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Basketball is suspended for
the remainder of World War II
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Tom O'Keefe becomes the first of 35 Hoya players to score 1,000 points in a career. He later serves as head coach from 1960-66.
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The construction of McDonough Gymnasium is completed in time to host the Eisenhower inaugural ball and the start of the 1951-52 season.
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Led by Bill Bolger, a strong senior class takes the Hoyas to their first post-season appearance in ten years, earning a bid to the then-preeminent NIT.
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Paul Tagliabue, future commissioner of the National Football League, finishes as the second-ranked career rebounder for the Hoyas.
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Behind the scoring and ball-handling of the backcourt tandem of Jim Christy and Jim Brown, the Hoyas take down #1-ranked and defending NCAA champion Loyola of Chicago at a holiday tournament in Philadelphia.
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A 17-year post-season drought ends when the Hoyas are selected to play the Pete Maravich-led LSU Tigers in the NIT. This high point is followed two years later by the low point of a 3-23 season and a search for a new coach.
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