Having the Best Freshmen Isn’t Everything, and That’s Relevant For Georgetown Fans Photo by John Picker/The Georgetown Voice With Saturday’s humbling loss to UConn, the end to another season of Georgetown men’s basketball is in sight. These Hoyas deserve to be celebrated in another column, not only because they battled through internal COVID-19 issues to cobble together a more or less complete season during a pandemic, but because they did so with a certain chutzpah and cohesion you wouldn’t expect from a group that’s been together for a matter of months. You could argue that this team has the most tangible identity of any of head coach Patrick Ewing’s squads to date. They seemed to be playing loose, they seemed to know the product wouldn’t always be pretty, and they were eminently likable. Again, this group has been together for no time at all, but they appeared to be the Ewing-era team most committed to executing an X’s-and-O’s scheme. I have to use qualifiers here – “seemed,” “appeared,” and the like – because it’s possible the departures of Akinjo, McClung, & Co. still sting and I’m simply imagining improvement. And I prefer to use the first-person here because the student-program relationship feels more intense at a smaller school where there’s no FBS football team and you (used to) constantly see these guys grabbing lunch behind you or studying one table over in the library like any other student.