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Maryland basketball schedule news: rivalry series reportedly close to happening – 247Sports
Since Georgetown basketball hired Ed Cooley in March, there’s been plenty of talk about the possibility of the Hoyas and Maryland starting a new series, and not just because of Georgetown’s fresh start. Cooley and Maryland coach Kevin Willard are also good friends.
” Kevin Willard and I have talked about it and we’ll eventually come to an agreement on it. I don’t think it’ll be this year, but as we move forward, I’d like to start a home and home with the University of Maryland,” Cooley said in a June radio interview. “I think it’d be good for the District. We want to try to play in the best MTEs [multiple-team events] for us. We Want some home-and-home series that are attractive not just for television, but for recruiting and for national exposure.”
It sounds like ‘eventually’ might have arrived. The two programs are “in serious talks” to launch a series, CBSSports’ Matt Norlander reported.
“Georgetown and Maryland are in serious talks to revive their rivalry in men’s basketball with a multi-year on-campus series, targeting a start in the 2024-25 season, a source tells CBSSports,” he Tweeted.
Putting aside the “on-campus” part of that equation — Georgetown plays off-campus at Capital One Arena, and it’s on-campus gym, McDonogh Arena, only holds 2,500 spectators — — a series between the two would be a big deal for local basketball fans.
“Our job and our goal is to try to play in the best tournaments, play against the best teams. But I think if you can have a Georgetown-Maryland series for our region, for our people, I think those are guaranteed sellouts every single year,” Cooley said in that interview.
According to Norlander, the series could be a four-year deal. If the two teams play four times, that would one fewer game than they’ve played against each other since 1980, the result of a longstanding cold war between them that briefly paused during two-year home-and-home in 2015 and 2016, both Maryland wins.
Willard addressed the topic sub in April on the Kevin Sheehan Show.
“Now the schedule is kind of, we’re in flux a little bit. Just because we kind of got to wait on the Gavitt games, where we’re going for the Gavitt Games. We’re trying to get something together with Georgetown,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen this year. We tried to get it to go this year, but they’re kind of locked into a couple of things from the previous staff. So I think the Georgetown game will start the year after and I really want to get that game on the schedule.”
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