1967–68 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
| 1967-68 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1967-68 record | 11–12 |
| Head coach | John Magee (2nd season) |
| Assistant coach | Bob Reese (2nd season) |
| Captain | Dennis Cesar (1st year) |
| Captain | Bruce Stinebrickner (1st year) |
| Home arena | McDonough Gymnasium |
The 1967–68 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1967-68 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John Magee 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 with a record of 11-12 and had no post-season play.
Only five lettermen returned from the previous season's 12-11 team, none of them taller than 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) tall. After a strong season on the freshman team, sophomore center Charlie Adrion joined them on the varsity this season. In mid-December 1968, Magee moved sophomore forward Paul Favorite to center and moved Adrion to forward. The switch was successful; at forward, Adrion excelled on both offense and defense. In the third game of the season, at Syracuse, he led the Hoyas in scoring for the first time with 18 points. He followed this up with 21 points and 19 rebounds against Loyola, 15 points and 13 rebounds against Rutgers, 18 points and 17 rebounds three days later against Xavier, and, in arguably the best performance by a Georgetown player in a single game, 30 points and 29 rebounds on February 22, 1968, against George Washington. He scored 20 or more points in six of the last eight games of the year and finished the season averaging 17 points and 10 rebounds a game.
Eight games into the season, senior guard and team co-captain Bruce Stinebrickner was shooting 63% from the field – among the top ten in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) – and he averaged 12.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game this year. He scored in double figures in 16 games, twice scored a career-high 23 points, and against New York University (NYU) had 16 points and 13 rebounds, a rebounding effort matched by only two other Georgetown guards. He finished the year shooting 51.7% from the field for his career – still the second highest for a Hoya guard – never having shot under 50% for a season.
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