Georgetown men’s basketball coach Ed Cooley threw his water bottle into the home crowd after a loss to Xavier Saturday night, Dec. 20, appearing to hit a child sitting on his mother’s lap behind the bench.
Cooley had just watched his team miss 18 free throws in an 80-77 loss to Xavier and then miss a 3-point shot attempt at the buzzer that would have tied the game at the end of regulation.
Cooley opened his postgame press conference with an apology to the family.
"Definitely out of character for me to be so frustrated but, really, that’s not called for and I’ll call them and make amends to them," he told reporters. "So I apologize to the fans, I apologize to our players. Totally, totally out of character for me to be that way."
The Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY Network, identified the family to whom Cooley apologized as that of Georgetown center Vince Iwuchukwu, who is out after needing an undisclosed medical procedure last month.
