I lied, but wouldn’t that be nice? However, there will in fact be a Hoya basketball player very close to the Oval Office.

President-elect Barack Obama announced today that James L. Jones, a 1966 graduate of Georgetown and a member of the basketball team, will be his new National Security Advisor.

While you’re at it President Obama, might I suggest Patrick Ewing and John Thompson Jr. as personal body guards? Who knows, it could work…