1958–59 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1958–59 record | 8–15 |
| Head coach | Tom Nolan (3rd season) |
| Assistant coach | Tommy O'Keefe (3rd season) |
| Captain | Jim Oravec (1st year) |
| Home arena | McDonough Gymnasium |
The 1958–59 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1958-59 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Tom Nolan coached them in his third 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 with a record of 8-15 and had no post-season play.
The 1958-59 team was undersized, averaging 6-feet-1 (185 cm) in height and with no player taller than 6-foot-4 (193 cm), and inexperienced, with only one senior on the roster. Diminutive sophomore guard Brian "Puddy" Sheehan, the team's 5-foot-9 (175-cm) point guard, who was an expert ballhandler and a dominant player throughout his college career, emerged as the team's top scorer, averaging 18.4 points per game despite being the smallest man on the court. In his debut, he scored 30 points – a school record for points scored in a debut game – and he turned in a 25-point performance against Connecticut, 23 against Boston College, and 22 in a win over Syracuse. He scored only nine points in one of the games against Maryland, but he scored in double figures in every other game.
Sophomore center Tom Coleman also joined the varsity from the freshman team this year as its tallest player at 6-foot-4 (193 cm). He led the team in rebounding and scored 22 points in an upset of Loyola of Chicago and 31 against George Washington.
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