1926–27 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1926–27 record | 5–4 |
| Head coach | John O'Reilly (11th year) |
| Captain | Walter Hickey (1st year) |
| Home arena | Ryan Gymnasium |
The 1926–27 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1926-27 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached it in his 11th and last 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 the season with a record of 5-4.
During the mid-1920s, the Georgetown men's basketball program was struggling to survive. 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 season and this season – often limited 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 1926-27 team played only nine games; its only road game was a visit to Annapolis to play Navy and its planned three-game road trip to New York City at the end of the season was cancelled. It had a winning season in its limited schedule, opening 4-0, then losing four straight, and winning its final game to finish at 5-4.
Junior forward Bob Nork had emerged as a top scorer previous season, and he starred again this year. He played in all nine games, playing a major role in almost all of them, and scored 85 points – almost twice as many as the team's second-leading scorer – averaging 9.4 points per game.
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