1965–66 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1965-66 record | 16–8 |
| Head coach | Tommy O'Keefe (6th year) |
| Assistant coach | Chuck Devlin (2nd year) |
| Captain | Jim Brown (1st year) |
| Home arena | McDonough Gymnasium |
The 1965–66 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1965-66 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Tommy O'Keefe coached it in his sixth and final 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 16-8 and no postseason play.
In the previous season, Georgetown had started strong, raising hopes for a post-season tournament berth, but lost seven of its final 10 games to drop out of consideration for post-season play. This year, the Hoyas had a mediocre start, going 5-5 in their first ten games, but three of those losses came by a combined total of only six points. They began the new year of 1966 with eight straight wins by an average 17-point margin. During the streak, they won back-to-back victories of 103-74 over George Washington and 104-73 over New York University (NYU). The winning streak pushed Georgetown's record to 13-5, and hopes of a post-season tournament berth were high.
Senior guard Jim Brown was a talented point guard who led the 1965-66 team to an average of 83.8 points scored per game, a Georgetown record that still stands. Brown scored in double figures in 17 of the season's 24 games and led the team in scoring in four games. He shot 84% from the free-throw line, and had school records with 177 assists and 7.38 assists per game; the assists record stood for 14 years, and the assists-per-game record still stands.
Junior forward Steve Sullivan led the team in scoring and averaged 9.7 rebounds per game. He scored 30 points against Boston College, had 27 points and 18 rebounds against Fordham, and put in a 25-point performance in the Navy game.
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