Georgetown Basketball

Chvotkin, Mourning To Receive Local Honors

  7/23/25

 

Georgetown radio announcer Rich Chvotkin and former basketball All-American Alonzo Mourning (C'92) have been named to the list of 2025 inductees for the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame at Nationals Park.

Other inductees include Washington Mystics guard Alana Beard; basketball player Johnny Dawkins, Olympic soccer medalist Mia Hamm, former George Mason men's basketball coach Jim Larranaga, Washington Capitals television analyst Craig Laughlin, and a team recognition for the 1991 Washington Redskins Super Bowl team.

Though not housed in a building, the former "Washington Hall of Stars" at RFK Stadium was renamed and relocated above the left field wall at Nationals Park in 2011. Chvotkin and Mourning will join past Georgetown inductees such as former baseball coach Joe Judge, boxing coach Marty Gallagher, basketball coach John Thompson, sports owner Ted Leonsis (C'77), baseball pitcher Guy "Doc" White (D'1902), basketball player Patrick Ewing (C'85), former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue (C'62), and a team designation for the 1983-84 NCAA championship basketball team.

Ceremonies will be held on August 3 prior to the Nationals game that day.

Early Big East Rankings: Georgetown 5th

  7/22/25

 

Reporter Jon Rothstein opens the door to the first of the early rankings for the 2025-26 season, placing Georgetown fifth heading into the second half of the summer.

"Malik Mack is back at point guard and there's also a number of players that Ed Cooley has added, 6-4 or 6-5, who should be able to pass, dribble, and also defend multiple positions," he said. "I don't know how good a shooting team Georgetown is going to be," he added, and asked how the Hoyas will replace Thomas Sorber in the pivot.

"There's a chance for this to be a decent team, I don't know, though, if Georgetown has enough yet to make the NCAA tournament."

He also added: "For the Big East to continues to have a seat at the table, it needs to get mileage out of Villanova and Georgetown," citing GU's unlikely 2021 Big East tournament win and its last at-large NCAA appearance being a decade ago. "The Big East needs Villanova and Georgetown to be nationally relevant."

The Big East needs more out of both Villanova and Georgetown.

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— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) July 22, 2025

College Basketball Crown Shrinks In 2026

  7/22/25

 

As few as two Big East schools will be invited to the 2026 College Basketball Crown, according to a Fox news release.

The Crown, which debuted in 2025 with a 16 team field, will shrink to eight schools, with two teams each from the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, and two wild card entrants. The Big East included four teams in last season's event, won by Nebraska over Central Florida.

The format change reflects a "strategic refinement, designed to deliver stronger matchups, enhanced fan experiences, and continued commercial success across every stage of the tournament," reads a Fox Sports news release.

Overall ratings for the Crown were promising. Its competition that week was the National Invitation Tournament on ESPN, from which the Crown out drew the NIT finals by 62 percent. But owing to its Pacific time zone starts and a lack of compelling first round opponents, early Crown games drew poorly. The March 31 Georgetown-Washington State game, which began after 11:00 pm on the East Coast, drew just 71,000 nationally, while the quarterfinal two days later versus Nebraska increased to 209,000.

Attendance for the tournament is also an area of concern. The eight game series averaged 2,505 per game at the 17,000 seat MGM Grand Garden Arena and the 18,000 seat T-Mobile Arena. The two Georgetown games drew an average of 2,729.

Here are the complete game-by-game CROWN viewership averages:

The tournament performed well enough to likely stick around for the foreseeable future.

For context, in 2025, FS1 has averaged 199,000 viewers during primetime.

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— Big East TV Ratings (@BigEastRatings) April 9, 2025

Peacock: 37% Increase Ahead

  7/18/25

 

The price of watching Big East basketball is about to go up.

A story at Vulture reports that Peacock, the streaming division of NBC Universal which will be broadcasting a number of Big East games for the next six years, is increasing monthly fees from $7.99 to $10.99 per month, with its ad-free tier increasing to $16.99. The increase is nearly double what the streamer, then priced at $5.99 with ads, charged just over a year ago.

The price increase is not going to the Big East, however.

"The move is not entirely unexpected," writes Vulture's Josef Adalian. "For one thing, almost all streamers have sharply raised rates the past few years, and Peacock likely won't be the last to do so this year. But this specific increase seemed inevitable in the wake of NBCU's massive investment in sports content, particularly the NBA, which arrives on the platform in October."

Peacock will be joined by ESPN+ for third tier Big East media rights this season. A subscription for ESPN+ is now $11.99 per month.

Hoyas To Participate In August Tournament

  7/17/25

 

Georgetown is one of two NCAA teams which will participate in a four day international tournament in Toronto.

The event, known as Globl Jam, will feature the Georgetown men's team and the Texas women's team to represent the United States in three exhibitions against under-23 teams from August 13 through August 16. The Hoyas will meet teams from Canada, Brazil, and Japan, with a medal round to follow August 17.

"We're honored for this opportunity to represent the United States at Globl Jam in Toronto," head coach Ed Cooley said in a news release. "This is a special chance for our players to compete internationally, grow together, and immerse ourselves in a new culture through sport."

Games will be held at the Mattamy Athletic Centre, a building which once housed the venerable Maple Leaf Gardens from 1931 to 2003. Georgetown actually played at the Gardens once before: a December 10, 1994 game versus Memphis, won by the Hoyas 83-80 (OT) before 10,380 in attendance and a national TV audience on ESPN.

At present, the games will be broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet and Sportsnet+, both of which are georestricted within Canada and not available in the US.

For additional information, please visit the Globl Jam site.