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Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed offered men's basketball coach Patrick Ewing a vote of confidence amid one of the worst seasons in program history. In a statement released on Wednesday, Reed said the school is committed to the Hoyas legend and that it is working with him to evaluate the program in an effort to make changes necessary for success next season.

"As a university with high standards and expectations for both academic and athletic excellence, we all share the disappointment of a difficult season," said Reed. "In this ever evolving landscape of college athletics we are committed to Coach Ewing, and we are working with him to evaluate every aspect of the men's basketball program and to make the necessary changes for him to put us back on the path to success for next year. 

"Coach Ewing's dedication as well as his success in last year's Big East Tournament is a testament to his leadership," he added. "This gives us confidence that he can strengthen our program going forward."

Ewing's Hoyas are 6-22 on the season, winless in Big East Conference play and on a school-record 18-game losing streak entering Wednesday night's penultimate regular season contest against Seton Hall. In the middle of all the adversity, the former NCAA champion and Georgetown legend said this weekend that he wanted to return for another season, even knowing the pressure around him to win and turn the program around has been mounting.

"Of course, I want to be back here," Ewing said via ESPN.com. "But in this position and this job, whatever happens will happen. I'm hoping that I'll be back and doing something that I love at a place that I love and getting us back to being the king of the hill."

Georgetown tabbed Ewing as its coach in 2017 and he has accrued a 68-81 record with only one winning season since taking over. Coming off a promising postseason run in 2020-21 that included an NCAA Tournament appearance and a Big East Tournament title, the Hoyas have endured an historically bad season. They've already locked up a last-place finish in the Big East -- the first time for them since the league's inception more than four decades ago -- and are one loss away from tying the school record for most losses in a season -- a record set in 1971-72.