Georgetown Basketball: 9 candidates to replace Patrick Ewing as head coach

Matt Langel

Establishing a winning culture does not happen overnight, and Langel knows that as well as any coach in the nation. He hasn’t spent years in the Big East and he’s not from Washington DC, but he is Ivy League educated and has been one of the hottest mid-major coaches in recent years. Why not take a deeper look if you’re Georgetown?

Langel played his college ball under Fran Dunphy at Penn in the late 90’s and started his coaching career on the Penn staff a few years later. He followed Dunphy to Temple in 2006, serving as an assistant coach for five more seasons. In 2011, Colgate gave Langel his first head coaching job and waited patiently for the results. His first six seasons were mediocre, but the Raiders have been magical ever since, winning the last five regular season titles in the Patriot League. They recently just clinched their way to their fourth straight NCAA Tournament, something Georgetown hasn’t done in a decade.

Simply put, Langel has won a tremendous amount of games with the Raiders in recent years and his program is the class of the Patriot League. Whether he’s loyal to Colgate or waiting for a bigger job to open, you have to wonder if jumping from the Patriot to the Big East is too far of a leap. Langel isn’t the name that most at Georgetown want to see roaming the sidelines, but he’d quietly be a very solid hire for the Hoyas.