Georgetown announced on Thursday that Patrick Ewing will no longer be the head coach of the basketball program he brought to the mountaintop as a player.

Ewing, a Hall of Famer and national champion with Georgetown in 80s, fell to 75-109 as the program’s head coach on Wednesday when the last-place Hoyas were torn apart by 6th-seeded Villanova 80-48 in the first round of the Big East Tournament. The loss dropped Georgetown to 7-25 on the year, marking its 50th loss in 63 games over the last 2 seasons.

Georgetown went 0-19 in Big East play last season, then went just 2-18 this season.

“I am very proud to be a graduate of Georgetown University. And I am very grateful to President DeGioia for giving me the opportunity to achieve my ambition to be a head basketball coach,” Ewing said in a press release. “It is particularly meaningful to me to be in charge of the basketball program at my alma mater. I wish the program nothing but success. I will always be a Hoya.”

The Hoyas lost 20 of their last 22 games to close out the 2022-23 season.

Ewing, the program’s all-time leading scorer, went 15-15 his first year in charge and then won 19 games during the 2018-19 season.

Despite a 13-13 record in the 2020-21 season, Georgetown claimed the Big East Tournament championship as an 8-seed by running through Marquette, Seton Hall, Villanova, and Creighton. That crown earned the Hoyas a trip to the NCAA Tournament for what was the first time since 2014-15.

It has been nothing but adversity since.

“It has been a privilege to work with Patrick over these past years and I deeply appreciate all of his hard work and efforts to support our student-athletes and the Men’s Basketball program,” athletic director Lee Reed said in a release. “We are grateful to all those who have supported this program through this time. We will immediately launch a national search for our next coach and look forward to a bright future for Hoya basketball.”

Georgetown will be looking for a spark under its next coach. The program hasn’t gotten past the second round of the NCAA Tournament since 2007.