The Knicks are laboring through a tough season, but their biggest franchise legend is suffering through one that is going even worse.
Patrick Ewing’s Georgetown Hoyas fell to UConn on Sunday, marking a program-record 18th straight loss. The loss seals Georgetown’s fate of a last-place finish in the Big East, the first time the school will finish in the conference basement since the Big East was formed over four decades ago.
Ewing, after leading his alma mater to an improbable conference tournament title in Madison Square Garden just a year ago, now suddenly sees his job in jeopardy, and all he can do is hope that he will have a chance to right the ship next year.
“Of course, I want to be back here,” Ewing said after the loss to the Huskies. “But in this position and this job, whatever happens will happen. I'm hoping that I'll be back and doing something that I love at a place that I love and getting us back to being the king of the hill.”
Ewing is already in Georgetown lore forever after his playing days led to him being taken first overall by the Knicks in 1985, but as a coach, his Hoyas are now 0-17 in conference play, and Georgetown is beginning to play in front of some sparse home crowds.
The few that have been showing up could be seeing Ewing’s final days as Georgetown’s head coach, but he hopes he will be given another chance to turn things around as quickly as they flatlined over the past year.
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