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University of Scranton in 2003, taking Jack with him, Georgetown secured a fresh bulldog puppy and found another Jesuit, Christopher Steck, S.J., to care for him.

For Russ White, he knew Georgetown basketball about in addition to anyone beyond your Hilltop could have. “Each of the three beat reporters had his own bottle of preferred whiskey in my own file cabinet,” Williams recalled. “They drank it when they found campus and I delivered them drinks in the press box as they wrote. Mr. Fitzgerald told me how to do that.”

“It didn’t go anywhere until Bill Conlin found out about it and ran with it.” Despite a 16-8 record that season, the Hoyas were not invited to the NIT. By the fall of 1964, Williams refocused on his degree plans and Georgetown went to a local journalist because of its next hire.