1 Duke. Presently, Georgetown is one of the few teams to wear gray as their primary home uniform color, as traditionally teams wear white uniforms at home (though the Hoyas do have a white alternate jersey that is worn on occasion). 14 Syracuse, but then staggered to a 15–18 finish. The Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball program represents Georgetown University in NCAA Division I men's intercollegiate basketball and the Big East Conference. Coming off of the best season in school history, momentum was stalled as the program was suspended from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II. In 1992, 1993 and 1995, Georgetown won the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) award for best three-point shooting percentage in the state, and in 1998, the Lady Eagles won the TABC free-throw shooting award.” Richardson has helped coach a TABC All-Star game, and she was named TABC’s Assistant Coach of the Year in 2004. Thompson III also immediately brought two new assistant coaches to Georgetown in Robert Burke and Kevin Broadus. He came to the Hilltop after spending the 2015-16 season as an assistant coach at Hofstra University. Prior to the 2011–12 season, the Hoyas made a goodwill trip to China for several matches with local teams. Magee had some relative success early on, as he led the team to the 1970 NIT, just its third post-season appearance ever. 16 Creighton, and No. Among current Big East Conference foes, Villanova and UConn are the only schools that have as many Final Four appearances (5) as the Hoyas, and they currently rank third to Georgetown in number of Big East Tournament Championships. Follows allContinue Reading → He took over the basketball program at St. Anthony's in D.C., compiling a 122-28 record before taking the Georgetown job. Georgetown Basketball Today at 9:20 AM Coaches vs. Cancer We are proud to support @coachesvscancer - whe ... ther you’re a coach, player or fan - you can join in the fight against cancer. The son of the legendary Hoyas coach took over the position after over a decade at Princeton University. A student committee declared blue and gray "as appropriate colors for the Boat Club and expressive of the feeling of unity between the Northern and Southern boys of the College", and recommended its adoption for the team. From its humble beginnings, the Kenner legacy continued to build throughout the 1980s, with coverage in the Washington Post beginning around 1986, then a high school bracket following soon thereafter, and ultimately the arrival of "senior" teams featuring a mix of former Georgetown players, visiting NBA stars, and local hoop legends. George Washington announced Friday the firing of head coach Maurice … In 1953, former Baltimore Bullets player Buddy Jeannette coached the team to its first National Invitation Tournament invitation, but the team lost in the first round to Louisville. The Hoyas led by one point late in the game, but a jumpshot by future NBA superstar Michael Jordan gave North Carolina the lead. Prior to the 1979–80 season, Georgetown joined with six other schools, Providence, St. John's, Syracuse, Seton Hall, Connecticut, and Boston College to found a conference focused primarily on basketball. Weeks later, the two schools met in the inaugural Big East Championship, with Georgetown prevailing 87-81. [48] By the time the men's varsity basketball team was formed, the blue and gray colors were already widely adopted by the school. Since the league has been in existence, nearly 200 Georgetown players have played in the Kenner League. The Hoyas historically have been well regarded not only for their team success, but also for generating players that have succeeded both on and off the court, producing NBA legends such as Patrick Ewing, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, and Allen Iverson, as well as United States Congressman Henry Hyde and former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue. 15 Creighton. Soon enough, the legendary coach would come to define a program, school and sport. 22 Texas 82-66, and moved to the final to face No. It became the first major college sports event telecasted exclusively on cable television. He came to the Hilltop after spending the 2015-16 season as an assistant coach at Hofstra University. [32] They received a No. [7], John Thompson, Jr., played two seasons with the Boston Celtics before he achieved local notability coaching St. Anthony's High School in Washington, D.C. to several very successful seasons. Hatchet File Photo Assistant men’s basketball coach Kevin Sutton will leave the program to take a position at Georgetown – more bad news as the Colonials endure a rough offseason full of departures. LANDOVER, Md. In 2009–10, the team finished the season 23–11, and 10–8 in Big East play. [37][38] The Hoyas finished the season in fourth place in the Big East and received a bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. Fans are generally encouraged to wear gray to home games, and sellouts are referred to as a "gray out.". That year, Ewing led the Hoyas to their second Big East Tournament title in school history, and a No. 3 UConn in Washington DC, but a few weeks later at Madison Square Garden, UConn prevailed in a classic Big East Tournament Final 75-74, on a last second shot by Allen. 1 and No. In conference, wins over No. [14] In the NCAA Tournament, the Hoyas came up one game short of the Final Four, losing to the University of Massachusetts, the top ranked team in the country. Patrick Ewing, "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Classic Games", "Alonzo Mourning Named to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame", "Georgetown Has an Impenetrable Wall With Mourning, Mutombo", "Allen Iverson Rewind: Georgetown University", "Georgetown nips Virginia 115–111 in triple-OT thriller", "Hoyas Refuse N.I.T. Mourning and Mutombo were both excellent shot blockers; Mourning led the nation in 1988–89,[16] and fans created a "Rejection Row" section under the basket. After the win, Georgetown coach John Thompson declared, "Manley Field House is officially closed". Again No. The 2007–08 Hoyas finished with a regular season record of 27–5, and again won the conference regular season title. Founded in the fall of 1906, the Georgetown men's basketball team played its first game on February 9, 1907, defeating the University of Virginia by a score of 22-11. Assistant coaches: Craig Esherick (1st season) Mike Riley (1st season) Captain: Gene Smith (1st year) Home arena: Capital Centre Thompson's head coaching stint at Princeton was marked with success as he led the Tigers to three Ivy League titles, two NCAA Tournament appearances and one NIT appearance. UConn is the only team to match Georgetown's record of 10 Regular Season titles and is second behind the Hoyas in total conference tournament titles. On January 26, 1985, the St. John's University Redmen snapped the Hoyas' 29 game win streak (dating back to the prior season), in what was the first of an unprecedented four contests this season. 8-seeded Villanova shocked the highly favored and top-ranked Hoyas 66-64, preventing Georgetown from gaining back-to-back titles. The colors were selected in 1876 by the Georgetown College Boat Club (the original crew team) in honor of Georgetown students and alumni who wore the Union blue and Confederate gray in the Civil War. Georgetown led comfortably throughout the final, and went on to an 84–75 victory, giving the school its first NCAA Championship in school history. [36] Georgetown won its final games, against the Liaoning Dinosaurs and the Taiwanese national team without incident. Thompson became the first Black coach to win an … 11-seeded and eventual Final Four participant VCU.[35]. Because of COVID-19 protocols, the team played all of its home games on campus at McDonough Arena without fans. Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Villanova, Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Washington. The 13 wins were the team's fewest since the 1973–74 season and Esherick was fired after 5½ seasons as head coach on March 15, 2004, five days after an opening-round loss in the Big East Tournament to Boston College. Freddy Brown, who made the key turnover in the title game two years prior, was given the chance to raise the trophy first. The current head coach of the program is Patrick Ewing. This was Georgetown's first win over a No. [18] During his two years at Georgetown, Iverson scored a Georgetown-record 22.9 points per game. Freshman Alonzo Mourning and sophomore Dikembe Mutombo helped win both titles in the 1988–89 season. Two Hoyas were the NBA first overall draft picks: Patrick Ewing in 1985 and Allen Iverson in 1996. 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In the opening round of the NCAA tournament the 7th-seeded Hoyas advanced past 10th-seeded Arkansas on a game-winning shot at the buzzer by Nat Burton. They lost to Pittsburgh in the Big East Tournament championship game. Each summer Georgetown University's McDonough Gymnasium hosts the Kenner League. [2] They have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 31 times and in the National Invitation Tournament 13 times. [8] In the 1980 NCAA Tournament, the team advanced to the Elite Eight, where they fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes on a last second foul call. Georgetown University Men's basketball Program Recruiting and Coaching Personnel If you're trying to get recruited it's important to understand who to talk to - and NCSA has the details you'll need. 1 Georgetown was victorious, easily handling St. John's 77-59. [28], On April 21, 2004, John Thompson III was selected as the head coach of the Hoyas. The Hoyas 7-9 record led to an 8th place finish in the conference, despite being picked to finish last preseason by the league's coaches. He also brought with him a former Princeton recruit, Jonathan Wallace and saw the return of two major contributors from the previous Georgetown team in Brandon Bowman, Ashanti Cook, and Darrel Owens. ... who later served as an assistant coach under Thompson. Former NBA player, Georgetown staffer and son of Hall of Famer makes CEBL pro coaching debut. The following season the 2019-2020 Hoyas finished 15-17 and 5-13 in the Big East.   Conference tournament champion. Ranked as high as No. 2 and No. Thompson resigned on January 8, 1999, and Esherick immediately succeeded him as head coach. [24], In 2001–02, the Hoyas went 19–11, barely missing an NCAA tournament bid. The Hoyas subsequently beat Hampton, and then lost to third-seeded Maryland in the Sweet Sixteen. 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Ewing was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, while Thompson became the first African American coach to win an NCAA Division I title. The rivalry is best known for the 1985 NCAA Championship Game where No. Waheed joined the Georgetown men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach in May 2016 and was retained by Ewing as a member of his first coaching staff. With the early departure of Omer Yurtseven, and the four midseason transfers from the prior year, the 2020-2021 Hoyas consisted of eight new players (five freshmen and three transfers). They missed both the NCAA Tournament and the NIT for the second straight year, the first time they had missed the postseason in back-to-back seasons since 1974, and Thompson became the first Georgetown head coach to preside over consecutive losing seasons since John "Jack" Magee in 1970-71 and 1971-72. Several Hoya basketball players are famous purely for their off-court accomplishments. He received the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. The 2012–13 season saw the Hoyas as the top overall seed in the Big East Tournament based on a tiebreaker, but lost in the semifinals. At the 2021 Big East Tournament, the team won its first tournament game under Ewing, with a 68-49 victory over Marquette in the opening round, then followed that up with wins against top-seeded Villanova and Seton Hall, sending them to the title game where they defeated Creighton 73-48 for their first title since 2007, and the eighth in school history, extending their own conference record. 5 seed Utah gets by No. Georgetown had no college basketball brand when John Thompson arrived at the university in 1972. Georgetown's official colors are blue and gray. The schools are arguably two of the most successful programs among the group of teams that currently make up the Big East Conference. During the regular season, Georgetown upset then ranked No. The league is an independent effort, whose organizers must raise money from Nike and team sponsors to cover the cost of officials, jerseys, and other organizational costs, and maintain NCAA certification. Paul Tagliabue, who played in the early 1960s and was one of the leading rebounders in school history,[53] became Commissioner of the National Football League from 1989–2006 and later served as Georgetown's Chairman of the Board of Directors. They began their 2015–16 season with a four-game exhibition trip to Italy and Switzerland, and early in the regular season defeated No. “Georgetown is my home and it is a great honor for me to return to my alma mater and serve as the next head coach. All postseason tournaments were subsequently cancelled due to COVID-19. Georgetown, while still independent, participated in the Eastern College Athletic Conference′s 1975 postseason ECAC South Tournament, and after a 16–9 regular season found itself facing West Virginia in the conference tournament championship. The Hoyas lost their first game in the 2019 Big East Tournament to Seton Hall 73–57. Georgetown's coach of this squad, Elmer Ripley, was later inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1973.[3]. He was named head coach after Thompson abruptly resigned in 1999. A large on-campus arena was proposed in 1927, but it was shelved during the Great Depression. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Alonzo Mourning was the second overall pick in the 1992 draft. Following the hiatus the program struggled to find its footing, and it was rarely successful over the next three decades, only making two postseason appearances during this time period. The team moved its home arena in the 1981-82 season to the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland to accommodate its growing fan base. Until McDonough Gymnasium opened on campus for the 1950–51 season, the team changed home courts frequently, playing on campus at Ryan Gymnasium and off campus at McKinley Technology High School, Uline Arena, and the National Guard Armory, as well as pla… Assistant Women's Basketball Coach - Georgetown University Athletics. The team received an at-large bid as a No. Georgetown's biggest rival is Syracuse. The two schools have been playing each other since 1930, but their rivalry was solidified in the 1980s as the respective programs were the leading powers during the infancy of the newly formed Big East conference. At the conclusion of the conference schedule, Jesse Govan was named First Team All-Big East, James Akinjo was named Big East Freshman of the Year, and Mac McClung and Josh LeBlanc were named to the All-Big East Freshman Team. [3] Top players from this period include Tom O'Keefe, the first Hoya to reach 1,000 career points in 1949–50, and future National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who graduated second in Hoya career rebounds in 1962. They advanced to the championship game of the Big East Tournament before losing to West Virginia. [23], In 2000–01, led by future top NBA Draft pick Michael Sweetney, they made the NCAA tournament after finishing 23–7 in the regular season. Henry Hyde, who led Georgetown to its first national final, was elected a member of Congress from Illinois and Chairman of House Judiciary Committee. Over his 26½ seasons, Thompson's Hoyas went an impressive 596–239 (.714), running off a streak of 24 postseason appearances with 20 in the NCAA tournament and four in the NIT. John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball … [6] Georgetown repeated as ECAC South Tournament champions the following year, beating George Washington University when Craig Esherick's buzzer beater sent the game to overtime, and as ECAC South-Upstate Tournament champions in the 1978-79 season, beating Syracuse University in Jim Boeheim's first game against the Hoyas as Syracuse's coach.[8]. The Hoyas under Thompson III struggled for the next two years. However, the team lost to LSU in the first round. WTBS won the rights to broadcast the game with a $550,000 bid, and it was billed as the "Game of the Decade". Ewing Jr. Named Ottawa BlackJacks Lead Assistant Coach. Named after one of the founders and first director of the Metropolitan Police Boys' and Girls' Club of Washington DC, the Kenner league is the only NCAA sanctioned summer league in Washington DC. Georgetown won the National Championship in 1984 and has made the Final Four on five occasions. 4 seed Georgetown to return to Sweet 16 | FOX Sports", "Hoyas dismiss coach John Thompson III after 13 seasons". 1 Virginia, and highly regarded center Ralph Sampson. The Hoyas have made 31 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The Pride finished the 2015-16 season with a 24-10 record and an appearance in the NIT. The rivalry was brought to national attention during the 1984-85 NCAA Division I men's basketball season when both programs were ranked No. 1 ranked team in 21 years.[30]. [3] From 1932 until 1939, the Hoyas played in the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference, and they were regular-season conference co-champions in 1939. The Hoyas have gone to the National Invitation Tournament 13 times. It also marked the arrival of heralded recruit, Patrick Ewing, who became one of the first college players to start and star on a varsity team as a freshman. As summer leagues go, Kenner is among the longest running of its kind. William Shea, who played in the 1920s, was the New York attorney who brought the New York Mets to the city. In its first 60-some years, the program displayed only sporadic success. They failed to receive an invitation to either the NCAA Tournament or the NIT for the first time since 2004 and only the second time since 1974. In the 1996–97 season, with an 11–7 conference record, the Hoyas won the regular season Big East 7 Division title for the second year in a row, but fell in the first round of the 1997 NCAA tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, the No. Dikembe Mutombo also was drafted in the first round, 4th overall[50] Other alumni have gone undrafted, but entered the NBA later, such as Jaren Jackson in 1989 and Henry Sims and Chris Wright in 2013.[51][52]. [6] In 1942, a Hoya went pro for the first time, when three seniors, Al Lujack, Buddy O'Grady, and Dino Martin, were drafted professionally upon graduation. The Hoyas began their 2008–09 season ranked No. 22 in the country, they received a No. Jeff Green was named the Big East Player of the Year and the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. 21 at times, they completed the regular season with a 20–7 record and a second-place finish in the Big East, and advanced to the semifinals of the Big East Tournament before losing to Xavier. The 2006–07 season marked the centennial of Hoya hoops, which was celebrated by honoring some of the team's most famous alumni at the Georgetown-Marquette game on February 10, 2007. Marquis Estill and Barrett Meyer Named Assistant Basketball Coaches at Georgetown College (KY) 13 Jun 2017. [5], The team recruited its first All-American, Ed Hargaden, in 1931. The Hoyas accepted a bid to the NIT, but lost in the first round to Baylor. (Georgetown, 1918) Assistant Coach, 1921-22, Head Coach, 1923 Record at Georgetown: 3-6-0 (.333) Career Record: 68-46-8 (.590) After serving one season as Georgetown's basketball coach during the convalescence of John O'Reilly, assistant football coach Jackie Maloney was tapped to replace Al Exendine in 1923, to mediocre results. He turned Georgetown into a powerhouse and opened doors for other Black coaches. Coach Canfield has been married 20 years to his beautiful wife Ashley. After the hiatus, the team returned to win six of its next ten games, including a 86-79 win at No. Formed in 1982, the league allows Georgetown players to continue their development in an NCAA-structured environment, and to stay within view of watchful eyes on a college campus (even if the coaches were not allowed there by NCAA rules). The teams met one more time, after both advanced to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. On December 2nd, Ewing announced that James Akinjo and Josh LeBlanc would transfer. Georgetown head coach John Thompson, pictured hugging center Patrick Ewing after defeating Houston for the 1984 NCAA championship, was the first Black head coach to win the Division-I men's basketball title. Shea Stadium, now demolished and replaced on-site by the Mets' current home of Citi Field, was named in his honor. This was the only season in Ewing's four-year Georgetown career where the team did not make it as least as far as the National Championship game. The team's big wins came over league powers Florida, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Georgia. Georgetown lost to the 15th-seeded Eagles 78–68, the seventh number two seed to lose to a 15 seed. As of thi… The D.C. Hoyas' CAN Softball team finished the 2016 season as one of the top squads in the 64-team league, with an 11-3 overall record and a division championship on the heels of a 7-0 mark in division play. Just over a week later, two more players in Galen Alexander and Myron Gardner, announced their intentions to transfer as well, leaving the Hoyas with only 9 scholarship players. In the 1994–95 season, newcomer Allen Iverson won the Big East Rookie of the Year award. In the tournament, the Hoyas advanced to their first Final Four since 1943, where they defeated the University of Louisville 50-46, to set up a showdown in the NCAA Final against the University of North Carolina. After a win in the Second Round, they were upset by No. Located in a historic neighborhood in the nation's capital, Georgetown offers rigorous academic programs, a global perspective, exciting ways to take advantage of Washington, D.C., and a commitment to social justice. An overwhelming favorite going into the game, Georgetown was upset by the Wildcats 66-64, who shot a record 78.6 percent (22 of 28) from the floor, denying Georgetown back-to-back titles. He brings a strong sense of Philosophy on discipline, hard work, unity, and creativity to the hardwood.   Conference division regular season champion 16 Marquette on the final day of the regular season, denying the Golden Eagles a share of the conference title. He spent this past season as an assistant coach of Prep’s varsity basketball team and also spent two years working and learning under Coach Steve Turner at Gonzaga College High School. The Assistant Coach of the Georgetown University Men's Basketball program is Robert Kirby. [14] Ewing graduated, having helped his team to a 121–23 record in his four years, and was the first player in school history to be drafted with the first overall pick.[15].   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion [12] In the final, the Hoyas faced the University of Houston and future Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon, who were making their second straight National Championship game appearance. On top of that, according to ESPN's Ian O'Connor, back in 2017, Georgetown gave Ewing a six-year contract to become the head coach of its men's basketball program. Georgetown received a bid as a No. 14 seed Ohio in the First Round. 19 Butler and No. 11-seeded NC State. Both wins were Ewing's first wins over nationally ranked teams. Georgetown was able to turn an early 12 point deficit into a 53-40 win to advance to the National Championship game. In his four years as a player at Georgetown, Ewing led the Hoyas to three Big East championships, three Final Fours, and the 1984 National Championship. They received an at–large bid to the NCAA Tournament, earning a No. Former Georgetown coach John Thompson III is among the pool of potential candidates for the George Washington men's basketball head coaching job, multiple sources tell NBC Sports Washington. Greg Monroe entered the NBA Draft as a sophomore and was selected by the Detroit Pistons. 3 seed in the Midwest. After the season, Roy Hibbert, Jonathan Wallace, and Patrick Ewing Jr. all graduated, while Vernon Macklin and Jeremiah Rivers both transferred from the school.[33]. As a former assistant basketball coach at WOSC. Georgetown men’s basketball announced Monday that Coach Patrick Ewing has named Louis Orr, Robert Kirby and Akbar Waheed as assistant coaches for … 17 Villanova, the defending national champions, and an 86-84 win at No. Kenner continued to grow, with more fans making the trip weekly to the gymnasium for a series of weeknight and weekend games each summer. 13 Oregon, No. NCAA national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics, World War II and the lean years (1943–1972). Esherick was a four year player for the men's basketball team from 1974–78 and then the lead assistant coach under John Thompson Jr. from 1981–99. On April 3, 2017, Georgetown University announced that it had hired Patrick Ewing, the school's most decorated player, as its head coach. In November, the team participated in the Empire Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City where they beat No. Like the previous year, the 2013–14 season started abroad, with the Hoyas playing in the Armed Forces Classic at Camp Humphreys near Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Coach Canfield served as the lead assistant at Lake Travis High School. He was honored in 2011 as the Assistant Coach of the Year by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. 1 ranked team and won their first 18 games. 3 seed in the Midwest Region, where they were upset by No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Signature wins included an 85-73 win against No. They have six boys: Casey, 19; Brayden, 17; Kai, 14; Tate, 12; Jude, 9; and Finn, 5. Coach James Jackson announced his hire Thursday afternoon. In the NCAA Tournament, the Hoyas beat North Carolina in the Regional Final when their defense caused North Carolina to suffer an improbable collapse in which UNC missed 22 of their final 23 field goal attempts. The rivalry gained renewed interest when both schools remained in the new Big East Conference following the many iterations of conference alignment. The season ended with a 77-88 loss to St. John's in the first round of the Big East Tournament. Georgetown College men’s basketball coach Chris Briggs was faced with a task he has not addressed since day one of assuming the position as the Tigers leader. He died last August at age 78. Arenas nationwide jockeyed to host the matchup but Georgetown insisted on hosting it at the Capital Centre. Following the enormous heights of Ewing's four-year run, the program continued its success in the years that followed. In 1980, the first season of new conference, Georgetown famously ended Syracuse's 57-game home winning streak in the final game to played at Manley Field House before moving to the Carrier Dome. 1 seeded Hoyas ultimately advanced to the Final Four for the third time in school history to face Kentucky, a team which had never lost a national semifinal game and was led by the "Twin Towers," Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin. In a physical and tightly contested contest, Georgetown won 82-71 in overtime, securing their third tournament title in the first five years of the newly formed conference. Their second game against the Bayi Rockets, however, ended in a brawl, causing the team to leave the court while Chinese fans threw garbage and debris. Anonymous, "Georgetown fires head coach John Thompson III after 13 years," si.com, March 23, 2017. The animosity between the programs was further extended when Syracuse announced their decision to leave the Big East effective in 2013 to join the ACC, forcing the split of "Catholic Seven" and the football-playing schools. [34] The Hoyas were 7–11 in Big East play for a 12th-place finish, followed by a first-round loss in the Big East Tournament. On February 13, 1980, in the final game at Manley Field House, Georgetown star Sleepy Floyd scored two last-second free-throws to snap No. [21] Under Thompson, 26 players were chosen in the NBA Draft, eight in the first round, including two players selected first overall; Ewing by the New York Knicks in 1985 and Iverson by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996.
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