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May 02 2013
By Will Edman Athletics, News, Video

Georgetown releases rendering of new athletic center

Last week, Georgetown released an animated video rendering of the proposed Intercollegiate Athletic Center. The IAC — which will be built adjacent to McDonough Arena, in the space currently occupied by the tennis courts — will include new locker rooms, practice courts and meeting areas for Georgetown student-athletes.

“The Intercollegiate Athletics Center is essential to assuring the continued competitiveness of Georgetown’s athletics program,” Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Lee Reed told guhoyas.com in February. “Opening the IAC will benefit every athlete and program at Georgetown well into the future.”

The University’s fundraising aim for the athletics facility is $60 million.

Video posted below, after the jump:

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Mar 20 2013
By Pat Curran Big East, Men's Basketball, News

New Big East Now a Done Deal

The Big East is back. And while it might not be better than ever, it’s got a much more promising future than many would have guessed six months ago.

Ten schools — the “Catholic Seven” defections from the old Big East, plus Butler, Xavier and Creighton — have announced the official formation of the new conference, which will begin operations July 1. The new basketball-centric conference keeps the “Big East” name, will hold its annual tournament at Madison Square Garden and has a 12-year TV contract with Fox Sports.

The announcement gave closure to a long period of speculation and rumors about the Catholic Seven’s future. In the end, much of the speculation ended up being accurate, though some will be mildly surprised at the inclusion of Creighton rather than St. Louis, Dayton or Virginia Commonwealth.

After confirming that 10 schools will compete in the conference next year, Providence College President Rev. Brian Shanley left the possibility of expansion open.

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Mar 11 2013
By Ryan Bacic Men's Basketball, NBA Hoyas, News

Chris Wright To Be Signed by Dallas Mavericks

Former Georgetown standout point guard Chris Wright is set to be signed by the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, according to a report from ESPN’s Marc Stein last night. The Mavs opened up a roster spot yesterday when they waived former South Florida shooting guard Dominique Jones, and Wright — who averaged 15.5 points, 7.0 assists and 4.3 rebounds for the Iowa Energy of the D-League — apparently impressed Marc Cuban’s front office enough to trust him with that 15th slot, albeit reportedly on only a 10-day contract.
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Wright, who played alongside former Hoya teammate Henry Sims in the D-League All-Star Game on Feb. 16, has yet to feature for an NBA outfit in an official game. The floor general previously signed a non-guaranteed deal in October of last year with the New Orleans Hornets, but he did not make the final roster and subsequently caught on with the Energy.

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Jan 02 2013
By Pat Curran Men's Basketball, News

UCLA Center Josh Smith to Transfer to GU

In a refreshing change of pace, the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s first big story of the new year has nothing to do with conference realignment.

Former high school superstar and UCLA center Josh Smith will become a Hoya in 2013, CBS Sports’ Jeff Goodman reported Wednesday. The 6-foot-10 big man left the struggling Bruins program six games into his junior season, and Georgetown and Kansas emerged as immediate favorites to land him.

The 20th-best recruit in the Class of 2010 according to ESPN, Smith entered his freshman year at UCLA with high expectations. He averaged just over 10 points and six rebounds a game and generally impressed throughout his first season, but in subsequent years he struggled to maintain his weight and saw his playing time decline.

Smith appeared to have ballooned past his listed playing weight of 310 pounds this season — the aforementioned CBSSports.com article described him only as “300-plus” — and averaged a career-low 5.2 points in six games before leaving the team. He scored four points in limited minutes in UCLA’s loss to Georgetown last November.

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Dec 13 2012
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By Pat Curran Big East, News

Georgetown, Six Other Catholic Schools to Part Ways with Big East

Our long, campus-wide nightmare is finally over.

The seven remaining basketball-only Big East schools — Georgetown, Marquette, Villanova, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall and DePaul — have allegedly decided to break off from the conference, according to a CBSSports.com report.

The Big East has been the hardest hit of the major conferences in the turmoil of conference realignment in the last two years, losing Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville to the ACC, West Virginia to the Big 12 and Rutgers to the Big Ten.

The conference shifts, largely centered around maximizing TV deals for football, left the conference’s basketball-only schools with an uncertain future. Many fans expected Georgetown — which doesn’t award athletic scholarships in football and fields a team in the Patriot League — to either ride out the storm and play with whatever was left of the conference afterwards or pray for an invite to the ACC.

To the relief of the Hoya faithful, Georgetown and the rest of the Catholic, non-football schools are finally taking matters into their own hands.

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Nov 20 2012
By Ryan Bacic Football, News

McCabe Named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year

Six Hoya Players Honored Following 5-6 Season

The 2012 season certainly did not go the way that Head Coach Kevin Kelly and the Georgetown football team would have liked, as a 24-0 rout Saturday at the hands of Holy Cross on Senior Day resulted in a highly disappointing sub-.500 record. Tuesday, though, brought a bit of light to what had been a dark year.

Senior linebacker and captain Robert McCabe, the Patriot League announced today, has been named the league’s defensive player of the year, validating his selection as the preseason pick for the award last summer. McCabe — who was also named to the all-Patriot League first team for the second consecutive year — led the entire Football Championship Subdivision in tackles per game and total tackles, with his mark of 159 in the latter category a whopping 28 more than the next-highest player on the list.

The honor was a fitting end to what was a record-breaking senior season for the Pennsylvanian, who broke both the Georgetown single-season and career tackle records in decisive fashion this fall. McCabe is the second straight member of the Blue and Gray to earn defensive player of the year honors, following in the footsteps of since-graduated defensive end Andrew Schaetzke.

Schaetzke was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award last year as the FCS’s top defensive player, and McCabe should have a good shot at bringing that hardware home to the Hilltop in January. An effusive Kelly, for one, sounds like he wouldn’t be at all surprised if that possibility were to come to fruition.

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