1945–46 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1945–46 record | 11–9 |
| Head coach | Ken Engles (1st year) |
| Home arena | Brookland Gymnasium |
The 1945–46 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1945-46 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Ken Engles coached it in his only season as head coach. It played its home games on the campus of The Catholic University of America at Brookland Gymnasium in Washington, D.C., the only Georgetown team to play home games there with the exception of the 1946-47 team, which played four games there the following season.
Georgetown had made its only post-season tournament appearance thus far in the 1942-43 season, when it advanced to the final of the 1943 NCAA Tournament. However, the school had suspended all of its athletic programs later in 1943 for the duration of World War II, prompting head coach Elmer Ripley to leave to coach at Columbia and ending the collegiate careers of many of its players, while other Georgetown players who retained eligibility transferred to other schools to continue their collegiate basketball careers or entered military service, planning to return to Georgetown and resume college basketball there after the war.
Georgetown had no basketball program during the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons. After World War II ended in August 1945, the school resumed athletic competition and began to put together a varsity men's basketball team for the 1945-46 season. Ripley had left Columbia after coaching there for two years but had committed to coach Notre Dame in 1945-46, and those Georgetown players from the 1942-43 team retaining eligibility to play had either transferred elsewhere or had not yet returned to Georgetown from military service.
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