1986–87 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
1986–87 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | |
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Big East regular season co-champions Big East tournament champions | |
NCAA tournament, Elite Eight | |
Conference | Big East Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 4 |
AP | No. 4 |
Record | 29-5 (12-4 Big East) |
Head coach |
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Assistant coaches |
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Captain | Reggie Williams (1st year) |
Home arena | Capital Centre |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 4 Georgetown† | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 29 | – | 5 | .853 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 12 Pittsburgh | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 25 | – | 8 | .758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 10 Syracuse | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 31 | – | 7 | .816 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Providence | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 25 | – | 9 | .735 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St. John's | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Villanova | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 15 | – | 16 | .484 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seton Hall | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 15 | – | 14 | .517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boston College | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 11 | – | 18 | .379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connecticut | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 9 | – | 19 | .321 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† AP Poll
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The 1986–87 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented
Season recap
After the adoption of a
In May 1986,
Williams had one of the best individual seasons in Georgetown men's basketball history,
Junior Perry McDonald had a breakout season, and also contributed to Georgetown's nine-game winning streak at the start of the season. After two years as a reserve shooting guard, McDonald moved to forward to replace the departed Wingate, and at his new position his scoring and rebounding skills finally came to the fore. In the first game of the year he scored a then-career-high 17 points against Quincy in the opening game of the Hawaii-Hilo Classic, and he went on to score in double figures in 30 of the season's 34 games. His scoring average per game jumped from 4.4 and 3.4 points in the previous two seasons to 13.0 points this year.[3]
Freshman guard Mark Tillmon joined the team this season, starting 25 games and appearing in 33. He debuted with a 13-point game, and despite shooting only 39% from the field scored in double digits 13 times, finishing third in scoring on the team. In his best game of the year, he scored 19 points and seven rebounds at the Capital Centre against sixth-ranked DePaul. Overall, he averaged 9.7 points per game during the season.[4]
Another freshman guard, Dwayne Bryant, arrived as one of Georgetown's most highly regarded recruits of the 1980s and started 28 of the team's 34 games. He shot only 34% from the field overall and 26% from beyond the three-point line, however, and averaged only 19 minutes and 4.3 points per game, but he showed some of his offensive potential by finishing only one assist short of the team lead and with the second highest number of assists of any rookie player on the varsity team in Georgetown history. He would emerge as an important scoring threat during his junior year.[5]
Sophomore forward Jaren Jackson spent the season in a purely reserve role, averaging only 11 minutes and 5.7 points per game. Although he scored a season-high 19 points against Pittsburgh and had an 11-point, eight-rebound effort against Providence, his performance slumped as the season wore on and he averaged only 3.3 points per game during the latter part of the schedule. He would not emerge as one of Georgetown's top players until late in the following season.[6]
On January 31, 1987, Georgetown faced Syracuse at the Capital Centre before a national television audience. Thompson decided that Georgetown center Ben Gillery could not compete against 6-foot-11 (211-cm) Syracuse center Rony Seikaly, so he took the unusual step of putting the 6-foot-4 guard-forward (193-cm) McDonald, known for his fearless style against larger opponents, in to play against Seikaly. Georgetown trailed for most of the game, but McDonald rose to the occasion, putting in one of the best performances of his collegiate career. On defense, he held Seikaly to four field goals and 13 points and scored a career-high 21 points despite Seikaly's height advantage, including a turnaround jumper at the buzzer in overtime to give Georgetown an 83–81 victory. He also had seven rebounds. Williams, meanwhile, scored 30 points in the game.[2][7][8]
As Georgetown continued through its Big East schedule, Williams continued to excel. He scored 34 points and had 11 rebounds at
Georgetown shared the conference regular-season championship with Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Receiving a bye in the first round of the 1987 Big East men's basketball tournament, the Hoyas defeated Boston College in the quarterfinal with Williams scoring 24 points, Providence in the semifinal behind a 22-point performance by Williams, and Syracuse in the final in a game in which Williams scored 25 points. It was the fifth Big East tournament championship for Georgetown, and the third in four years.[2]
Georgetown was the No. 1 seed in the Southeast Region of the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the ninth of 14 consecutive Georgetown NCAA tournament appearances. In the first round, Williams led the way with 21 points in a win over Bucknell, and the Hoyas advanced to face a talented Ohio State team led by senior guard-forward Dennis Hopson in the second round.[2][9]
At the half, Ohio State had an 11-point lead over the Hoyas. After the first minute of the second half, the lead had increased to 15, and Georgetown fell as many as 21 points behind the Buckeyes in the second half even though Williams scored 24 points during the game. When Bryant went to the bench with four fouls early in the second half, Thompson put reserve guard Charles Smith into the game to replace him. Smith, recruited to serve strictly as a reserve, had played behind Horace Broadnax and Michael Jackson the previous year, averaging only 3.0 points per game with limited playing time, and this season as a reserve behind Bryant and Tillmon had started only two games and scored only seven points before returning to the bench, and was averaging only five points per game. Against Ohio State, however, his performance suddenly changed the entire path of his basketball career as he rallied the Hoyas with a 22-point effort. In the final seconds of the game, after Thompson told him not to shoot and instead to get the ball to a more proven player, Smith found himself open and took a shot anyway; he sank it to give Georgetown an 82–79 win. True to form, "Reggie and the Miracles" had staged a tremendous comeback behind Smith's breakout effort, winning a game after trailing by double digits for the seventh time. Like McDonald, who had emerged during the Big East regular season as a star, Smith would become one of the great players in Georgetown history.[2][9]
In the Southeast Region semifinal, Williams put in a 34-point performance in the Hoyas' victory over Kansas. The season finally came to an end in the Southeast Region final, when the region's No. 6 seed, Big East rival Providence, upset the Hoyas in a game in which Williams closed out his collegiate career by scoring 25 points. He finished the year setting nine of the school's individual season records, including points scored (802), three-point shots (78), points per game (23.6), rebounds (294), and minutes played (1,205). He graduated in May 1987 as one of only four Georgetown players to score 2,000 or more points, with a career average of 15.3 points per game. During his four years on the team, the Hoyas had posted a 122-19 (.865) record overall and a 56-5 (.918) record at home (.918).[2]
The team was ranked No. 4 in the season's final
Roster
# | Name | Height | Weight (lbs.) | Position | Class | Hometown | Previous Team(s) |
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4 | Bobby Winston | 6'5" | N/A | F
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So. | Washington, DC, U.S.
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All Saints HS
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10 | Perry McDonald | 6'4" | 190 | F
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Jr. | New Orleans, LA, U.S.
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George Washington Carver Senior HS
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12 | Dwayne Bryant | 6'2" | 190 | G
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Fr. | New Orleans, LA, U.S.
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De La Salle HS |
13 | Charles Smith | 6'0" | 160 | G
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So. | Washington, DC, U.S.
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All Saints HS
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20 | Mark Tillmon | 6'2" | 190 | G
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Fr. | Washington, DC, U.S.
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Gonzaga College HS |
21 | Jaren Jackson | 6'2" | 190 | F
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So. | New Orleans, LA, U.S.
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Walter L. Cohen HS
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24 | Anthony Allen | 6'7" | 190 | F
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Fr. | Port Arthur, TX, U.S.
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Abraham Lincoln HS |
34 | Reggie Williams | 6'7" | 190 | F
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Sr. | Baltimore, MD, U.S.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar HS
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41 | Tom Lang | 6'0" | N/A | G
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Jr. | Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. | Thomas Sprigg Wootton HS
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42 | Johnathan Edwards | 6'8" | N/A | F
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So. | New Orleans, LA, U.S.
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O. Perry Walker HS
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44 | Ronnie Highsmith | 6'8" | N/A | F
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Jr. | Robersonville, NC, U.S.
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United States Army |
50 | Sam Jefferson | 7'2" | N/A | F/C
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Fr. | Washington, DC, U.S.
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Oakton, VA )
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51 | Ben Gillery | 7'0" | N/A | C | Jr. | Detroit, MI, U.S.
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Hutchinson Community College (Ks.) |
Rankings
Poll | Pre | Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7 | Wk 8 | Wk 9 | Wk 10 | Wk 11 | Wk 12 | Wk 13 | Wk 14 | Final |
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AP | 18 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
Coaches Poll | –[note 1] | 12 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
1986–87 Schedule and results
Sources[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Georgetown and
- All times are Eastern
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Regular Season | |||||||||||
Fri., Nov. 28, 1986* |
No. 18 | vs. Quincy Hawaii-Hilo Classic |
W 90–45 | 1–0 |
Hilo, HI
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Sat., Nov. 29, 1986* |
No. 18 | vs. Washburn Hawaii-Hilo Classic |
W 84–55 | 2–0 |
University of Hawaii at Hilo Gymnasium (2,400) Hilo, HI | ||||||
Wed., Dec. 3, 1986* |
No. 16 | Grambling State | W 96–52 | 3–0 |
Landover, MD
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Sat., Dec. 6, 1986* |
No. 16 | Saint Leo | W 126–51 | 4–0 |
Capital Centre (N/A) Landover, MD | ||||||
Tue., Dec. 9, 1986* |
No. 13 | at Arizona State | cancelled | Tempe, AZ
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Sat., Dec. 13, 1986* |
No. 13 | Arizona | W 82–74 | 5–0 |
Capital Centre (10,063) Landover, MD | ||||||
Wed., Dec. 17, 1986* |
No. 10 | American | W 62–59 | 6–0 |
Capital Centre (4,960) Landover, MD | ||||||
Sat., Dec. 20, 1986* |
No. 10 | Texas-El Paso
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W 71–67 | 7–0 |
Capital Centre (5,764) Landover, MD | ||||||
Tue., Dec. 23, 1986* |
No. 10 | Florida A&M | W 94–65 | 8–0 |
Capital Centre (5,197) Landover, MD | ||||||
Tue., Dec. 30, 1986* |
No. 8 | at Long Beach State
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W 86–72 | 9–0 |
Long Beach, CA
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Sat., Jan. 3, 1987 |
No. 8 | Seton Hall | L 53–74 | 9–1 (0–1) |
Capital Centre (6,472) Landover, MD | ||||||
Wed., Jan. 7, 1987 |
No. 16 | No. 10 St. John's | W 60–46 | 10–1 (1–1) |
Capital Centre (11,843) Landover, MD | ||||||
Sat., Jan. 10, 1987 |
No. 16 | at No. 14 Pittsburgh | W 82–70 | 11–1 (2–1) |
Pittsburgh, PA
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Mon., Jan. 12, 1987 |
No. 16 | at Villanova | W 80–73 | 12–1 (3–1) |
Philadelphia, PA
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Sat., Jan. 17, 1987 |
No. 9 | at Seton Hall | L 65–66 | 12–2 (3–2) |
East Rutherford, NJ
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Wed., Jan. 21, 1987 |
No. 15 | Rivalry
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W 65–51 | 13–2 (4–2) |
Capital Centre (7,353) Landover, MD | ||||||
Sun., Jan. 25, 1987* |
No. 15 | No. 6 DePaul | W 74–71 | 14–2 |
Capital Centre (N/A) Landover, MD | ||||||
Wed., Jan 28, 1987 |
No. 11 | at Providence | L 79–82 | 14–3 (4–3) |
Providence, RI
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Sat., Jan. 31, 1987 3:00 p.m. |
No. 11 | No. 6 Syracuse
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W 83–81 OT | 15–3 (5–3) |
Capital Centre (18,744) Landover, MD | ||||||
Mon., Feb. 1, 1987 |
No. 11 | at No. 15 St. John's | L 65–67 | 15–4 (5–4) |
New York, NY
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Sat., Feb. 7, 1987 |
No. 10 | Villanova | W 89–86 | 16–4 (6–4) |
Capital Centre (14,052) Landover, MD | ||||||
Mon., Feb. 9, 1987 |
No. 10 | Boston College | W 78–56 | 17–4 (7–4) |
Capital Centre (6,147) Landover, MD | ||||||
Wed., Feb. 11, 1987 |
No. 13 | at Connecticut Rivalry
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W 78–50 | 18–4 (8–4) |
Hartford, CT
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Mon., Feb. 16, 1987* |
No. 13 | Bowie State | W 87–51 | 19–4 |
Washington, DC
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Wed., Feb. 18, 1987 |
No. 11 | No. 8 Pittsburgh | W 65–52 | 20–4 (9–4) |
Capital Centre (12,564) Landover, MD | ||||||
Sun., Feb 22, 1987 2:30 p.m. |
No. 10 | at No. 9 Syracuse | W 72–71 | 21–4 (10–4) |
Syracuse, NY
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Tue., Feb. 24, 1987 |
No. 8 | at Boston College | W 79–65 | 22–4 (11–4) |
Boston, MA
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Sat., Feb. 28, 1987 |
No. 8 | No. 20 Providence | W 90–79 | 23–4 (12–4) |
Capital Centre (17,025) Landover, MD | ||||||
Big East tournament | |||||||||||
Fri., Mar. 6, 1987 |
(1) No. 7 | vs. (8) Boston College Quarterfinals |
W 56–51 | 24–4 |
Madison Square Garden (19,591) New York, NY | ||||||
Sat., Mar. 7, 1987 |
(1) No. 7 | vs. (4) Providence Semifinals |
W 84–66 | 25–4 |
Madison Square Garden (19,591) New York, NY | ||||||
Sun., Mar. 8, 1987 2:30 p.m. |
(1) No. 7 | vs. (3) No. 10 Syracuse Championship |
W 69–59 | 26–4 |
Madison Square Garden (19,591) New York, NY | ||||||
NCAA Tournament | |||||||||||
Fri., Mar. 13, 1987 |
(1 SE) No. 4 | vs. (16 SE) Bucknell First round |
W 75–53 | 27–4 |
Atlanta, GA
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Sun., Mar. 15, 1987 |
(1 SE) No. 4 | vs. (9 SE) Ohio State Second round |
W 82–79 | 28–4 |
Omni Coliseum (15,236) Atlanta, GA | ||||||
Fri., Mar. 20, 1987 |
(1 SE) No. 4 | vs. (5 SE) No. 20 Kansas Sweet Sixteen |
W 70–57 | 29–4 |
Louisville, KY
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Sun., Mar. 22, 1987 |
(1 SE) No. 4 | vs. (6 SE) Providence Elite Eight |
L 73–88 | 29–5 |
Freedom Hall (16,944) Louisville, KY | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from
AP Poll . (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. |
Notes
- Coaches' Pollthis week.
References
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- ^ a b c "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 30. Perry McDonald". Archived from the original on August 7, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ a b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 18. Mark Tillmon". Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ a b "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 47. Dwayne Bryant". Archived from the original on August 7, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 49. Jaren Jackson". Archived from the original on August 7, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Classic Games". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ^ Lederman, Douglas, "COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Hoyas Outlast Syracuse ," The New York Times, February 1, 1987.
- ^ a b The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 12. Charles Smith
- ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1980-81 to 1989-1990". Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
- ^ The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Player Directory: Jersey Numbers
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- ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Records vs. All Opponents". Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
- ^ 2012-2013 Georgetown Men's Basketball Media Guide, p. 64.
- ^ Official Basketball Box Score Syracuse vs Georgetown 1/31/87 3:00 p.m. at Capital Center, Washington D.C.
- ^ Waters, Mike, "A look back at the 13 times Syracuse basketball has set the attendance record at the Carrier Dome," syracuse.com, 31 January 2014, 12:30 p.m. EST
- ^ Official Basketball Box Score Georgetown vs Syracuse 2/22/87 2:30 p.m. at Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
- ^ Official Basketball Box Score Syracuse vs Georgetown 3/8/87 2:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
- ^ "Georgetown Gives Bowie a Shot," The Afro-American, January 31, 1987, p. 9.