Georgetown Adds Rutgers Transfer
Seeking to address depth in the backcourt, Georgetown has added 6-4 guard Jeremiah Williams, late of Rutgers.The announcement was made on Williams' social media account, with the headline "Last Ride".One of the last of the COVID-19 era guards still in college basketball, Williams makes Georgetown his fifth and final stop in a college career that dates to the fall of 2020, where the Chicago native signed with Temple, averaging 9.4 ppg in 37 starts over two seasons. His career took some unfortunate turns thereafter. Transferring to Iowa State, Williams missed the 2022-23 season with an Achilles tear. He transferred to Illinois in May 2023 but transferred a month later to Rutgers. His arrival at Rutgers was halted by an arrest in September 2023 for gambling on college basketball games while enrolled at Iowa State. A total of 17 players across multiple ISU teams and five football staff members were charged, with Williams pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of underage gambling, which carried a $645 fine and a 15 game NCAA suspension for the 2023-24 season. A temporary restraining order filed by Williams was granted and allowed him to join the Scarlet Knights in February 2024, playing 12 games that season. "Williams impressed in his first season as a Scarlet Knight, averaging 12.2 points on 44.4% shooting...during the final 12 games of the campaign," wrote NJ.com. "He was unable to replicate that production this winter, showing significant regression while playing alongside five-star freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey.". Williams averaged 7.0 points and 2.9 points for the season, announcing a transfer at the end of March. He was sought by Nebraska, Xavier, VCU, and George Washington, according to reports. The addition provides further depth to a crowded lineup in the Georgetown backcourt, with two rising sophomores (Malik Mack, Kayvaun Mulready), three other portal arrivals (K.J. Lewis, Langston Love, DeShawn Harris-Smith), and up to four walk-ons (Austin Montgomery, Hashem Asadallah, Michael Van Raaphorst, Mason Moses) all seeking time next season. Williams is not an outside shooter (averaging 26 percent over his prior four seasons) but can provide support where Mack is the only returning ball handler from 2024-25. The basketball office has not commented on the addition.
Fox Sports To Join Streaming App
The Fox Sports networks will be a part of a new streaming service this fall.The new service, "Fox One", will bundle the various Fox cable networks on a streaming app. In a press conference Monday, officials noted that the package will be available free of charge to existing cable customers but that a app-only subscription will be a premium price, so as not to accelerate the loss of cable subscribers which supports Fox News and its other properties.Big East games will be seen on a variety of platforms beginning next fall, including Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Warner Bros Discovery's TNT and TBS cable networks, and NBC's Peacock, a streaming-only service. The Waiting Game
Georgetown's 2025-26 rebuild is highly dependent on Thomas Sorber's NBA draft decision, likely within the next two weeks. Where does he place on various mock drafts?Here's a sample from latest draft predictions:
Men's Basketball Avoids APR Penalty
Georgetown men's basketball narrowly avoided NCAA penalties for multi-year graduation rates, according to NCAA data released Tuesday.ADDITIONAL COVERAGE A team's APR is the total points of a team's roster at a given time divided by the total points. A perfect score is 1000, met by 13 Georgetown teams this past year, but men's basketball scored a four year average of 931, one point above the NCAA cut-off. Four years of Georgetown single-year results among all sports are below. Note that men's rowing, squash, and sailing are not included in that they are not recognized NCAA sports.
For the 2023-24 season, Ed Cooley's first as head coach, Georgetown's single season mark of 911 ranked 347th of 362 NCAA schools among 11 scholarship players last season, five of whom graduated (Bacote, Bristol, Heath, Massoud, Mutombo), three that stayed (Epps, Fielder, McKenna), and three that transferred (Brumbaugh, Cook, Styles). The men's basketball totals on a per year basis are as follows:
The lowest score of any team playing in a major basketball conference? This appears to be DePaul, who posted back to back seasons under 930 following a crushing APR scored last season under former coach Tony Stubblefield. As a result, it is listed as subject for post-season ineligibility, pending appeal. The Big East multi-year results among men's basketball are below:
Sign Of The Times
Final exams conclude this week on the Hilltop, but the days of an undergraduate class of basketball players preparing for graduation have gone the way of the Hoop Club Banquet and the Kenner League.Aside from Ryan Mutombo (C'24), who graduated a year early, none of the players that entered as freshmen in 2021 remained at Georgetown to graduate in 2025:
Report: New Assistant Coach Arriving
A report from journalist Jeff Goodman indicates that veteran Virginia assistant Jason Williford is joining the Georgetown staff.Williford, 51, played at Virginia from 1991 through 1995 before assistant coaching stops at Boston University (2000-05) and American (2005-09). He served 16 seasons in Charlottesville as an assistant coach under Tony Bennett from 2009 through 2025, and was not retained with the arrival of new head coach Ryan Odom. Williford helped recruit the Washington DC area for Bennett and interim coach Ron Sanchez (2024-25) during his tenure there.Williford succeeds former coach Kenny Johnson, who left April 11 for a position last month at Indiana. The basketball office has not commented on the matter. |