Georgetown Refuses To Clarify Cryptic Statement About Basketball Team’s Mysterious ‘Health Incident’

Georgetown is one of very few college basketball teams that are still playing in the month of April. Although the Hoyas did not make March Madness, they advanced to the quarterfinal round of The Crown with a surprising win at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on late Monday night, into early Tuesday morning.

The victory is rather impressive even if the tournament itself is not.

Georgetown dropped an extremely vague announcement about its roster shortly before tipoff. Most of its starting lineup was not going to be available for the college basketball game. The majority of the team was ruled out due to an undisclosed health issue. No further details were provided.

Due to a health incident that impacted several members of the team, Georgetown is playing with a limited roster this evening.

— Georgetown Hoops

Micah Peavy, Jayden Epps and Drew Fielder did not play, among others. Head coach Ed Cooley refused to elaborate further during his postgame press conference, saying only that his players have their individual rights to privacy. He is unsure whether they will be available for the next game on Wednesday.

If I had to guess, this is not as serious as the Hoyas made it sound. I would imagine that the cryptic statement probably relates to something like food poisoning, the flu or Norovirus. Perhaps the players ate some bad food at one of the buffets in Las Vegas. Maybe they hit it too hard at OMNIA. Perhaps they just didn’t want to play in The Crown. Nobody outside of the locker room knows for certain.

The program is keeping this “health incident” a mystery for now…

Georgetown made it seem like its players were involved in a catastrophic accident. I certainly hope not. I would hope that the team would address the situation differently if so. It was a very strange release just moments before the game was scheduled to begin.

Even though the Hoyas were without four of five starters, they hung on to win by three. Five scholarship players — one starter, three bench players, and four guys who averaged 1.1 points per game or less during the regular season — defeated the Washington State Cougars on a neutral court. Impressive.

Cooley also dropped one of the quotes of the year, at one point comparing both teams to two of the most famous blind people in history.