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The 1947–48 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1947-48 NCAA Division I college basketball season. Elmer Ripley coached it in his ninth season as head coach, the second season of his third stint at the helm. The team was an independent and for the first time played its home games at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C. It finished with a record of 13-15 and had no post-season play. ==Season recap== The 1946-47 team had won 19 games, and all five of its starters returned this year, including forward Andy Kostecka, a star of the 1942-43 team and – after World War II military service – of the 1946-47 team. Hopes were high that the 1947-48 squad would take the Hoyas back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1943, when Ripley had coached them to the national final in their only tournament appearance thus far. The team won its first six games, with Kostecka averaging 22 points per game during the first four, one of which was an overtime win over St. John's at Madison Square Garden in New York City - Georgetowns only win over the Redmen in 17 games played between 1931 and 1973. Kostecka suffered a leg injury in the fifth game, against Virginia Tech, and missed the sixth and seventh games of the season.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 25. Andy Kostecka )〕 After a 6-1 start, the Hoyas embarked on a road trip on December 24, 1947, that took them to six games spread across Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The trip was controversial because of its length, the tight schedule of games – including four games in five nights requiring 300 miles (483 km) of travel – and the requirement for the players to be on the road during Christmas, but Ripley believed that it would allow the Georgetown program to gain national recognition by playing Louisville, Notre Dame, and Saint Louis. The trip, which lasted through January 5, 1948, wore the players down; Kostecka, for example, had averaged 17 points per game before the trip but managed only half that during it, although his 11 points against Notre Dame in the last game of the trip made him Georgetowns top scorer in history. Georgetown lost all six games to fall to 6-7 on the season. Following the trip, the ''Washington Times-Herald'' newspaper reported dissension between Ripley and Kostecka over the trip; both denied it, but Kostecka was dismissed from the team after the article appeared.〔 With top scorer Kostecka off the team, Georgetown struggled through its next 10 games in a tough national schedule, winning only three of them. Senior guard Dan Kraus, like Kostecka a star of the successful 1942-43 and 1946-47 teams, had been a defensive specialist during his career, but he stepped into the breech on offense, scoring 14 against New York University, 12 at Penn State, and 13 at Villanova.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 26. Dan Kraus )〕 Junior guard Tommy O'Keefe scored 50 points over one three-game stretch and in double figures nine times, including 14 against Penn State and 20 against George Washington, and ended the season as the Hoyas leading scorer.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: The Top 100: 46. Tom O'Keefe )〕 Falling to 9-14 with five games to play, Georgetown managed to win four of the remaining games to finish with a record of 13-15. The teams disappointing final record meant no post-season play. The unremarkable 1947-48 season heralded the beginning of a mostly undistinguished quarter-century of men's basketball at Georgetown. Although the team would appear in the National Invitation Tournament in 1953 and 1970, between the 1947-48 season and the end of the 1971-1972 season, Georgetown would have an overall record under .500, and its total of 296 wins during those 25 seasons would be the lowest among the 32 Catholic universities playing Division I college basketball in the United States.〔(The Georgetown Basketball History Project: A Glimpse Into the Future )〕 It would have no NCAA Tournament appearances during these seasons; in fact, after appearing in the NCAA Tournament in 1943, it would not make the tournament again until 1975. 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「1947–48 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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