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#22

Georgetown Basketball

Big East basketball is here! But it’s not the champions from UConn, or St. John’s, or Marquette. Although, I really wanted to include Marquette because their uniforms are awesome it’s just they change so much it’s hard to pin down which one is iconic from their current set.

Many athletic programs and franchises have tried to make gray look cool this century although no one has pulled it off or pioneered it for such a long time quite like Georgetown basketball.

Through the early 1980’s, Georgetown wore pretty basic uniforms of white at home and an azure-like blue set on the road. Then, in the 10th season of the John Thompson coaching era coinciding with the sophomore year of big man Patrick Ewing, the program unveiled sharp all gray home uniforms with dark blue and white secondary colors.

A couple years later, they’d win Thompson’s only National Championship in these uniforms and cement the gray as an all-time classic college basketball look.

For the 1993 season, Georgetown took it even further switching to “Hoyas” on the gray jersey while also introducing the now-iconic kente cloth pattern throughout the uniform. This happened the year before Allen Iverson took the sport by storm after arriving in Washington, D.C.

Georgetown has changed their look up quite a bit in the years since, even dropping the gray uniforms from 1998 through 2005. Since then, gray has remained in the rotation as the standard home uniform although the program has worn as many as 7 different sets in a single year from a variety of colors.