Ed Cooley Hired as Georgetown HC to Replace Patrick Ewing, Leaves Providence

Georgetown has officially hired Providence men's basketball head coach Ed Cooley for the same position with the Hoyas.

Providence announced Cooley's resignation Monday, and Georgetown has since revealed his hire.

CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein reported the news earlier Monday alongside others such as Jeff Goodman of Stadium and ESPN's Pete Thamel and Jeff Borzello.

Cooley will replace Basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing. Georgetown fired the former star Hoyas and New York Knicks center after six seasons.

The 53-year-old Cooley coached at Providence for 12 seasons and made the NCAA tournament in seven of them, including this year. He also led the Friars to the 2014 Big East tournament title.

Cooley's Friars teams went as far as the Sweet 16, doing so once in 2022. Providence nearly picked off eventual national champion Kansas before falling 66-61. This year's Friars team made the NCAA tournament as a No. 11 seed but lost to Kentucky.

He will have a tough task at Georgetown, which has lost 25 games each of the past two seasons. However, he knows a thing or two about turning programs around.

Cooley led Fairfield for five seasons (2006-2011) before joining Providence. The Stags were 9-19 the season before he got there but improved to 25 wins with an NIT appearance in 2010-11.

Providence went 4-14 in the Big East in the two seasons prior to Cooley's arrival. That was the case during Cooley's first Friars year as well, but Providence then went 9-9 in conference in 2012-13 before winning the conference tournament in his third season.

Now Cooley moves on to Washington, D.C., where he hopes to restore the once-dominant program to its past greatness.