This forum is hosted for free by Boardhost. Create your own free forum!
1 of 1- GW0509
- Administrator
Offline 
- Registered: 7/22/2019
- Posts: 3,160
20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
Anyone else surprised/disappointed that the school has not done anything to honor that team? Granted, it holds a very special place in my heart as it was my Freshman year, but it would seem like we’d want to honor a team that ranked as high as #6 and was the last team to win a tournament game.
- Gwmayhem
- Buff & Blue Club
Offline
- Registered: 7/22/2019
- Posts: 3,059
Re: 20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
Far more disappointment than surprise.
Not a great look to throw a coach and his team under the bus only to honor them 20 years later.
- GW Alum Abroad
- Buff & Blue Club
Offline
- Registered: 7/22/2019
- Posts: 1,485
Re: 20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
It is the 50th anniversary of the Smith Center (a bigger deal for the University at-large). You can only sell so much nostalgia. The team´s win over UNC-C was in the building´s "top 50 moments" countdown. Not sure which bus the team was thrown under.
- DC Native
- Buff & Blue Club
Offline
- Registered: 11/22/2019
- Posts: 768
Re: 20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
Jim Larranaga and Tony Skinn were on the Junks this morning talking about the 20th anniversary celebration Mason is having tonight of their Final Four run. Its always irritated me that the best season GW men's basketball has had since the 1950s has always been overshadowed by another local team reaching the Final Four that same year...
Also, Mason is currently 9-1 after losing 91% of their scoring from last year...
Last edited by DC Native (12/12/2025 9:06 am)
- Gwmayhem
- Buff & Blue Club
Offline
- Registered: 7/22/2019
- Posts: 3,059
Re: 20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
GW Alum Abroad wrote:
It is the 50th anniversary of the Smith Center (a bigger deal for the University at-large). You can only sell so much nostalgia. The team´s win over UNC-C was in the building´s "top 50 moments" countdown. Not sure which bus the team was thrown under.
Having to have to read about Omargate the morning after completing a 26-1/16-0 regular season without anyone at GW putting up any kind of defense. Georgetown had a player from a questionable prep school too but not an ounce of Post coverage about this. Nor did GW indicate that all of its players were cleared to play by the NCAA, or that plenty of other schools had players from similar situations.
Our university president indicating that "if we knew then what we know now about Omar Williams, we never would have admitted him." About a player who graduated college in four years.
The subsequent overreaction from Rice Hall to make future academic standards so high that KH could not bring in several players he wanted due to academics, most notably Jeremy Wise.
GW took what could have been a very positive story about a young man who was mistreated academically at prep school who would then go on to be an integral part of a championship team (conference tournament followed by regular season) while graduating college in four years and instead chose to make it a public relations nightmare.
That bus.
- porter71
- Buff & Blue Club
Offline
- Registered: 7/22/2019
- Posts: 162
Re: 20th Anniversary of the 2005-2006 Team
As I've always said, GW never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Also, if I remember correctly the player from Georgetown went to the prep school that Omar did. Hoya Paranoia indeed.