• Maryland welcomes Georgetown to campus for the first time since 1973 when the two programs face off in the inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on ESPN2.
• The Gavitt Tipoff Games is an annual early-season series played between the two conferences and named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and basketball visionary. Beginning in 2015 and scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games will be played on four consecutive days in the first full week of the college basketball campaign. The series will span eight years, with games played at home sites.
• Maryland leads the all-time series, 36-27. The last time the two schools met was Nov. 30, 2008 in the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla. Prior to that meeting, the Terps defeated Georgetown, 76-66, in the NCAA Tournament on March 22, 2001 in Anaheim, Calif. The last time the two schools played locally Maryland captured an 84-83 overtime victory on November 26, 1993 at the Capital Center in Landover, Md. The last time the Terps played Georgetown in College Park was on Dec. 11, 1973 – a 115-83 Maryland victory. Maryland and Georgetown played each other every season from 1947 to 1976.
Scouting Georgetown
• Georgetown fell to Radford, 82-80, in double overtime in its season opener Saturday at Verizon Center. Bradley Hayes led the Hoyas with 19 points and 12 rebounds.
• Georgetown finished the 2014-15 season with a 22-11 record, including a 12-6 mark in the BIG EAST Conference, and returns two starters and nine letterwinners. The Hoyas entered the season receiving votes in both the Associated Press Top 25 and the USA Today Coaches’ poll. The Hoyas were picked to finish in second place in the BIG EAST by the league’s coaches.
• Senior guard and 2015 Bob Cousy Award watch list nominee D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera was selected to the Preseason All-BIG EAST First Team. He was named the league’s Preseason Player of the Year in 2014.
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gavitt was Born in Westerly, Rhode Island, Gavitt graduated from Dartmouth College in 1959, where he was a member of the 1959-1960 varsity basketball team, the last Dartmouth basketball team to win the Ivy League championship. He spent two years as an assistant basketball coach at Worcester Academy before becoming an assistant coach at Providence under the legendary Joe Mullaney in 1962. He left in 1966 to become assistant coach and then head coach at his alma mater before taking over for Mullaney at Providence in 1969.
Under his ten-year tenure, the Friars advanced to the postseason eight straight years (1971–78; five NCAA appearances, 1972-’74, ’77-’78, and three NIT appearances, 1971, ’75, 76). In 1973, Gavitt’s team made it to the Final Four for the first time in school history.
he coached ernie d and was a very close frind of garyh williams. gavitt died in 2011
· 11/12/2019