It was too good to be true--in the spring of 1968, Georgetown signed a prospect from Chicago's Loyola Academy that averaged 20 points and 20 rebounds a game. His name was Mark Mitchell, and the tale of his 20/20 senior season made it into every year's media guide. Except it wasn't true.

There was a 20 point scorer at Loyola named Mark Mitchell, but he didn't go to Georgetown. That was a guard named Mark D. Mitchell, while Mark S. Mitchell, with an otherwise respectable mark of 14 points as a senior at Loyola, joined the Hoyas in 1968. His 10 point average on the freshman team foretold a much different story with the varsity.

Mitchell was not a mobile center and it led him to spend most of his three seasons as a reserve. Early highlights included a tip-in at the buzzer to defeat American in the 1969-70 season opener and an eight point effort off the bench versus LSU in the 1970 NIT, but Mitchell's college output was just not what the media guides would have suggested. Over his final two seasons he played in 47 of the team's 53 games, with a 4.4 point, 5.0 rebound average as career best. Mitchell shot 43 percent from the field as a senior in 1971-72, but averaged less than four attempts per game while backing up another 6-8 center, junior college transfer Ron Lyons.