We recently had the opportunity to talk with Hoya alum and head coach of Savannah State, Horace Broadnax. You can find the first part of the interview here. Here’s the rest of that interview:

Hoya Hoops: Hoya fans should know that your team comes to the D.C. area to take on the Maryland Terrapins just after New Year’s. Would it be nice for you to see a bunch of Georgetown fans crash the party and root for the Tigers at College Park?

Horace Broadnax: Oh yeah, that’d be great. If a lot of people come out and show up, that would be super-duper! Anybody that can come through that’d be great; we need all the help we can get. I know Gary Williams might want to avenge some of those losses against a former Hoya player. It’s going to be a good challenge for the kids. It’s a good experience to see how the other half of college basketball lives.

HH: I don’t know how many Hoya fans have blue and orange shirts to wear to the game, though.

HB: It used to be a rivalry - I know that when we were there, everybody wanted us to play Maryland. I think in the early 1970’s, late 70’s, Maryland and Georgetown played, and Maryland was the Big Dog in the city, and I think they got upset a couple of times. We never played when Lefty [Dreisell] and Coach Thompson were there, but hey, they can come out and wear the blue and gray and taunt the Maryland fans.

HH: I can’t let you go without asking you about the 1984 National Championship game, what sticks out about that game for you after all of these years?

HB: Houston had a tremendous, talented team. I think it was their third Final Four and their second final game in two years. I know that Akeem [Olajuwon] got in foul trouble early, and I remember scoring two points because he couldn’t pick up his third or fourth foul, so I took it and laid it in and he got out of the way. I knew that if he didn’t have those fouls he probably would’ve batted it into the tenth row. It was a great game, but that year, what I remember most - I mean winning the championship was great - was winning that semifinal game against Kentucky, where in the second half we held them scoreless for about 10-11 minutes. I try to instill some of this - or at least tell some of the stories - to these guys about cohesiveness and defensive effort, how we always covered each other’s back. Those were some good times.