1981–82 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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Big East Tournament Champions
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| Conference | Big East |
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| Coaches | No. 7 |
| AP | No. 6 |
| 1981–82 record | 30–7 (10-4 Big East) |
| Head coach | John Thompson, Jr. (10th year) |
| Assistant coach | Bill Stein (10th year) |
| Assistant coach | Norman Washington (2nd year) |
| Assistant coach | Eddie Meyers (1st year) |
| Captain | Eric "Sleepy" Floyd (2nd year) |
| Captain | Eric Smith (2nd year) |
| Captain | Ed Spriggs (2nd year) |
| Home arena | Capital Centre |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 24 | – | 8 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #6 Georgetown† | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 30 | – | 7 | .811 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. John's | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boston College | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 22 | – | 10 | .688 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Syracuse | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 16 | – | 13 | .552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 17 | – | 11 | .607 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Providence | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 10 | – | 17 | .370 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seton Hall | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 1982 Big East Tournament winner As of March 29, 1982; Rankings from AP Poll |
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The 1981–82 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 1981–82 NCAA Division I basketball season. John Thompson, Jr., coached them in his 10th season as head coach. It was the first season in which they played their home games at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, except for five games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C. They were members of the Big East Conference and finished the season with a record of 30-7 overall, 10-4 in Big East play. They won the 1982 Big East Tournament championship. In the 1982 NCAA Tournament they advanced to the national championship game, which they lost to North Carolina.
This season saw the arrival of freshman Patrick Ewing as Georgetown's center. Rumors arose even before his arrival that he lacked the academic ability to perform at Georgetown and some sportswriters opined that Georgetown was compromising its academic standards in order to recruit a star player like Ewing. John Thompson and other school officials dismissed the rumors and criticism, and Thompson went to great lengths to shield Ewing from the media. Ewing would go on to earn his degree from Georgetown on time in May 1985.
Georgetown's move from on-campus McDonough Gymnasium to the Capital Centre for its home games had been prompted by a surge in fan interest in the team as its prominence grew, especially after Ewing's arrival sparked great excitement; average attendance at Georgetown games was twice that of the previous season. The Hoyas started the season 11-2 against non-conference opponents, with senior guard and team co-captain Eric "Sleepy" Floyd getting off to an uncharacteristically slow start but then returning to his role as the team's leading scorer, with a combined 41 points in games against American and George Washington, 27 against Nevada-Las Vegas, and 14 of Georgetown's 38 points in a pre-shot-clock-era slow-down game against Columbia.
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