The following is a list of Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball head coaches. The Hoyas have had 17 coaches in their 113-year, 111-season history. Ed Cooley is the current head coach.
| Tenure | Coach | Years | Record | Pct. | Conference championships and co-championships[note 1] |
Postseason tournaments[note 2] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-1907 | no coach | 1 | 2-2 | .500 | – | – | Student manager Lou Murray ran the team |
| 1907-1911 | Maurice Joyce | 4 | 32-20 | .615 | – | – | |
| 1911-1914 | James E. Colliflower | 3 | 32-18 | .640 | – | – | Returned for 1921-1922 season |
| 1914-1921 | John O'Reilly | 7 | 65-30 | .684 | – | – | Returned for 1923-1927 seasons |
| 1921-1922 | James E. Colliflower | 1 | 11-3 | .786 | – | – | Previously coached 1911-1914 Overall Georgetown record: 4 seasons, 43-20 (.683) |
| 1922-1923 | John "Jackie" Maloney | 1 | 8-3 | .727 | – | – | |
| 1923-1927 | John O'Reilly | 4 | 22-17 | .563 | – | – | Previously coached 1914-1921 Overall Georgetown record: 11 seasons, 87-47 (.619) |
| 1927-1929 | Elmer Ripley | 2 | 24-6 | .800 | – | – | Returned for 1938-1943, 1946-1949 seasons |
| 1929-1930 | Bill Dudack | 1 | 13-12 | .520 | – | – | |
| 1930-1931 | John Colrick | 1 | 5-16 | .238 | – | – | |
| 1931-1938 | Fred Mesmer | 7 | 53-76 | .411 | none | none | |
| 1938-1943 | Elmer Ripley | 5 | 68–39 | .636 | EIC regular season co-champion 1938-39 |
NCAA 1943; NCAA Final Four 1943 |
Previously coached 1927-1929 seasons Returned for 1946-1949 seasons |
| 1943-1945 | Program suspended for World War II | ||||||
| 1945-1946 | Ken Engles | 1 | 11-9 | .550 | – | none | The only player-coach in the program's history |
| 1946-1949 | Elmer Ripley | 3 | 41–37 | .526 | – | none | Previously coached 1927-1929, 1938-1943 seasons Overall Georgetown record: 10 seasons, 133-82 (.619) |
| 1949-1952 | Francis "Buddy" O'Grady | 3 | 35-36 | .493 | – | none | |
| 1952-1956 | Harry "Buddy" Jeannette | 4 | 49-49 | .500 | – | NIT 1953 | |
| 1956-1960 | Tom Nolan | 4 | 40-49 | .449 | – | none | |
| 1960-1966 | Tommy O'Keefe | 6 | 82-60 | .578 | – | none | |
| 1966-1972 | John "Jack" Magee | 6 | 69-79 | .465 | – | NIT 1970 | |
| 1972-1999 | John Thompson, Jr. | 26+1⁄2 | 596-239 | .715 | ECAC South Region tournament 1975, 1976; ECAC South-Upstate Region tournament 1979; Big East regular season 1979-80, 1983-84, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1991-92; Big East 7 Division regular season 1995-96, 1996–97; Big East Tournament 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989 |
NCAA 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997; NCAA Final Four 1982, 1984, 1985; National championship 1984; NIT 1977, 1978, 1993, 1998 |
Resigned January 8, 1999, with 1998-1999 season underway,[1] |
| 1999-2004 | Craig Esherick | 5+1⁄2 | 103-74 | .597 | none | NCAA 2001; NIT 1999, 2000, 2003; Declined NIT invitation 2002 |
Became head coach during 1998-1999 season after John Thompson, Jr., resigned on January 8, 1999.[1] Fired March 16, 2004. |
| 2004-2017 | John Thompson III | 13 | 278-151 | .648 | Big East regular season 2006-07, 2007–08, 2012–13; Big East Tournament 2007 |
NCAA 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; 2015; NCAA Final Four 2007; NIT 2005, 2009, 2014 |
Fired March 23, 2017. |
| 2017–2023 | Patrick Ewing | 6 | 75–109 | .408 | Big East Tournament 2021 | NCAA 2021 NIT 2019 |
Fired March 9, 2023.[2] |
| 2023–present | Ed Cooley | 1 | 9–23 | .281 | |||
| Totals | 19 coaches | 118 years; 116 seasons |
1721–1152 | .599 | 11 regular season championships and co-championships 11 tournament championships |
31 NCAA appearances 5 NCAA Final Four appearances 1 national championship 13 NIT appearances[note 3] |
Totals through end of 2023-2024 season |
Notes
edit- ^ Georgetown was an independent until 1932. From 1932 to 1939, Georgetown was a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (EIC), which held no end-of-season conference tournament. From 1939 to 1979, Georgetown was again an independent, although from 1975 to 1979 it participated in one of the regional end-of-season ECAC Tournaments organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference – a loosely organized sports federation of Eastern colleges and universities – for ECAC members which played as independents during the regular season; each of these regional tournaments provided its winner with an automatic bid to that year's NCAA tournament in the same manner as conference tournaments of conventional conferences. From 1979 to 2013, Georgetown was a member of the original Big East Conference and participated in its annual end-of-season conference tournament. In 2013, Georgetown left the original Big East Conference and joined a new Big East Conference; it participates in the new Big East's annual end-of-season conference tournament. The new Big East inherited the history and traditions of the original Big East, and the original Big East became the American Athletic Conference in 2013.
- ^ The National Invitation Tournament began play in 1938. The NCAA tournament began play in 1939.
- ^ Does not include the invitation to the 2002 National Invitation Tournament, which Craig Esherick declined.