2013–14 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team

The 2013–14 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by John Thompson III, were members of the Big East Conference, and played their home games at the Verizon Center, with one home game at McDonough Gymnasium. The team started the season against the Oregon Ducks in the Armed Forces Classic at Camp Humphreys near Pyeongtaek, South Korea, and played in the 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-Off.

2013–14 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
NIT, second round
ConferenceBig East
Record18–15 (8–10 Big East)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Kevin Broadus (5th season)
  • Tavaras Hardy (1st season)
  • Kevin Sutton (1st season)
Captains
  • Nate Lubick (2nd year)
  • Markel Starks (2nd year)
Home arenaVerizon Center
McDonough Gymnasium
2013–14 Big East men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 6 Villanova162 .889295  .853
No. 16 Creighton144 .778278  .771
Providence108 .5562312  .657
Xavier108 .5562113  .618
St. John's108 .5562013  .606
Marquette99 .5001715  .531
Georgetown810 .4441815  .545
Seton Hall612 .3331717  .500
Butler414 .2221417  .452
DePaul315 .1671221  .364
2014 Big East tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll
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This was Georgetown's first season as a member of the newly organized Big East Conference. It had been a founding member of the original Big East Conference in the 1979-80 season and had remained a member for 34 seasons. However, that conference's increasingly unstable membership and uncertain future and what Georgetown and the conference's other basketball-only members believed to be its focus on college football at the expense of the interests of its basketball programs led Georgetown and six other Big East members (DePaul, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's, and Villanova) to leave the conference after the conclusion of the 2012–13 season. In 2013 they joined Butler, Creighton, and Xavier in forming a new Big East Conference. (The original Big East Conference then added new members of its own and renamed itself the American Athletic Conference for the 2013–14 season.) One immediate effect of the conference realignment was that for the first time since the 1977-78 season the Hoyas did not play Syracuse, Georgetown's great rival throughout the original Big East Conference's 34-season history; Syracuse had itself left the original Big East in 2013 to join the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2013–14 season.

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