1975–76 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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ECAC South Region Tournament Champions
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NCAA Tournament, First Round
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1975-76 record | 21–7 |
| Head coach | John Thompson, Jr. (4th season) |
| Assistant coach | Bill Stein (4th season) |
| Assistant coach | Dwight Datcher (2nd season) |
| Captain | Jonathan Smith (2nd year) |
| Captain | Merlin Wilson (1st year) |
| Home arena | McDonough Gymnasium |
The 1975–76 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1975-76 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John Thompson, Jr., coached them in his fourth season as head coach. An independent, Georgetown played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C., and finished the season with a record of 21-7. The team won the 1976 ECAC South Region Tournament and appeared in the 1976 NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, losing in the first round to Arizona.
Sophomore center Ed Hopkins had required surgery for a serious leg injury during the summer of 1975, and his recovery hampered him this season, although he appeared in 26 of Georgetown's 28 games. With Hopkins limited, and despite suffering from back problems, senior center and team co-captain Merlin Wilson started all 28 games, shot 57 percent from the field, and averaged 11.1 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. He had a 22-point, 20-rebound performance against Upsala in the season opener, the last of eight 20-rebound games during his collegiate career, by far a school record no one has come close to since.
Although he averaged only 13 shots per game, sophomore guard Derrick Jackson became the team's leading scorer this season, the first of three seasons he achieved this. He averaged 17 points per game and scored a career-high 28 points against Penn State. Over the season as a whole, he shot 195-for-399 (48.9%) from the field and scored 406 points; he would post almost identical statistics the following season.
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