1923–24 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1923–24 record | 6–3 |
| Head coach | John O'Reilly (8th season) |
| Captain | George Carney (1st year) |
| Home arena | Ryan Gymnasium |
The 1923–24 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1923-24 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached it in his eighth season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C. It finished with a record of 6-3.
O'Reilly, who had coached Georgetown for seven seasons from 1914-15 to 1920-21 with an overall record of 65-30 during those years, had missed the last two seasons due to illness. He returned this season for an eighth year coaching the team, which finished with a record of 6-3. O'Reilly would go on to coach another three seasons at Georgetown before retiring after the completion of the 1926-27 season.
During this era, faculty members opposed players missing classes for road games. Furthermore, 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 limiting Georgetown to a very limited road schedule between the 1918-19 and 1926-27 seasons – often only to an annual trip to Annapolis, Maryland, to play at Navy and sometimes a single trip to New York or Pennsylvania to play schools there – averaging no more than three road games a year in order to keep travel expenses and missed classes to a minimum. The 1923-24 squad did not even make a New York or Pennsylvania trip; other than a journey across town to play at George Washington, it traveled only to Annapolis to play Navy during the season. One of its scheduled games was cancelled, and it played only nine games.
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