Former Georgetown men’s basketball standout Jonathan Wallace returned to the Hilltop prior to the start of the 2016-17 academic year.
Wallace, an All-BIG EAST guard who hit a game-tying 3-pointer in the 2007 NCAA Regionals to help lift the Hoyas past North Carolina and to the Final Four, finished his eighth season in the professional ranks, playing for a team in Angola.
Wallace ended up starting every game of his career (136), was part of four teams that went to the postseason, including three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances, won back-to-back BIG EAST Regular Season titles (2006-07, 2007-08) and a BIG EAST Tournament Championship (2006-07). He ranks third al-time in career starts at Georgetown and the Hoyas won 100 games during his four-year career.
Wallace earned All-BIG EAST honors in 2007-08 as a senior, when he was a co-captain and averaged 10.7 points, 2.6 assists and led the team with 71 3-point field goals. As a junior in 2006-07, when the Hoyas went to the Final Four, he finished third on the team in scoring with 11.4 points and led the team with 73 3-pointers.
For his career, Wallace averaged 9.2 points and 2.8 assists and hit 240 3-point field goals, the latter mark which stood as the school record until the 2015-16 season. He ranks No. 24 all-time in scoring (1,256 points), third in 3-point field goal percentage (43.4%), fifth in free throw percentage (82.1%) and ninth all-time in assists (378).
Following his graduation Wallace, who had been accepted in the Georgetown University School of Law, embarked on a professional career that took him from the NBA Developmental League to Germany, Belgium and Africa. He played for the Houston Rockets team in the D-League in 2008 and won a championship with that squad. Wallace moved to Germany in 2009 and won a pair of league titles there while also being selected as an all-league player during the 2012-13 season.
Wallace is currently enrolled in Georgetown’s Executive Master’s in Leadership program in conjunction with the McDonough School of Business.
