Jack the Bulldog
Jack the Bulldog is the official mascot of the Georgetown University Hoyas athletic teams. Jack has been the name of at least five live Bulldogs since 1962, when the name first came into use, though Georgetown counts seven official bulldog mascots including the two living ones. The current incarnation of Jack is an English Bulldog born in 2013 whose full name is John B. Carroll.
2016–17 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
After another week off following the La Salle game, the Hoyas journeyed to the Carrier Dome to face Syracuse – their archrival throughout the 34-season history of the original Big East Conference of 1979–2013 – on a snowy day on which Syracuse honored former Orange great Dwayne "Pearl" Washington, who had died of cancer in April 2016. Syracuse jumped out to an 11–4 lead, its largest of the game, in the first 5:08, but Georgetown came back and L. J. Peak sank a basket to tie the game at 31–31 with two minutes left until the intermission, in part thanks to Peak's 12 first-half points. The game was tied 33–33 at halftime, but Georgetown pulled ahead to its largest lead of the game, 67–60, with only 2:36 left to play. The Orange closed to 69–66 with 1:04 left, but the Hoyas hit nine free throws in the final 38 seconds to come away with a 78–71 victory, their sixth over the Orange in the last eight meetings. Peak had a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds and Rodney Pryor scored 20 points. Georgetown, which entered the game averaging 28.5 trips to the free-throw line per game and shooting 77.5 percent in free throws, went 22-of-25 from the free-throw line, while Syracuse made only 14 of its 25 free throw attempts. The Hoyas improved their all-time record against Syracuse to 43–49, their all-time road record against Syracuse to 13–30, and their record against the Orange under John Thompson III to 11–7.