nothing we don't already know but a question was asked about Georgetown:
What’s next for Georgetown? — Darrell Z.
Man. This question is a lot.
Or, well, the answer could be, anyway. We’re going to pass on relitigating the entire saga of the 2019-20 Hoyas, because we’ve covered it extensively in the past few months, and you all know how that ended. Still, the way Georgetown’s season went — how all over the place it was, how variously promising and ultimately disappointing and unpredictable — does play a role in how little we feel comfortable predicting about the Hoyas next season. It all feels wide open.
Except for this much: Omer Yurtseven is gone. That always seemed like the plan, far as we could gather, and Yurtseven made it all but official with this not-quite-explicit-but-almost Instagram farewell. He’ll be a big loss — there are few multitalented true bigs like him left in college basketball — but we wouldn’t sleep on what Qudus Wahab will be by the time he’s a sophomore. Mac McClung will be back, and as willing to get shots up as ever. Jahvon Blair showed big things down the stretch. And … that’s kind of it, in terms of things we know about the 2020-21 Georgetown Hoyas.
Presumably, Ewing and his staff are hitting the grad-transfer circuit as hard as any program in the country. This season, Ewing’s third year, was all set up to be the big NCAA Tournament breakthrough. Far a variety of reasons — personnel departures, alleged incidents, eventual injury attrition — that didn’t happen. Now the goal is to maintain any of that trajectory in Year 4, with a roster that looks undermanned for the task. Things change fast, huh?
What’s next for Georgetown? — Darrell Z.
Man. This question is a lot.
Or, well, the answer could be, anyway. We’re going to pass on relitigating the entire saga of the 2019-20 Hoyas, because we’ve covered it extensively in the past few months, and you all know how that ended. Still, the way Georgetown’s season went — how all over the place it was, how variously promising and ultimately disappointing and unpredictable — does play a role in how little we feel comfortable predicting about the Hoyas next season. It all feels wide open.
Except for this much: Omer Yurtseven is gone. That always seemed like the plan, far as we could gather, and Yurtseven made it all but official with this not-quite-explicit-but-almost Instagram farewell. He’ll be a big loss — there are few multitalented true bigs like him left in college basketball — but we wouldn’t sleep on what Qudus Wahab will be by the time he’s a sophomore. Mac McClung will be back, and as willing to get shots up as ever. Jahvon Blair showed big things down the stretch. And … that’s kind of it, in terms of things we know about the 2020-21 Georgetown Hoyas.
Presumably, Ewing and his staff are hitting the grad-transfer circuit as hard as any program in the country. This season, Ewing’s third year, was all set up to be the big NCAA Tournament breakthrough. Far a variety of reasons — personnel departures, alleged incidents, eventual injury attrition — that didn’t happen. Now the goal is to maintain any of that trajectory in Year 4, with a roster that looks undermanned for the task. Things change fast, huh?