Sources: Georgetown expected to hire Cooley

11:33 AM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Personnel Author Basketball recruiting expert. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of

University of Delaware.Georgetown is expected to employ Providence

, and a deal is expected to be settled in the future, per ESPN sources.The work with for Georgetown marks a substantial upgrade from the doldrums the program withstood under Patrick Ewing, which included a 29-game conference losing streak and 13-50 record the

past 2 seasons.Georgetown’s targeting and landing a Big East rival looms as a considerable coup, as Cooley has actually regularly overachieved at Providence. He has reached the NCAA competition in seven of the previous 9 years it has been held, which

run consists of a Big East regular-season champion in 2021-22. Editor’s Picks Georgetown has actually reached the NCAA tournament in just one of the

past 7 years

that it has been held, and the school extended Ewing after he clinched his lone NCAA bid by winning the Big East tournament in a year that it finished 13-13. Georgetown hasn’t finished with a winning record in the Big East given that 2014-15. Thinking about Georgetown’s place in the middle of Washington, D.C., arguably the best basketball city in the country, the upside of the program is thought about greater than Providence’s. The Hoyas have actually reached 5 Final Fours in program history and won the 1984 nationwide title.Cooley will be tasked with those kinds of expectations after an effective run

at Providence, where he went 242-153 over 12 seasons.Cooley, 53, has actually been pursued for other tasks in the past, most notably Michigan in 2019 when the Wolverines eventually worked with Juwan Howard. He withdrew from the job after discussions with Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel, returning to a multiyear agreement extension with Providence.Providence authorities went to excellent lengths to attempt to keep Cooley again this time, with sources stating he was used a long-lasting handle a

pay raise.Cooley, a Providence local, has spent his whole training profession in New England. He began as an assistant coach at UMass Dartmouth and Stonehill College, his alma mater. He then invested a year as an assistant coach at Rhode Island prior to following Al Skinner to Boston College for a years as his assistant.Cooley’s first head-coaching job came at Fairfield, where he led the Stags to a MAAC regular-season title in 2011 before being worked with at his hometown school to change Keno Davis.In 12 seasons with the Friars, Cooley won the Big East conference tournament in 2014, which resulted in the program’s 2nd tournament title in its history. This season, Providence began 14-3 total and

6-0 in conference play prior to having a hard time down the stretch en path to a first-round NCAA competition exit to Kentucky, 61-53.