In addition to center Chris Sodom – dismissed from the team at midseason, he had transferred to George Washington – Georgetown had lost four players since the conclusion of the previous season: guards Trey Dickerson, Jonathan Mulmore, and three-season walk-on Ra'Mond Hines had graduated, and, most notably, the team's second-leading scorer, forward Marcus Derrickson, had foregone his senior year of college to enter the 2018 National Basketball Association draft. However, a core of veteran players – junior Jagan Mosely and sophomore Jahvon Blair at guard, sophomores Jamorko Pickett and Antwan Walker at forward, and senior guard/forward Kaleb Johnson – returned. Junior forward George Muresan, the son of former NBA player Gheorghe Muresan, made the team as a walk-on for the third straight season. Forward Trey Mourning, who had missed the entire 2017–2018 season due to injury, also returned to action in 2018–2019 as a redshirt senior, and the team hoped his perimeter shooting talents would pay dividends on offense. Most significantly, center Jesse Govan, the team's top scorer, who initially had indicated after the end of the previous season that he, like Derrickson, would leave school to enter the 2018 NBA draft, had changed his mind and decided to play his senior year at Georgetown in 2018–2019.