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1953–54 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

1953–54 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Georgetown Hoyas logo.svg
Conference Independent
1953–54 record 11–18
Head coach Harry "Buddy" Jeannette (2nd season)
Assistant coach Hugh Beins (1st season)
Captain Joe Carroll (1st year)
Captain Lou Gigante (1st year)
Home arena McDonough Gymnasium
Seasons
← 1952–53
1954–55 →
1953–54 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#3 Holy Cross       26 2   .929
#17 Seattle       26 2   .929
#5 Duquesne       26 3   .897
#6 Notre Dame       22 3   .880
#2 La Salle       26 4   .867
Dayton       25 7   .781
Louisville       22 7   .759
#9 Penn State       18 6   .750
Oklahoma City       18 7   .720
Navy       18 8   .692
Army       15 7   .682
Villanova       20 11   .645
Lafayette       17 10   .630
Saint Joseph's       14 9   .609
Xavier       18 12   .600
#7 Bradley       19 13   .594
John Carroll       15 11   .577
Seton Hall       13 10   .565
Temple       15 12   .556
Muhlenberg       12 10   .545
Washington University       12 10   .545
Syracuse       10 9   .526
Cincinnati       11 10   .524
DePaul       11 10   .524
Iona       11 10   .524
Butler       13 12   .520
Boston College       11 11   .500
Loyola Marymount       14 16   .467
Rutgers       11 13   .458
Creighton       14 17   .452
Gonzaga       12 15   .444
Valparaiso       10 13   .435
Marquette       11 15   .423
Lehigh       8 12   .400
Pittsburgh       9 14   .391
Georgetown       11 18   .379
Siena       7 14   .333
Portland       9 19   .321
Loyola (IL)       7 15   .318
Drake       7 16   .304
Colgate       5 12   .294
Bucknell       4 16   .200
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1953–54 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1953-54 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Harry "Buddy" Jeannette coached them in his second season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.. It finished the season with a record of 11-18 and had no postseason play.

Sophomore forward Warren Buehler joined the varsity team as a starter after a year on the freshman team, replacing star Bill Bolger, who had graduated after the previous season. Destined to become the top Georgetown scorer of the 1950s, Buehler got off to a quick start, ending the season as the team's top scorer for the first of two consecutive seasons. Playing in 28 of the season's 29 games, he scored in double figures 26 times, including 29 points each against Pittsburgh and Duquesne, 30 against Detroit, and a career-high 36 points against Virginia – in a game which Georgetown nonetheless lost when Virginia's Buzzy Wilkinson scored 45 points against the Hoyas. By the end of the year, Buehler had scored a Georgetown-record 511 points and averaged 18.2 points per game, second in school history.

Senior guard and team co-captain Lou Gigante had starred for the team during the two previous seasons, and began another strong season this year, averaging in double figures. During the game against New York University at Madison Square Garden in New York City on January 12, 1954, however, he broke his foot, ending his season and collegiate career. He had averaged 9.2 points per game during his three varsity seasons.


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