Senior Profile: Mikael Hopkins

Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY SportsMikael Hopkins entered Georgetown with incredible promise and leaves as one of the most polarizing players of his class. Athletically gifted, defensively aggressive, and offensively inept, Hopkins could be frustrating to watch but ultimately carved out a role in the rotation that he fulfilled well. Unfortunately for Georgetown fans, that role turned out to be less than what we needed, and certainly less than what we wanted.

Hopkins' freshman year also marked the emergence of Henry Sims as a true center who could play a good 35 minutes per game (we often forget some centers didn't require offense / defense substitutions the entire game...). As a result, we saw very…