Georgetown College men’s basketball honored one of its coaching legends with two one-sided wins at the 32nd annual Jim Reid Classic.
GC warded off West Virginia Tech, 97-82, in Friday’s opener before routing Midway, 107-67, in a county line clash Saturday afternoon at Davis-Reid Alumni Gym.
The No. 17 Tigers (6-2) have rebounded from an uncharacteristically slow start with five consecutive wins.
Rashad Bishop led Georgetown with 21 points against West Virginia Tech. He was 7-for-8 from the field and 7-of-9 from the foul line.
Scotty Browning sparked the Tigers at both ends of the court with 16 points, five assists and four steals. Darien Lewis chipped in 15 points and six rebounds.
Jackson Tackett (25 points) and Brandon Moore (24 points) led all scorers for West Virginia Tech.
Georgetown hit 55 percent from the field. Lewis and Bishop ignited key sequences in the first half that staked the Tigers to a 44-34 halftime lead.
Lewis landed a 3-pointer to give GC its biggest advantage of the night, 77-52, midway through the second half.
GC stepped up its shooting to 63.6 percent and blew out the Eagles in the encore.
Bishop bolstered the Tigers with a double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds on 9-of-13 from the floor.
Bubba Leavell buried four of the Tigers’ 12 threes and finished with 16 points, Aden Nyekan added 13 points and 10 boards, all on the defensive glass.
Seven Tigers scored in double digits. Isaiah Mason also tallied 13 points. Browning and Justice Small served up 12 apiece, with Small adding eight rebounds. Zion Harmon contributed 11.
Decoreio Smith led Midway (3-3) with 13 points. Sam Parrish added 12 points, while Preston Hoskins had 11.
Georgetown held Midway to 34.4 percent shooting and owned the boards by a 44-26 disparity.
Browning accounted for 12 points in the first half. He and Harmon strung together 3-pointers to give GC an early 21-15 cushion.
Leavell and Harmon went on a binge late in the half and sent Georgetown to the locker room in command, 50-32.
Mason, Nyekan and Leavell each notched nine points in the second half runaway.
The annual event honors Reid, who died of cancer in 1996 at age 48. He still has the most coaching wins (529) in the program’s rich history, winning nearly 73 percent of his games.
Reid, his fellow arena namesake Bob Davis, Happy Osborne and Chris Briggs have been the Tigers’ only four head coaches in the past 73 seasons.