1919–20 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1919–20 record | 13–1 |
| Head coach | John O'Reilly (6th season) |
| Captain | Bill Dudack (1st year) |
| Home arena | Ryan Gymnasium |
The 1919–20 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1919-20 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached the team in his sixth season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C. and finished the season with a record of 13-1.
On-campus Ryan Gymnasium, where the Hoyas had played their home games since the 1914-15 season, had no seating, accommodating fans on a standing-room only-basis on an indoor track above the court. This precluded the accommodation of significant crowds, providing the self-sustaining Basketball Association with little revenue with which to fund the team's travel expenses and averaged no more than three road games a year from the 1918-19 season through the 1926-27 season in order to keep travel to a minimum. The 1919-20 team's only road trip outside of Washington was to New York City and Connecticut at the end of the season.
The Hoyas' home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium reached 25 games at the end of this season, dating back to a victory against Bucknell on the last day of the 1916-17 season; it would reach 52 before finally coming to an end during the 1923-24 season. A highlight of the home season at Ryan was the Hoyas' upset of North Carolina, considered one of the top teams in the United States at the time. Georgetown also defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice again this season, giving the Hoyas a 12-game winning streak against George Washington – ten of the wins at Ryan Gymnasium – dating back to 1915.
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