1972–73 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
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The <entity_0> represented Georgetown University during the 1972-73 NCAA Division I college <entity_4> season. At Georgetown, Thompson inherited a team that had gone 3-23 the <entity_2>, the culmination of a 25-year stretch of mostly undistinguished <entity_4> at Georgetown. Although the team had appeared in the National Invitation Tournament in 1953 and 1970, between the 1947-48 season and the end of the <entity_2> Georgetown had posted an overall record under .500 and its total of 296 wins during those 25 seasons was the lowest among the 32 Catholic universities playing Division I college <entity_4> in the <entity_3>. Thompson's arrival heralded the school's rise to the status of a national <entity_4> power; the 12-14 record this season was a significant improvement over the 3-23 finish of the previous year, and the 1972-73 squad was the last Georgetown <entity_1> team to finish with a losing record until the 1998–99 season.
['basketball team season']