WASHINGTON – Ahead of the 2025-26 college basketball season, the Georgetown University men's basketball team will play its first of a pair of preseason exhibitions when the squad travels across town to face the George Washington University Revolutionaries on Saturday, October 18. The game is scheduled for a 6 p.m. tipoff at the Charles E. Smith Center in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of the District.
 
FOLLOW THE HOYAS

• Saturday's exhibition can be seen live on the Monumental Sports Network as well as ESPN+ with Byron Kerr calling the play-by-play and Jimmy Patsos providing analysis.
• A link to the live stats can be found on GUHoyas.com.

 
ABOUT THE HOYAS

• The 2025-26 season marks the third year under Head Coach Ed Cooley. In his second season, Cooley guided Georgetown to doubling its wins from the season before and finishing with an overall record of 18-16 and 8-12 in BIG EAST play. The squad earned a bid to the inaugural College Basketball Crown, advancing to the semifinals before falling to eventual Crown Champions Nebraska.
• Following the season, Thomas Sorber and Micah Peavy were both selected in the 2025 NBA Draft. Sorber, a unanimous selection to the BIG EAST All-Freshman Team and tabbed All-BIG EAST Third Team, was drafted in the first round, 15th overall, to the reigning NBA Champions Oklahoma City Thunder. Peavy, an All-BIG EAST First Team selection, was selected by the Washington Wizards before the hometown team traded the draft rights of Peavy to the New Orleans Pelicans. It marked the first time a Hoya duo has been drafted since 2008.
• The Hoyas return 10 players from a year ago, but with only the trio of Malik Mack, Caleb Williams and Kayvaun Mulready seeing playing time in more than 20 games. Mack leads the returners with 12.9 ppg during his sophomore season and a squad-best 4.3 apg.
• Caleb Williams averaged 4.3 ppg and 3.8 rpg while Mulready managed 1.4 ppg to go along with 0.7 rpg.
• The Hoyas will look to Julius Halaifonua to make an impact after a shortened freshman campaign after an injury six games into the season. The Hoyas will also look to Seal Diouf and Jayden Fort, a pair who redshirted their freshman seasons.
• In the offseason, GU added six players from the transfer portal: Isaiah Abraham (UConn), DeShawn Harris-Smith (Maryland), Vince Iwuchukwu (St. John's), KJ Lewis (Arizona), Langston Love (Baylor) and Jeremiah Williams (Rutgers).
• During the summer, the squad represented the United States at GLOBL JAM, competing against teams from host Canada, Japan and Brazil. The Hoyas went 2-1 in the round robin phase, defeating Brazil and Japan while falling to Canada. Their record was enough to advance to the gold medal game against Brazil, however, the Blue & Gray fell 77-73 in the rematch against Brazil to earn a silver medal.
• In the four-game tournament, Mack led a trio of Hoyas in double figures with 13.8 ppg, followed by Harris-Smith (12.3 ppg) and Jeremiah Williams (10.0 ppg).
• Harris-Smith grabbed a squad-best 7.5 rpg followed by Caleb Williams (5.8 rpg) and Iwuchukwu (5.3 rpg) at GLOBL JAM, while Mack's 7.5 apg in Toronto paced the offense.
• Cooley in his third season with the Hoyas and enters the 2025-26 campaign with a record of 361-261.

 
ABOUT THE REVS

• GW enters 2025-26 after recording the 16th 20-win campaign in the program's 111 years, doing so for the first time in eight years (2016-17) and tallying 20 regular-season wins for the first time since 2015-16.
• The Revolutionaries are projected to finish fourth in the A-10 preseason poll, matching the highest for the program since prior to the 2015-16 season that ended in an NIT Championship.
• GW tied for a league-high with four players - Rafael Castro (1st Team), Tre Dinkins III (2nd), Trey Autry (3rd) and Christian Jones (3rd) - named to preseason All-Conference teams.
• The Buff & Blue have also received national recognition, currently ranking 60th in Bart Torvik's preseason rankings (2nd A-10) and 81st in KenPom (4th A-10).
• GW has seven new players on the roster this season, the fewest among the 14 teams in the A-10. The Buff & Blue return 53.5% of the team's scoring and 50.7% of the team's minutes from last year.
• Four of the newcomers - Jean Aranguren, Bubu Benjamin, Tre Dinkins III and Tyrone Marshall Jr. - averaged double digits at the previous stops before coming to Foggy Bottom.
• The 2025-26 season marks Head Coach Chris Caputo's fourth season with the Revolutionaries.

 
A LOOK BACK AT THE SERIES

• Georgetown and George Washington have faced each other 93 times with the Hoyas holding a 54-39 record in the series dating back to 1907.
• The most recent time the two teams met was a 61-48 Hoya win on December 16, 1981.
• Cooley has never faced GW.