The 1966–67 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented

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during the 1966–67

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season. John Magee coached them in his first season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at

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on the Georgetown campus in

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After the departure of Georgetown head coach

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at the end of the previous season, no college head coach or assistant coach applied for the job.

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head coach

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recommended Magee, the head coach of Catholic Memorial School in

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. Georgetown hired Magee, who would go on to coach the Hoyas for six seasons.

Season recap

Junior

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Dennis Cesar, an expert in shooting

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s, shot 12-for-16 from the field at

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. In the two games of the

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in late December 1966, he scored a combined 40 points against

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and Dartmouth. Shortly after that, he had a 28-point game against Saint Peter's. A shoulder injury reduced his performance later in the year but did not stop him from scoring in double figures in all but two games this season. Senior

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Steve Sullivan played in all 23 games and scored in double figures in 21 of them, scoring 20 or more points ten times. In the season opener, he scored 33 points and pulled down 17 rebounds against

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; later in the year he had 26 points and 23 rebounds against

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, and in the last home game of the year, he had an 18-point, 16-rebound effort against

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. For the season, he averaged 12 rebounds per game, a school record at the time. Senior

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Frank Hollendoner frequently got into foul trouble, but he shot 69% from the field and averaged 11.1 points per game for the season. He scored 22 points against

and scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds against

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. Sophomore forward Jim Supple joined the varsity team after a high-scoring season with the freshman team the previous year. He played in all 23 games and, although he often got in foul trouble, he scored in double figures in 15 of them. His season high was a 23-point performance against

. In the 1964–65 season, Georgetown had started strong, raising hopes for a post-season tournament berth, but lost seven of its final 10 games to drop out of consideration for the post-season. Two years later, the 1966–67 Hoyas followed a similar pattern, starting 9–3 but losing eight of their final 11 games to finish with a record of 12–11 and no post-season play. The team was not ranked in the Top 20 of the Associated Press Poll or

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Roster

From the 1958–59 season through the 1967–68 season, Georgetown players wore even-numbered jerseys for home games and odd-numbered ones for away games; for example, a player would wear No. 10 at home and No. 11 on the road. Players are listed below by the even numbers they wore at home.

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Bernard White joined the team this season as the first

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recruit in Georgetown men's basketball history. He had played for

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the previous season, but George Mason's men's basketball program did not receive

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(NCAA) recognition until 1967, so White retained the then-maximum three years of NCAA varsity eligibility when he joined the Hoyas. Source

Rankings

The team was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll at any time.

1966–67 schedule and results

Sources2012-2013 Georgetown Men's Basketball Media Guide, p. 62.
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References

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