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The 1926–27 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1926-27 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John O'Reilly coached it in his 11th and last season as head coach.〔(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 )〕 It finished the season with a record of 5-4. ==Season recap== During the mid-1920s, the Georgetown men's basketball program was struggling to survive.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 76. Bob Nork )〕 Faculty members opposed players missing classes for road games.〔 Furthermore, 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 limiting Georgetown to a very limited road schedule between the 1918-19 season and this season – often limited to an annual trip to Annapolis, Maryland, to play at Navy and sometimes a single trip to New York or Pennsylvania to play schools there – averaging no more than three road games a year in order to keep travel expenses and missed classes to a minimum. The 1926-27 team played only nine games; its only road game was a visit to Annapolis to play Navy and its planned three-game road trip to New York City at the end of the season was cancelled. It had a winning season in its limited schedule, opening 4-0, then losing four straight, and winning its final game to finish at 5-4.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Ryan Gymnasium Years )〕 Junior forward Bob Nork had emerged as a top scorer previous season, and he starred again this year. He played in all nine games, playing a major role in almost all of them, and scored 85 points – almost twice as many as the teams second-leading scorer – averaging 9.4 points per game.〔 Head coach John O'Reilly retired after this season, having coached Georgetown men's basketball for eleven of the past thirteen seasons. He had posted an overall record of 87-47 and had overseen many of the teams early triumphs, including a 52-0 record at home in Ryan Gymnasium from the last game of the 1916-17 season to the middle of the 1923-24 season that saw the defeat of top-rated visitors such as North Carolina (twice), Georgia Tech, and Kentucky, as well as 15 of the 19 consecutive Georgetown victories over crosstown rival George Washington between 1915 and 1924. He had simultaneously served as head coach of Georgetowns baseball and track teams, and he remained with the school to coach these teams until 1931.〔 Although the team would continue to use Ryan Gymnasmium as a practice facility, this season was its last as the Hoyas home court. When new head coach Elmer Ripley took charge the following season, Georgetown Athletic Director Lou Little allowed him to schedule home games off campus for the first time since the 1913-1914 season in order to generate greater revenue to pay for travel expenses. The Hoyas would play their home games off campus for 22 seasons until the opening of McDonough Arena for the 1951-52 season brought home games back to campus.〔 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「1926–27 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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