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1930–31 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

1930–31 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Georgetown Hoyas logo.svg
Conference Independent
1930–31 record 5–16
Head coach John Colrick (1st season)
Captain Walter Morris (1st year)
Home arena Tech Gymnasium
Seasons
← 1929–30
1931–32 →

The 1930–31 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1930-31 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John Colrick coached it in his first and only season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Tech Gymnasium on the campus of McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., except for one home game it played at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus. It finished with a record of 5-16.

After the Hoyas' disappointing 13-12 record the previous season, Georgetown had hired Colrick from his alma mater, Notre Dame, to serve as a football assistant and, following that, to take over as the Hoyas' head basketball coach. At Notre Dame, he had assisted head coach George Keogan; employing an up-tempo offense known as the "Western-style" offense, Keogan never had a losing season in his 20 years as Notre Dame's head coach between 1923 and 1943. Georgetown's athletics department hoped that Colrick would bring a successful version of the "Western-style" offense to Georgetown, but the team instead performed very poorly, finishing with a record of 5-16. Its .238 winning percentage was the worst in Georgetown men's basketball history until the 1971-72 team finished with a 3-23 record and .115 winning percentage.

Colrick left Georgetown shortly after the end of the season and spent a single season coaching basketball at Seton Hall the following year. His career after that is obscure.

Georgetown deemphasized sports during the 1930s, and this season began a period of mediocrity in Georgetown basketball that stretched throughout the decade. From the beginning of this season through the end of the 1939-1940 season, Georgetown would have a combined record of 32 games under .500, with only three winning seasons.


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