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The 1945–46 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1945-46 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Ken Engles coached it in his only season as head coach. It played its home games on the campus of The Catholic University of America at Brookland Gymnasium in Washington, D.C., the only Georgetown team to play home games there with the exception of the 1946-47 team, which played four games there the following season.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Home Courts )〕 ==Season recap== Georgetown had made its only post-season tournament appearance thus far in the 1942-43 season, when it advanced to the final of the 1943 NCAA Tournament. However, the school had suspended all of its athletic programs later in 1943 for the duration of World War II, prompting head coach Elmer Ripley to leave to coach at Columbia and ending the collegiate careers of many of its players, while other Georgetown players who retained eligibility transferred to other schools to continue their collegiate basketball careers or entered military service, planning to return to Georgetown and resume college basketball there after the war.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Believe It...Or Not )〕 Georgetown had no basketball program during the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons. After World War II ended in August 1945, the school resumed athletic competition and began to put together a varsity mens basketball team for the 1945-46 season. Ripley had left Columbia after coaching there for two years but had committed to coach Notre Dame in 1945-46, and those Georgetown players from the 1942-43 team retaining eligibility to play had either transferred elsewhere or had not yet returned to Georgetown from military service.〔 As result of all of this, the team Georgetown fielded for the season was unusual. With Ripley unavailable, senior forward Ken Engles – an older player who had played on the 1940-41〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1940-41 to 1949-1950 )〕 and 1941-42〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1940-41 to 1949-1950 )〕 teams before leaving school after the United States entered World War II – had returned this season for his third and final year of eligibility, and he was pressed into service as head coach, becoming the only player-coach in Georgetown men's basketball history. Aside from Engles, none of the players had prior varsity experience, and only one of them – freshman forward Ed Benigni – played on the team the following season when Ripley returned to coach Georgetown.〔〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1940-41 to 1949-1950 )〕〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Rosters 1940-41 to 1949-1950 )〕 The virtually all-walk-on 1945-46 team played an abbreviated schedule,〔 finishing with a record of 11-9 and having no postseason play. 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「1945–46 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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