Yeah, I'm that old.  That was my junior year.  The highest basketball moment in those years --  the Hoyas played the Pete Maravich-led LSU Tigers in the NIT. Maravich had scored 1304 points that season (more than any Georgetown player had scored in their career.  Georgetown held Maravich to only twenty points (his average was 44.2.) But LSU eked out an 83-82 victory.

And 1982:

Case of Mistaken Identity Costs Georgetown Dearly." Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1982

With 16 seconds remaining in the final, North Carolina took a 63-62 lead on a Michael Jordan basket. The Hoyas had one last chance to win. However, Guard Fred Brown threw a pass that was intercepted by Tar Heel James Worthy and the game was over. Coach Thompson responded by hugging the disconsolate Brown. Interest in playing for Georgetown soared after the championship game, with many potential players stating that the reason they wanted to play for Georgetown was the way that Coach Thompson had treated Brown. Brown came to see the pass as "a blessing in disguise." He was quoted in an April 3, 1988 Washington Post article as saying: "When I threw that pass away, it afforded me the opportunity to realize that people still supported me, that life went on . . ."

I have no connections with Georgetown except for its proximity to me - and that I and two of my children were born in its hospital, but close enough.  Think I'll root for G'town all the way.

Way to go Georgetown!