The 1930–31 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented

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during the 1930–31 NCAA

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season. John Colrick coached it in his first and only season as head coach. Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Tech Gymnasium on the campus of McKinley Technical High School in

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,The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts
/ref> except for one home game it played at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus. It finished with a record of 5–16.

Season recap

After the Hoyas disappointing 13–12 record the previous season, Georgetown had hired Colrick from his ''alma mater'', Notre Dame, to serve as a

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assistant and, following that, to take over as the Hoyas head basketball coach. At Notre Dame, he had assisted head coach

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; employing an up-tempo offense known as the "Western-style" offense, Keogan never had a losing season in his 20 years as Notre Dames head coach between 1923 and 1943. Georgetowns athletics department hoped that Colrick would bring a successful version of the "Western-style" offense to Georgetown, but the team instead performed very poorly, finishing with a record of 5–16. Its .238 winning percentage was the worst in Georgetown men's basketball history until the 1971–72 team finished with a 3–23 record and .115 winning percentage. Colrick left Georgetown shortly after the end of the season and spent a single season coaching basketball at

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the following year. His career after that is obscure. Georgetown deemphasized sports during the 1930s, and this season began a period of mediocrity in Georgetown basketball that stretched throughout the decade. From the beginning of this season through the end of the 1939–40 season, Georgetown would have a combined record of 32 games under .500, with only three winning seasons.

Roster

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1930–31 schedule and results

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and the Brooklyn Knights of Columbus therefore counted as part of Georgetowns won-loss record for 1930–31. It was not until 1952, after the completion of the 1951–52 season, that the

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(NCAA) ruled that colleges and universities could no longer count games played against non-collegiate opponents in their annual won-loss records. , - !colspan=9 style="background:#002147; color:#8D817B;", Regular Season

References

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