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The 1921–22 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1921-22 NCAA Division I college basketball season. With John O'Reilly unable to coach due to illness, James Colliflower – a 1906 Georgetown graduate who played for Georgetown while at law school and then had coached the team for three seasons from 1911 to 1914 – returned to coach the team for one more season without pay.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches )〕 Georgetown was an independent and played its home games at Ryan Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕 and finished the season with a record of 11-3. ==Season recap== On-campus Ryan Gymnasium, where the Hoyas had played their home games since the 1914-15 season, had no seating, accommodating fans on a standing-room only-basis on an indoor track above the court. This precluded the accommodation of significant crowds, providing the self-sustaining Basketball Association with little revenue with which to fund the teams travel expenses and generally limiting Georgetown to an annual trip to Annapolis, Maryland, to play at Navy and trips to New York to play schools there, averaging no more than three road games a year from the 1918-19 season to the 1926-27 season in order to keep travel to a minimum.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Ryan Gymnasium Years )〕 The 1921-22 team did not even visit Navy, but did make a trip to New York and New Jersey for three games at the end of the season. Otherwise, its only road game was a trip across town to play at George Washington. The Hoyas home winning streak at Ryan Gymnasium reached 44 games at the end of this season, dating back to a victory against Bucknell on the last day of the 1916-17 season; it would reach 52 before finally coming to an end during the 1923-24 season. A highlight of the home season at Ryan was a major upset when Georgetown defeated highly rated Kentucky, which had won the first Southern Conference championship the previous season.〔〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1910s Seasons )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: 1920s Seasons )〕 Georgetown also defeated crosstown rival George Washington twice this season, giving the Hoyas a 16-game winning streak against George Washington – 11 of the wins at Ryan Gymnasium – dating back to 1915.〔〔〔 Senior forward Jack Flavin was the teams second-highest scorer. An excellent shooter, he played in 13 games and scored 93 points for a 7.2-point-per-game average for the season.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 82. Jack Flavin )〕 Senior guard Andrew "Andy" Zazzali saw reduced playing time this season because of injuries and because Georgetown chose to put younger players on the court. He nonetheless played in 13 games, scoring 38 points for the season and averaging 2.9 points per game. He made a running jump shot late in the Kentucky game that helped in the upset of the Wildcats, and that helped him win back a starting role in the later part of the season.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 84. Andrew Zazzali )〕 In this era, each team was allowed to designate a single player to shoot all of its free throws, and junior forward Paul Florence was that player this season for Georgetown.〔 He scored 18 points in the season opener against St. Joseph's and led the team in scoring for the year, appearing in 12 games, scoring 136 points, and averaging 11.3 points per game for the season. He played a key defensive role in the upset of Kentucky.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 91. Paul Florence )〕 The team began the season with an 11-game winning streak, but lost all three games of its season-ending road trip to finish at 11-3. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1921–22 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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