News about Patrick Ewing

If it goes on sale later this month, Michael Jordan's practice jersey worn during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona is expected to attract bids as high as $600,000. The jersey is one of a lot of more than 800 pieces of memorabilia on sale in Beverly Hills, California, which will take place between June 23-25.

In Ewing's last season as coach, the Hoyas went 7-25 (2-18 Big East). Georgetown was unable to return to winning ways after the school hasn't reached over.500 since 2015. Cooley put his Rhode Island home on the market for purchase on Wednesday, CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein revealed on Twitter.

The North Carolina men's basketball team is turning the page on a horrific season by declining an invitation to the NIT following an NCAA Tournament snub. The Tar Heels officially became the first top-ranked team in The Associated Press' preseason poll on Sunday, the first top-ranked team in the field to have lost March Madness since the team's expansion to 64 teams in 1985. The school said it had "chosen not to participate" in the NIT, a short time after the NCAA field of 68 teams was announced. Coach Hubert Davis said in a tweet that the team's primary aim had been to achieve its potential and have another shot at the NCAA championship that had eluded the Tar Heels in last March's magical run to the championship game. Rather, the season was 'not what we had hoped for,' Davis said.'

It's called The World's Most Popular Arena, but Madison Square Garden has been more renowned than ever in the 21st century, a place where celebrity athletes routinely fail to impress, and teaching careers go to die. The Manhattan arena's tenants haven't even sniffed a title this millennium, despite the New York Rangers' Stanley Cup Finals loss in 2014. Although New York has had some success on the track, the hardwood has been much crueler, as the Knicks have won only three playoff series since being in the NBA Finals in 1999. But now, with the support of some new blood, the Knicks and Rangers are giving irritated fans a reason to be excited about visiting Madison Square Garden for the first time in years.

JAKE FENNER of MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: The original Big East Conference is dead, but it will never die. The 'old' Big East Conference held its final tournament this week, with all of its founding members (except UConn). It was the last time basketball fans in the United States would see some of the most legendary programs in the world's Most Popular Arena: Madison Square Garden, the Mecca of College Basketball, in the United States. The Big East Conference combined some of America's top college basketball programs into one supergroup that represented flashiness, brutality, and beauty, which was never to be overflowing. Some people were defiant to the heat when the conference began in 2013.

After going 75-109 over six seasons at Georgetown University, he lost the NCAA championship as a student in the early 1980s. On Wednesday night, he lost 80-48 to Villanova in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden, the arena where Ewing appeared for the NBA's New York Knicks for so many years. "People could call me the best Hoya ever," Ewing said in 2017.