Patrick Ewing sounds like he knows his Georgetown tenure is finished

Patrick Ewing (left) and Aminu Mohammed throughout Georgetown's loss to UConn on Feb. 27, 2022
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Patrick Ewing might be teaching his ultimate video games from the Georgetown sidelines.

Ewing’s Hoyas dropped to 0-17 within the Huge East with Sunday’s 86-77 loss to UConn and are set to complete final within the convention for the primary time because the league’s creation in 1979.

That is the previous Knicks middle’s fifth yr teaching his alma mater, and he has not had a lot success, exterior a miracle run to win the Huge East match a yr in the past.

“After all, I wish to be again right here,” stated Ewing on Sunday together with his profession report now standing at 68-81. “However on this place and this job, no matter occurs will occur. I’m hoping that I’ll be again and doing one thing that I like at a spot that I like and getting us again to being the king of the hill.”

That journey would proceed from the very backside. It was a sparse crowd of seven,114 in attendance on Sunday for the college’s Senior Day, based on ESPN.com. Ewing addressed his future for the primary time after the defeat.

Collin Holloway (proper) shoots over Connecticut Huskies ahead Adama Sanogo.

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“After all we’re all upset in the truth that now we have such an enormous dropping streak,” Ewing stated. “That is one thing that I’m not accustomed to. Even within the NBA after we had poor groups, I don’t suppose we’ve misplaced this many in a row, however now we have to maintain preventing. We've to maintain pushing.”

Georgetown finally ends up the season on the highway in opposition to Seton Corridor and Xavier, video games through which they are going to be heavy underdogs. Then the Hoyas will end the season because the No. 11 season within the Huge East match, the place profitable one sport would really feel like a significant upset, not to mention the 4 it took for the staff to succeed in the NCAA Match final yr.

“Carry on believing,” Ewing stated. “You may by no means doubt your self. That’s the mantra I’ve all the time had in my profession, even when issues will not be going effectively for us, and that’s the factor I’m making an attempt to evangelise and train to my staff. Even with this adversity, you all the time must imagine and all the time proceed to do the work that it takes to interrupt out of this.”