ROSTER: Georgetown Releases Roster, Twitter is ‘Talkin’ ’Bout Practice’

Providence Coach plays ignorant of Iverson’s college ball

Today may be just the first official day for college basketball practice (the season starts in 42 days), but Big East Twitter is already in mid-season form. On Monday, Kim English, head coach of the Providence Friars attempted to adopt Allen Iverson’s famous practice quote on X and quickly found himself surrounded by fans of the Georgetown Hoyas. It got so bad that he had to make up a desperate lie, arguing that he didn’t know Iverson was a Hoya until 2011. Horse hockey!

Smelling something funny, Hoyas fans quickly pointed out that English “would’ve crawled backwards from Baltimore to be a Hoya” and the Providence coach quipped back “And then I saw how empty the games were…” Hilarious. The former George Mason coach has jokes!

While that made for some nice pot stirring, it’s all a bunch of crap for any alleged DMV-area basketball player to have not known about Iverson and Georgetown—let alone the solid rankings and crowds of the early JT3 era.

Born in Baltimore, English played high school ball at Randallstown in Maryland before a post-grad year at Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and committed to Missouri in 2007. The Phone Booth was jammed in those days.

What’s funnier, (a) that a head coach in the BIG EAST admits he was deficient in conference history or (b) that an alleged Baltimore native, born in 1988, was oblivious to Allen Iverson’s back story? Insane.

The most likely truth is that English knows Georgetown’s history by heart and is having a bit of fun stirring the pot. As Ed Cooley might say, “Get us now. Beat us while you can.”

To cap off a wild day on X/Twitter, GUHoyas posted the official Georgetown Hoyas Men’s Basketball Roster!

While no one is unexpectedly missing, we do see Thomas Sorber’s name misspelled. I guess we can’t ask for perfection, that would be silly.

Here is the roster:

• 0 Jayden Fort 6-9 200 F Fr. Washington, D.C. / Jackson-Reed
• 2 Malik Mack 6-2 175 G So. Oxon Hill, Md. / St. John’s College High School [D.C.] Harvard
• 4 Caleb Williams 6-7 230 F Fr. Washington, D.C. / Sidwell Friends
• 5 Micah Peavy 6-8 220 G/F Gr. Cibolo, Texas / Duncanville TCU
• 7 Drew McKenna 6-8 220 F Fr. Laurel, Md. / Glenelg Country School
• 10 Jayden Epps 6-2 190 G Jr. Norfolk, Va. / Combine Academy [N.C.] Illinois
• 11 Curtis Williams Jr. 6-6 205 G So. Detroit, Mich. / Brother Rice Louisville
• 14 Austin Montgomery 6-6 205 F Jr. New Orleans, La. / Newman LSU
• 15 Hashem Asadallah 6-2 189 G So. Jabriya, Kuwait / American School of Kuwait
• 20 Drew Fielder 6-11 235 F/C So. Boise, Idaho / Southern California Academy [Calif.]
• 22 Mason Moses 6-6 202 G Fr. New York, N.Y. / Brewster Academy [N.H.]
• 23 Jordan Burks 6-9 205 F So. Decatur, Ala. / Hillcrest Prep with OE Kentucky
• 25 Julius Halaifonua 7-0 270 C Fr. Auckland, New Zealand / NBA Global Academy [Australia]
• 30 Michael Van Raaphorst 6-2 210 G Fr. Chatham, N.J. / Delbarton
• 34 Seal Diouf 6-9 255 C Fr. Gouda, Netherlands / The Dunn School [Calif.]
• 35 Thomas Sorber 6-10 255 F/C Fr. Trenton, N.J. / Archbishop Ryan [Pa.]
• 45 Kayvaun Mulready 6-4 220 G Fr. Worcester, Mass. / Worcester Academy

Cooley and the Hoyas have plenty of work to do to turn the program around, but it’s coming. Now that we have an official roster, a good next step might be setting expectations of an identity.

Here are some other links and news:

The Tweet: It’s Day 1 Of The College Basketball Season And Kim English Is Already Publicly Making Fun Of Georgetown For Having Zero Fans | Barstool

Today is a glorious day for some of us. The day college basketball practices start. The time we can start convincing ourselves this is our year, the time we get ready for the long regular season only to have our hearts ripped out in the NCAA Tournament. Kim English channeled Allen Iverson because, well, the man loves to use practice quotes. Only problem there is you’re talking about Providence’s coach talking about a Georgetown player. That’s something you can’t do with any Big East school let alone the war between Georgetown and Providence the last year+ with Ed Cooley leaving…

Georgetown is known for having an empty arena. Nobody shows up to their games, especially when they stink. It’s part of the story with Georgetown and quite frankly I love that we have a head coach on day 1 of practice engaging in this stuff. It’s what makes the Big East the best conference in college basketball. We need the Big East. We need all the dumb fights, we need the hate, we need the history even if it’s not the old Big East. I want the ridiculous stories like Big East twitter members making Marquette put out a statement that Tyler Kolek can in fact read. I want coaches in this league to make fun of other programs. I want Rick Pitino talking about killing himself if he loses a game by 1 in a press conference. It’s the beauty of college basketball when people want to bitch about how the sport is ruined.

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Jayden Epps is back, which is like a double-edged sword. Epps is a dynamite – albeit inefficient at times – scorer who can create for himself and others. He wasted plenty of possessions last season for the Hoyas, but he also carried their offense. Defensively, though, he might as well be wearing a matador uniform and holding a red cape.

Cooley aimed for upside in the portal with three of his recruits. Harvard transfer Malik Mack, Kentucky transfer Jordan Burks, and Louisville transfer Curtis Williams all carry untapped potential. Mack is the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and led the conference in assists while ranking third in scoring. He’s an undeniable talent, but he must be good and translate right away for Georgetown to even sniff competence this season.

Georgetown Athletics Mourns the Passing of Lorry Michel | GUHoyas

The Georgetown Athletics community mourns the passing of Lorry Michel, who has been part of the Georgetown University Athletics Department since 1977. Michel passed away on Tuesday, September 17 at the age of 71 following a long battle with cancer. Inducted into the Georgetown Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013, Michel was the longtime men’s basketball athletic trainer and even had stints as an athletic trainer in international competition, including the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.

Michel began her career at Georgetown as an assistant trainer in 1977, working with all student-athletes. Four years later, she became the head trainer for men’s basketball at the request of Head Coach John Thompson Jr. During the first four years in Michel’s new position, the Hoyas advanced to three national championship title games and captured the championship trophy in 1984. For more than 30 years, she labored tirelessly to keep all Hoya men’s basketball players healthy and ready to compete, day in and day out.