1920–21 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1920–21 record | 10–4 |
| Head coach | John O'Reilly (7th season) |
| Captain | Jack Flavin (1st year) |
| Home arena | Ryan Gymnasium |
The 1920–21 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1920-21 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached the team in his seventh 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 10-4.
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 Georgetown averaged no more than three road games a year from the 1918-19 season thrtough the 1926-27 season in order to keep travel to a minimum. The 1920-21 team's only road trip outside of Washington was to play schools in Pennsylvania at the end of the season.
The Hoyas' home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium reached 34 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. Highlights of the home season at Ryan included Georgetown's upsets of Georgia Tech and North Carolina, two of the most highly regarded teams in the United States at the time. Georgetown also defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, giving the Hoyas a 14-game winning streak against George Washington – 10 of the wins at Ryan Gymnasium – dating back to 1915.
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