The No. 18 Georgetown College men’s basketball team (19-6, 5-4 Mid-South Conference) picked up a pivotal win over No. 6 University of the Cumberlands (19-6, 4-5 MSC), 73-61, at Davis-Reid Alumni Gym on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Isaiah Mason scored 14 of his team-high 21 points in the first half. Georgetown first took its largest lead of the first half at 12 after Bubba Leavell\u2019s layup at the 3:09 mark.<\/p>\n
Leavell and Mason both connected for 3-pointers in the closing stages to help the Tigers to a 37-25 lead at the break.<\/p>\n
Out of the locker room, Cumberlands sank consecutive 3-pointers to cut the gap to 37-31. It was still a four-point game with 4:23 left before Georgetown pulled away.<\/p>\n
Mason also grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the Tigers. Julius Edmonds added 11 points with six rebounds and two steals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Women: Georgetown 72, No. 15 Cumberlands 57<\/p>\n
In an important game for Mid-South Conference and perhaps NAIA national tournament seeding, the Georgetown College women’s basketball team (18-7, 3-6 MSC) defeated No. 15 Cumberlands (17-8, 2-7 MSC), 72-57, at home Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daisy Gale had a team-high 28 points with six rebounds, three assists and three steals. Kayra Freeman added 18 points with five steals and three rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daysha Reid reaped double figures with 13 points and four rebounds.<\/p>\n
Both Tiger teams have a Thursday bye before traveling to Cumberland (Tennessee) on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 18 Georgetown College men’s basketball team (19-6, 5-4 Mid-South Conference) picked up a pivotal win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,21324,1609,231,772,10805,5194,1544,66],"class_list":["post-601678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-georgetown-university","tag-indoor-sports","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-division-i-championships","tag-ncaa-division-i-men","tag-ncaab","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116065747836528901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}