Ewing, Hoyas snap 21-game losing skid in OT

On Nov. 27, 1972, John Thompson Jr. made his coaching debut astatine Georgetown, wherever helium led the programme to the 1984 nationalist rubric and turned the Hoyas into a assemblage hoops powerhouse.

On Tuesday, 50 years aft Thompson's reign began, Georgetown snapped a 21-game losing streak.

Prior to Georgetown's 99-89 overtime win against Coppin State, Patrick Ewing's squad had not won a crippled successful 328 days. But the triumph did not travel without a fight.

Head manager Juan Dixon, the erstwhile Maryland star, and Coppin State -- picked to decorativeness 5th successful the MEAC's preseason canvass -- held a pb implicit Georgetown precocious successful the crippled and past weathered a burst by the Hoyas down the agelong earlier Mike Hood deed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer successful regularisation to nonstop the crippled into overtime.

Georgetown managed to propulsion distant from Coppin State, which besides played a crippled connected Monday night, successful overtime.

Justin Steers came disconnected the seat to pb Coppin State with 21 points, portion Primo Spears finished with a game-high 28 points for Georgetown.

Georgetown nary longer resembles the programme Thompson, who died successful 2020, erstwhile guided during its richest years arsenic helium molded prima players, specified arsenic Ewing, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning and Allen Iverson.

Following Georgetown's 85-73 triumph implicit Howard connected Dec. 15, 2021, the Hoyas mislaid their adjacent 21 games. The Hoyas person not won a Big East crippled since March 2, 2021.

Six players entered the transportation portal aft past year's struggles and Aminu Mohammed, the team's champion player, turned pro. Ewing began this play with 9 caller players.

He has been the taxable of rumors astir his occupation presumption successful caller years. While it's hard to envision the schoolhouse firing a fable who led the squad to a nationalist rubric nether Thompson, it's besides hard to ideate Georgetown accepting different play akin to what it endured past season.

"The large happening astir this year, astir now, is it's a caller year," Ewing told reporters anterior to Tuesday's game. "We're starting disconnected fresh. We person to marque definite that we get and enactment connected way from commencement to decorativeness and marque definite that we are affirmative and upbeat and each the things that we talked astir from this summer."