“Some have forgotten, we will remind them.”

“Respect is back, fear is next.”

You know you go to Georgetown if these vaguely threatening statements from years past bring a smile to your face. This year’s JT III shirts seemed somewhat lamer to many Hilltop students like myself. It’s hard to get really pumped up with a shirt that says “100 years of Hoya Hoops.” But the slogan proved prescient, as this season has been steeped in our hoops history.

As every avid fan knows, our mind-blowing, heart-stopping, rush-the-White-House victory over UNC was a veritable rematch of our loss to the Michael Jordan-led squad of 1982. And every article (I think it might be a journalistic requirement) about our Hoyas mentions the Ewing-Thompson duo and other father-son pairs.

Even though the student section needs to maintain that telegenic “sea of gray,” now that we’ve reached the Final Four, those of us not in Atlanta have countless more apparel options than our beloved “We are Georgetown” T’s.

Instead of donning the normal shirts, look to support the Hoyas with new basketball gear.

Ellen Winter, the merchandise manager at the bookstore, says the demand for tournament clothing has been enormous.

“There is one navy T-shirt that has really outsold all the shirts,” she explained as she combed through the racks of merchandise. She showed me the bestseller (a Nike shirt with the words “Rule the Bracket” emblazoned on it, among other phrases) and anyone currently in possession of one should count himself lucky. According to Winter, the style is completely sold out in small, medium and large sizes and the store had to rush order 1,400 more to meet the demand.

Our team’s on-court prowess has brought an eclectic crop of enthusiastic fans to the store. Emily Moellers (COL ’08), proud owner of “a lot” of the ubiquitous JT III tees, was in the bookstore picking up tournament apparel as gifts for her brothers. Sold out of the aforementioned Nike top, Moellers lamented that she “really liked the navy one with absolutely no sizes left.”

Nina Shover was picking up a trio of Georgetown shirts, including one Final Four style for her Hoyas-crazed husband. She said that the new wardrobe will come in handy when he makes the trek to Atlanta with his old Georgetown friends and roommates.

“He’s waited 22 years for this,” Shover says of her husband, who has been to every home game this season and made the trip to New York for the Big East championship and to North Carolina and New Jersey for the NCAA tournament.

Shover says that her husbdand remembers vividly when Patrick Ewing (CAS ’85) arrived on campus. Overjoyed at Georgetown’s success, Shover says that he’s been known to “cry at games to see his Hoyas.”

Hartwig Zakin (GRD ’07) was collecting Georgetown gear for his mom, brother and cousin which he’ll give to them this weekend when they meet up in Boston to watch the big game. A USC grad, he “doesn’t want UCLA to win,” but would love to see a UCLA-Georgetown championship game.

When I noted the lack of Final Four paraphernalia among his purchases, he laughed and said he’d be back next week: “I’m waiting for the national champion shirt.”