1991–92Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Big East regular season co-champions
NCAA tournament, second round
Conference	Big East Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 18
AP	No. 22
Record	22–10 (12–6 Big East)
Head coach	John Thompson (20th season)
Assistant coaches	Craig Esherick (10th season) Mike Riley (10th season) Mel Reid (2nd season)
Captains	Alonzo Mourning Ronny Thompson
Home arena	Capital Centre
Seasons ← 1990–91 1992–93 →

The1991–92 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team representedGeorgetown University in the1991–92NCAA Division Icollege basketball season.John Thompson, coached them in his 20th season as head coach. They played their home games at theCapital Centre inLandover, Maryland. They were members of theBig East Conference and finished the season with a record of 22–10, 12–6 in Big East play, sharing the regular-season conference championship withSeton Hall andSt. John's. Their record earned them a bye in the first round of the1992 Big East men's basketball tournament, and they advanced to the final before losing toSyracuse. They were the No. 6 seed in the West Region of the1992 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament – the last of 14 consecutive GeorgetownNCAA tournament appearances – and advanced to the second round before losing to West Region No. 3 seedFlorida State. They were ranked No. 22 in the season's finalAssociated Press Poll and No. 18 in the finalCoaches' Poll.

Georgetown's starting lineup of seniorcenter and team co-captainAlonzo Mourning, sophomoreforwardRobert Churchwell, senior forward Brian Kelly, sophomorepoint guard Joey Brown, and freshmanguard Irvin Church was so talented that observers picked the Hoyas as a co-favorite to win the 1991-92 Big East regular-season title. WithDikembe Mutombo having graduated in May 1991, Mourning was now Georgetown's sole "big man," and he led the team, starting and scoring in double figures in all 32 games and collecting rebounds in double figures in 22 games. He led the team in scoring in 27 games and in rebounding in 26.^[2][3]

In the first game of the year, Mourning had his second careertriple double with 32 points, 14 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots againstHawaii Loa in theHawaii Loa Classic. Over the next two weeks, he fell just short of two more triple doubles, with 21 points, 22 rebounds, and nine blocked shots againstDelaware State and 25 points, 14 rebounds, and five blocked shots in only 27 minutes of play against theUniversity of the District of Columbia. He fell just short of a triple double again in the first Big East game of the year, with 24 points, 15 rebounds, and eight blocked shots againstVillanova at the Capital Centre on January 4, 1992. He followed that up with 28 points and 12 rebounds againstProvidence and 23 points and 11 rebounds againstSeton Hall. In the 16 Big East games Georgetown played during the regular season, Mourning averaged 20.7 points and 10.9 rebounds a game, and his expertise in shootingfree throws was an important part of the Hoyas' offense. His career-high 38-point performance in a double-overtime loss atBoston College included scoring on a school-record 18 free throws as he shot 69.2% from the free throw line in 26 attempts. Three days later, in a rematch in which the Hoyas upset Villanova, he again almost had a triple double against the Wildcats, scoring 26 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, and blocking seven shots as well as shooting 14-for-15 (93.3%) from the free-throw line.^[2]

Churchwell's sophomore season was virtually a repeat of his freshman year. He shot 49% from the field overall and 38% fromthree-point range, and he made 120field goals and had 153 rebounds, an increase of six and one, respectively, from the year before. Although he had only one shot per 3 minutes 32 seconds of playing time, he averaged 9.6 points per game.^[4]

Brown improved his shooting from the field, from 23.1% the previous year to 35.2%, but made some of his biggest contributions on defense. On February 19, 1992, 25th-ranked Georgetown faced 21st-rankedConnecticut at the Capital Centre in an important game for the Hoyas for their chances both for a Big East regular season championship and for anNCAA tournament bid. The game was tied 58–58 with 13 seconds left to play and the Huskies holding the ball for the final shot when Brown stole a Connecticut pass and made a layup at the buzzer to give the Hoyas a 60–58 last-second upset win. At 17th-rankedSyracuse four days later, Brown scored 23 points to lead Georgetown to another upset win. AgainstPittsburgh at the Capital Centre in the regular-season finale, he had a 17-point effort in a win that tied Georgetown withSeton Hall andSt. John's for the regular-season Big East championship.^[5][6]

After a bye in the first round, Georgetown defeatedMiami in the quarterfinals of the1992 Big East tournament and St. John's in the semifinals. In the final game, the Hoyas met archrival Syracuse. The Hoyas fell 11 points behind the Orangemen in the second half, but the Hoyas, led by Mourning's 23 points, came back to tie the game with 24 seconds left to play. Unfortunately for the Hoyas, Syracuse senior forwardDave Johnson connected on a shot with four seconds left to give the Orangemen a 54–52 win. It was Syracuse's first defeat of Georgetown in a Big East tournament championship game in four tries. Mourning scored 76 points and 22 rebounds during the tournament, averaging 25.3 points per game, and was named the tournament'sMost Valuable Player, becoming the first player ever named the Big East's Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Tournament MVP in the same season, and only the second Tournament MVP from a team that did not win the tournament.^[2][3][6]

The Hoyas were the No. 6 seed in the West Region of the1992 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament – the last of 14 consecutive Georgetown NCAA Tournament appearances. In the first round, they defeatedSouth Florida, with Mourning scoring 21 points and pulling down 11 rebounds. They met the West Region No. 3 seed, 20th-rankedFlorida State, in the second round. The Seminoles largely denied Mourning the ball, and in the last game of his collegiate career he had only three rebounds and seven field goal attempts, making four of them. Meanwhile, Florida State junior point guardSam Cassell scored 19 points and sophomore forwardDoug Edwards had 15 points and 16 rebounds, and the Seminoles defeated the Hoyas 78–68 in one of the biggest wins in Florida State basketball history. It was the third straight season that Georgetown had been eliminated in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Hoyas were ranked No. 22 in the season's finalAssociated Press Poll and No. 18 in the finalCoaches' Poll.^[2]

During the season, Mourning had averaged 21.3 points, 10.7 rebounds, and 5.0 blocked shots per game, shooting 59.5% from the field and 75.9% from the free-throw line. He graduated in May 1992 as one of the greatest players in Georgetown men's basketball history. During his four-year career, he had averaged 16.6 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 3.8 blocked shots per game. Still, he had never led his team to aFinal Four appearance, even with Dikembe Mutombo as his teammate the first three seasons. This was largely because an unusually high number of scholarship players – 11 of 23 – transferred from Georgetown between1987–1988 and1992–1993, preventing the team from building a core of veterans to play with its two dominating centers. Without that core of veterans, the Mourning-Mutombo teams were unable to replicate the success of the veteran-filledPatrick Ewing teams of the early 1980s, which had reached the Final Four – and indeed the national championship game – three times in four seasons.^[3][7]

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Senior guardRonny Thompson was the son of head coach John Thompson, Jr.

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