Aside from the enormous expectations placed on point guard D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera, Georgetown will depend on its three freshmen and five returning sophomores to play heavy minutes this season.
Smith-Rivera, a senior, led the team with 16.3 points and 3.2 assists last year. He was the only upperclassman to average more than five minutes per game last year, which was punctuated by a 75-64 loss to No. 4 seed Utah in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
“I’ve told our sophomores we need them to perform like seniors,” coach John Thompson III said.