Georgetown Hoyas
Georgetown's nickname is The Hoyas, but its mascot is "Jack the Bulldog." Various breeds of dogs have been used by the sports teams as mascots since the early 1900s. Several notable bull terriers like Sergeant Stubby and "Hoya" were used at football games in the 1920s, as was a Great Dane in the 1940s. However, in 1951, the school suspended its football program because of the increasing cost of the game financially and academically, which left the school without an official live mascot.
2015–16 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
Georgetown next stepped away from conference play for one game to meet Connecticut at the Verizon Center. Both teams had been charter members of the original Big East and played each other annually throughout its 34 seasons from 1979 to 2013. When the conference broke up over the summer of 2013, Connecticut had remained in it as it reinvented itself as the American Athletic Conference, marketed as "the American," while Georgetown left to become a charter member of the new Big East. As a result, the two teams had not met since February 2013, but they had agreed to renew the series by meeting each other in a home-and-home series, with the Hoyas visiting the Huskies this season and the Huskies returning the favor the following year. Connecticut shot 13-for-26 from the field in the first half, including 5-for-10 from three-point range, and the Huskies led 40–33 at halftime. Connecticut went cold as the second half began, starting the half shooting 1-for-16 (6.25 percent) from the field and allowing Georgetown to close the gap. By the time the Huskies sank their first field goal of the second half with 12:46 left to play, the Hoyas had cut their lead to 49–46. Georgetown then had an 8–2 scoring run that gave the Hoyas a 54–51 lead with 9:50 remaining. With six minutes left, Georgetown led 60–56, but the Hoyas managed only one more basket for the rest of the game. Connecticut, meanwhile, shot only 19.1 percent from the field during the second half, but made up for it by sinking free throws, going 20-for-25 from the line after halftime as part of a 29-for-36 effort for the game, while the Hoyas went 7-for-8 from the line for the entire game and only 2-for-3 in the second half. The Hoyas still led, 62–60, with 4:32 to play, but the barrage of Husky free throws took their toll. Connecticut redshirt junior shooting guard Rodney Purvis stole the ball from Jesse Govan and sank two free throws with 18 seconds left to help seal a 68–62 Connecticut victory. Connecticut shot 17-for-47 (36.2 percent) from the field overall, but outrebounded the Hoyas 35–34, scored 15 points off 12 Georgetown turnovers, and outscored the Hoyas 24–18 in the paint. The Hoyas made the largest number of three-point attempts that they had all season but went only 9-for-31 (29.0 percent) from beyond the arc. Reggie Cameron led the Hoyas with 13 points, and D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera and L. J. Peak scored 12 each.