EAST conference and one of the lowest funded in the nation. His 1994 team recorded the school's first ever berth in the NCAA tournament, including the school's first ever Big East regular season championship. He was named Big East coach of the year after leading the Hoyas to an 18–4 record. He previously served as an assistant coach at George Washington University. He is a 1980 graduate of"
"Mason University, Harvard University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU), Princeton University, Sacred Heart University, and Saint Francis University (in Pennsylvania; not to be confused with St. Francis College in Brooklyn, which like the Pennsylvania school is an all-sports member of the Northeast Conference). The top four teams compete for the EIVA championship. The winner represents the conference in the NCAA Div. I/II national championships. Previously, from 2005-2006 to 2010-2011, the conference was divided into two divisions. The higher division was named the Tait Division and the lower division was named the"
"in the tournament. In the tournament, the Hoyas knocked off Mid-American Conference regular season Champions, West Virginia. All-Tournament Team: 2018 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament The 2018 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament, was the sixth men's soccer tournament of the new Big East Conference, formed in July 2013 after the original Big East Conference split into two leagues along football lines. Including the history of the original conference, it was the 23rd edition of the Big East tournament. Georgetown repeated as champions, to earn their second-ever Big East soccer title, and their eighth overall NCAA Tournament berth. The Hoyas"
"in 1998, defeating UMBC, 9–8. The only time they ever advanced past the quarterfinals of the tournament came in 1999 as they defeated Notre Dame and Duke before losing to Syracuse in the semifinals. From 1997–2007, they made the tournament every season and from 2002–2007, they made the quarterfinals every season. They failed to return to the tournament until the Hoyas won the Big East Tournament in 2018. Georgetown Hoyas men's lacrosse The Georgetown Hoyas men's lacrosse team represents Georgetown University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college lacrosse. The coach is currently Kevin Warne, who is in"
"as head coach in the school's history. Jesse Govan shot 10-for-15 from the field and 10-for-10 from the free-throw line to finish with 30 points, and Jamorko Pickett, the only other Hoya to score in double figures, added 10 points. The Hoyas finished in eighth place in the Big East with a conference record of 5–13, the first time they had finished with a losing conference record for three consecutive seasons since 1997–1998, 1998–1999, and 1999–2000. They completed the regular season with an overall record of 15–14. With a No. 8 seed in the 2018 Big East Tournament at Madison"
"members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. The conference previously went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, and Pacific-10. The Pac-12 moniker was adopted in 2011 with the addition of Colorado and Utah. Nicknamed the ""Conference of Champions"", the Pac-12 has won more NCAA national championships in team sports than any other conference in history. The top three schools with the most NCAA team championships are members of the Pac-12: Stanford, UCLA, and USC, in that order. Washington's national title in women's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12"
"Hill College; Mobile, Alabama Nu - University of San Francisco; San Francisco, California Omicron - University of San Diego; San Diego, California Pi - Marquette University; Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sigma - St. Mary's University of Minnesota; Winona, Minnesota Tau - Northern Kentucky University; Highland Heights, Kentucky Upsilon - Saint Joseph's University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phi - Merrimack College; North Andover, Massachusetts Chi - St. Cloud State University; St. Cloud, Minnesota Alpha Beta - Philadelphia University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Alpha Gamma - Chestnut Hill College; Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania Alpha Zeta - York College; York, Pennsylvania Alpha Theta - University of Texas at Austin; Austin,"
"Fiesta Bowl in 2011. The Big East's name changed in 2013 to the American Athletic Conference as a result of the non-FBS split that took place as part of the conference's three-way realignment between 2010–2013. Three members moved to the ACC as full members, Notre Dame went the ACC as a partial and West Virginia to the Big 12. With the seven non-FBS basketball schools buying the Big East conference name for their own newly formed conference. Three teams departing to the ACC, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and Notre Dame, left the Big East with losing records against the Huskies in football."
"Although Georgetown was a member of the Big East Conference, it was not the storied conference the Hoyas had joined as a charter member in 1979. The original Big East Conference still existed, but under a new name, as the American Athletic Conference – marketed as ""the American"" – and Georgetown this season was a charter member of an entirely new conference also named the Big East. Both the new Big East and the American claimed the history and heritage of the original Big East as their own, and the new Big East had many aspects that were reminiscent of"
"heritage of the original Big East as part of their own, but in the new Big East the Hoyas faced a future in an unproven conference and without their traditional rival Syracuse on their schedule. Source Georgetown received two first-place votes in the Week 18 Associated Press Poll of March 4, 2013. !colspan=9 style=""background:#002147; color:#8D817B;""| Regular season !colspan=9 style=""background:#002147; color:#8D817B;""| Big East Tournament !colspan=9 style=""background:#002147; color:#8D817B;""| NCAA Tournament NOTES: 2012–13 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team The 2012–13 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 2012–13 college basketball season. They were led by John Thompson III and played"
"the entire balance of over $110 million left in the NCAA National Tournament prize pool accumulated by the Big East in prior years. The FBS schools retained the charter of the original 1979–2012 Big East Conference, starting the 2013 academic year under the new name of American Athletic Conference. The Big East was founded in 1979 by seven universities in the Northeastern United States—Boston College (BC), Connecticut (UConn), Georgetown, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, and Syracuse. The seven founders consisted of five Catholic institutions, one private but secular university (Syracuse) and one public school (UConn). More significantly, only two of"
"University; Miami Shores, Florida Alpha Delta - Cabrini College; Radnor, Pennsylvania Alpha Epsilon - LaGrange College; LaGrange, Georgia Alpha Eta - McKendree University; Lebanon, Illinois Alpha Iota - Felician College; Lodi, New Jersey Alpha Kappa - Marian University; Indianapolis, Indiana Alpha Lambda - Clarkson University; Potsdam, New York Alpha - Loyola University Chicago; Chicago, Illinois Gamma - DePaul University; Chicago, Illinois Delta - St. Mary's College; Moraga, California Epsilon - Loyola University New Orleans; New Orleans, Louisiana Theta - St. Norbert College; De Pere, Wisconsin Eta - Quincy University; Quincy, Illinois Iota - Regis College; Denver, Colorado Mu - Spring"
"The latest streak began in 1983-84. <nowiki>*</nowiki> record stands as of December 18, 2018 and does not re􏰀flect wins vacated by the NCAA from 2004-07 and 2010-12. The original Big East was founded by seven charter schools in 1979 (Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, Syracuse, Seton Hall, Connecticut, and Boston College). Villanova joined the following year, followed by Pittsburgh in 1982. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, and Syracuse were the primary powers in the conference with UConn joining them in the 1990s. In less than a decade since its inception, the Big East became the most"
"used by the institutions when they were Big West members. One school has changed its name (Southwestern Louisiana, now branded athletically as Louisiana and also known as Louisiana–Lafayette) and one its nickname (Arkansas State, from Indians to Red Wolves). Notes The Big West Conference currently sponsors 18 NCAA sports, with men's volleyball the newest addition for the 2017–18 school year. In baseball, Cal State Fullerton has won four College World Series titles with national championships in 1979, 1984, 1995, and 2004. In addition, Long Beach State and UC Irvine have made multiple appearances in the College World Series. Fullerton also"
"five NPHC Organizations are Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Phi Alpha, Phi Beta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta, and Iota Phi Theta Eastern Washington University offers club, intramural, and varsity sports. Its twelve varsity men's and women's sports teams compete in the Big Sky Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as the Eastern Washington Eagles. The most-prominent athletics facilities on campus are Roos Field, Reese Court and the Jim Thorpe Fieldhouse. EWU has three national championships, including football (2010 – NCAA Div. I FCS), wrestling (1977 – NAIA) and men's cross country (1982 – NCAA Div. II). The Seattle"
"College (NY), Saint Francis College (PA), Siena College (left in 1984), Towson State University (left in 1982), the University of Baltimore (left in 1983) and Wagner College. The conference's name was changed to its present form on August 1, 1988. Other names considered were Big North, Great North, North Shore, Northern, Northeastern, Eastern and Eastern Private Intercollegiate. The Northeast Conference has expanded seven times since 1981. The expansions and additions from the original charter members were in 1985 (Monmouth University, which left in 2013), 1989 (Mount St. Mary's University), 1992 (Rider University, which left in 1997), 1997 (Central Connecticut State"
"in Division I football and has only temporary bleachers as a part of the current set-up. The construction plans remain on hold indefinitely until the administration can properly fund the completion of the project. The Hoyas have a new cross-town rivalry with Howard University (which also plays at the FCS level, but awards football scholarships), for a championship known as the DC Cup (awarded by the mayor of Washington). Three DC Cups have been held (2008, 2009 and 2011). The series has Georgetown leading 2–1–0 following their 2011 victory. The series is slated to resume in 2019. The Hoyas have"
"has disputed the Greek and Latin origin, suggesting the classical words were retroactively applied to a nonsensical cheer. After World War I, the term ""Hoya"" was increasingly used on campus, including for the newspaper and the school mascot. In 1920, students began publishing the campus's first sports newspaper under the name ""The Hoya"", after successfully petitioning the Dean of the College to use it instead of the proposed name, ""The Hilltopper"". ""Hilltoppers"" was also a name sometimes used for the sports teams. By the fall of 1928, the newspaper had taken to referring to the sports teams as the Hoyas."
"saying, ""It's a great schedule, a great schedule. All the people worried about the schedule are all you guys."" The Hoyas had a week off before facing Syracuse, Georgetown's archrival in the original Big East, and during that week the letter ""S"" was ""prohibited"" on the Georgetown campus, being covered over or X-ed out everywhere it appeared on a sign. The game was Georgetown's only real challenge of the nonconference schedule, and it pitted Patrick Ewing against Jim Boeheim – Syracuse's head coach back in Ewing's playing days at Georgetown – as head coaches for the first time, prompting nostalgia"
"us to have success against the toughest basketball conference in the country."" On December 30, 2015, the Hoyas opened the Big East season – one of four teams to play on the conference′s opening day – by visiting DePaul, and they defeated the Blue Demons for the 17th time in their past 18 meetings, with D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera and Isaac Copeland scoring 15 points each and L. J. Peak adding 14. A home win against Marquette followed in the first game of 2016, Marcus Derrickson scoring 16 points against the Golden Eagles and Smith-Rivera contributing 15 points and six assists, while"
"Georgetown ranked second in the nation by the average number of graduates serving in the U.S. Congress. Georgetown is also a top feeder school for careers in finance and investment banking on Wall Street. Georgetown is home to the country's largest student-run business, largest student-run financial institution, and oldest continuously running student theatre troupe. The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the Hoyas and include a men's basketball team that has won a record-tying seven Big East championships, appeared in five Final Fours, and won a national championship in 1984. The university also has a co-ed sailing team that holds thirteen"