2003–04 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
2003–04 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | |
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Conference | Big East |
Record | 13-15 (4-12 Big East) |
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Home arena | MCI Center |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 9 Pittsburgh | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 31 | – | 5 | .861 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 7 Connecticut † | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 33 | – | 6 | .846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 21 Providence | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 20 | – | 9 | .690 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 20 Syracuse | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 23 | – | 8 | .742 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 25 Boston College | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 24 | – | 10 | .706 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seton Hall | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 21 | – | 12 | .636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notre Dame | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 19 | – | 13 | .594 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia Tech | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 15 | – | 14 | .517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 20 | – | 13 | .606 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 17 | – | 14 | .548 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Villanova | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 18 | – | 17 | .514 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgetown | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miami (FL)* | 4 | – | 12 | .250 | 14 | – | 16 | .467 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St. John's* | 1 | – | 15 | .063 | 6 | – | 21 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† AP Poll *Did not qualify for 2004 Big East tournament |
The 2003–04 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented
Season Recap
Senior forward and team co-captain Gerald Riley started all 28 games, completing his string of starting all 125 games of his collegiate career. With
Sophomore
The team opened the season 10-0, including a victory over Rutgers in the Big East opener, but it sorely missed the departed Sweetney and won only three more games as virtually the entire team slumped. Riley excelled in the two victories over Miami, scoring 35 points at Miami and then 37 points against the Hurricanes a week later at the MCI Center, the most points scored by a Georgetown forward in a single game since 1965. In the two Miami games combined, he shot 25-for-32 (78.1%) from the field and a perfect 16-for-16 from the free-throw line. Otherwise, however, his numbers went into decline as the team's fortunes fell.[2] Owens also saw his performance drop; during Georgetown's season-ending nine-game losing streak, he never scored in double figures and averaged only 4.5 points per game.[5] Among Hoya players, only Bowman did not slump. He led the team in rebounds in 15 of the last 17 games of the year. Though he also struggled at the onset of the nine-game losing streak, he shot 46 percent from the field during the final four games of the season compared to 31 percent for the rest of the team. The team averaged 52 points a game during its last four games, and Bowman was responsible for a third of them.[3]
Losing 14 of the final 17 games of the regular season, the team finished the regular season at 13-14 overall and 4-12 in the Big East – the worst conference record it ever had in the 34-season history of the original Big East Conference – and tied for 12th place. It went into the 2004 Big East tournament with an eight-game losing streak and lost in the first round to Boston College. The tournament loss extended the team's losing streak to nine games, tying the school record for the most games lost in a row set by the hapless 3-23 team of 1971-72.[3]
The team's 13-15 final record was the first losing record for a Georgetown team since the 1998-99 team went 15-16 and only the second since the 1972-73 team posted a 12-14 record. With no postseason play, Georgetown missed the NCAA tournament for the third year in a row and for the sixth time in seven years. Although the 2001-02 team had no postseason play after Esherick declined an invitation to the 2002 National Invitation Tournament (NIT), the 2003-04 team was the first Georgetown squad to receive no invitation to either the NCAA tournament or the NIT since 1973-74.
Esherick fired
Craig Esherick – a former Georgetown player who had served as a Hoyas assistant coach for 17½ seasons before succeeding
However, after only one NCAA Tournament appearance during Esherick′s tenure, three consecutive seasons without an NCAA Tournament appearance, and a sub-.500 performance in 2003-04 that ended with the record-tying losing streak, DeGioia fired Esherick on March 16, 2004, just six days after the end of the season.[6] Assistant coaches Mike Riley, Jaren Jackson, and Chuck Driesell also left the team at the end of the season, Riley after 22 seasons as an assistant coach at Georgetown and the other two after a single season of coaching the Hoyas.[8]
Roster
Source[9]
# | Name | Height | Weight (lbs.) | Position | Class | Hometown | Previous Team(s) |
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0 | Ashanti Cook | 6'2" | 175 | G
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Jr. | Inglewood, CA, U.S.
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Westchester HS
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1 | Brandon Bowman | 6'8¾" | 213 | F
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Jr. | Santa Monica, CA, U.S.
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Westchester HS
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2 | Courtland Freeman | 6'9" | 227 | F/|C
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Sr. | Myrtle Beach, SC, U.S.
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Socastee HS |
3 | Omari Faulkner | 6'6" | 205 | F
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Sr. | Memphis, TN, U.S.
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Hamilton HS |
4 | Kenny Izzo | 6'8" | 200 | F/C
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So. | Chicago, IL, U.S.
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Fenwick HS |
5 | Ray Reed | 6'0¾" | 163 | G
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So. | Inglewood, CA, U.S.
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Inglewood HS |
10 | RaMell Ross | 6'5¾" | 201 | F
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Sr. | Fairfax, VA, U.S.
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Lake Braddock Secondary |
14 | Matt Causey | 6'11½" | 171 | G
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So. | Gainesville, GA, U.S.
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Berkmar HS |
20 | Darrell Owens | 6'6" | 206 | G
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Sr. | Napoleonville, LA, U.S.
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Assumption HS |
32 | Gerald Riley | 6'6" | 217 | G
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Sr. | Milledgeville, GA, U.S.
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Baldwin HS
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40 | Ryan Beal | 6'5" | 194 | G
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Jr. | Coral Gables, FL, U.S.
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Ransom Everglades School |
44 | Amadou Kilkenny-Diaw | 6'8" | 220 | F/C
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Jr. | Washington, DC, U.S.
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St. Albans School |
52 | Sead Dizdarevic | 6'8" | 230 | F
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So. | Serbia and Montenegro | North Highland HS |
Rankings
The team was not ranked in the Top 25 in either the
2003–04 Schedule and results
Sources[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]
- All times are Eastern
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Preseason | |||||||||||
Sat., Nov. 1, 2003* 2:00pm[70] |
Israeli All-Stars | W 101-64 | exhibition |
Washington, DC
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Regular season | |||||||||||
Fri., Nov. 21, 2003* 7:30 p.m. |
Grambling State | W 83-36 | 1–0 |
MCI Center (5,437)Washington, DC | |||||||
Sun., Nov. 23, 2003* 3:00pm |
at Penn State | W 79-78 | 2–0 |
University Park, PA
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Tue., Nov. 25, 2003* 7:30pm |
Coastal Carolina | W 81-68 | 3–0 |
MCI Center (4,189) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Nov. 29, 2003* 1:00pm |
Delaware State | W 63-54 | 4–0 |
MCI Center (5,003) Washington, DC | |||||||
Wed., Dec. 3, 2003* 7:30pm |
Norfolk State | W 76-53 | 5–0 |
MCI Center (4,314) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Dec. 6, 2003* 8:00pm |
Davidson | W 71–53 | 6–0 |
MCI Center (5,657) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Dec. 13, 2003* 12:00 noon |
Elon | W 91-70 | 7–0 |
MCI Center (5,683) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Dec. 20, 2003* 1:00pm |
Howard
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W 89–58 | 8–0 |
MCI Center (4,412) Washington, DC | |||||||
Mon., Dec. 22, 2003* 7:00pm |
at The Citadel
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W 85–62 | 9–0 |
Charleston, SC
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Sat., Jan. 3, 2004 2:00pm |
Rutgers | W 63-57 | 10–0 (1–0) |
MCI Center (8,194) Washington, DC | |||||||
Tue., Jan. 6, 2004 7:30pm |
Boston College | L 64–72 | 10–1 (1–1) |
MCI Center (7,735) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Jan. 10, 2004 12:00 noon |
at West Virginia | L 58–62 | 10–2 (1–2) |
Morgantown, WV
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Wed., Jan. 14, 2004 7:30pm |
at No. 1 Rivalry
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L 70–94 | 10–3 (1–3) |
Storrs, CT
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Tue., Jan. 20, 2004 7:30pm |
St. John's | W 71–69 | 11–3 (2–3) |
MCI Center (7,203) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Jan. 24, 2004* 2:00pm |
No. 1 Duke | L 66–85 | 11–4 |
MCI Center (20,193) Washington, DC | |||||||
Mon., Jan. 26, 2004 7:30pm |
at Providence | L 50–65 | 11–5 (2–4) |
Providence, RI
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Sat., Jan. 31, 2004 7:30pm |
at Miami | W 87–80 OT | 12-5 (3–4) |
Coral Gables, FL
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Thu., Feb. 5, 2004 7:30pm |
Villanova | L 60–75 | 12–6 (3–5) |
MCI Center (7,738) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Feb. 7, 2004 7:00pm |
Miami | W 80–64 | 13–6 (4–5) |
MCI Center (10,581) Washington, DC | |||||||
Wed., Feb. 11, 2004 7:00pm |
at Virginia Tech | L 65–80 | 13–7 (4–6) |
Blacksburg, VA
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Sat., Feb. 14, 2004* 2:00pm |
at Temple | L 53–59 | 13–8 |
Philadelphia, PA
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Wed., Feb. 18, 2004 7:30pm |
at St. John's | L 58–65 | 13–9 (4–7) |
New York, NY
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Sat., Feb. 21, 2004 12:00 noon |
Syracuse
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L 54–57 | 13–10 (4–8) |
MCI Center (15,389) Washington, DC | |||||||
Tue., Feb. 24, 2004 7:30pm |
No. 3 Pittsburgh | L 58–68 | 13–11 (4–9) |
MCI Center (11,876) Washington, DC | |||||||
Sat., Feb. 28, 2004 7:00pm |
at Seton Hall | L 48–75 | 13–12 (4–10) |
East Rutherford, NJ
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Thu., Mar. 4, 2004 7:00pm |
at Notre Dame | L 48–61 | 13–13 (4–11) |
Notre Dame, IN
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Sat., Mar. 6, 2004 12:00 noon |
Virginia Tech | L 55–60 | 13–14 (4–12) |
MCI Center (11,286) Washington, DC | |||||||
Big East tournament | |||||||||||
Wed., Mar. 10, 2004 2:00pm |
vs. Boston College First Round |
L 57–68 | 13–15 |
Madison Square Garden (19,173) New York, NY | |||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from
AP Poll . (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. |
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- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Georgetown at Penn State, November 23, 2003
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- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Howard at Georgetown, December 20, 2003
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- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Georgetown at Connecticut, January 14, 2004
- ^ basketball.realgm.com Box Score: Georgetown at Connecticut, January 14, 2004
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- ^ basketball.realgm.com Box Score: St. John's at Georgetown, January 20, 2004
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- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Pittsburgh at Georgetown, February 24,2004
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- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Georgetown at Notre Dame, March 4, 2004
- ^ basketball.realgm.com Box Score: Georgetown at Notre Dame, March 4,2004
- ^ espn.go.com Box Score: Virginia Tech at Georgetown, March 6, 2004
- ^ basketball.realgm.com Box Score: Virginia Tech at Georgetown, March 6, 2004
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