Georgetown College men's basketball received multiple honors at the postseason Mid-South Conference banquet.

Redshirt-sophomore Russ Middleton earned MSC All-Academic, earning a 3.25 grade point average or higher with a sophomore or higher standing.

Senior Maurice Pearson earned First-Team All-Conference, while senior Johonne Hamilton, junior Garel Craig and senior Jordan DeMercy were named to the honorable mention team.

All-American's for men's and women's basketball was just released. For the third straight year, Georgetown men's basketball has a representative; while on the women's side it is has had two in the past three seasons.

Senior Maurice Pearson, who battled injuries his final three seasons as a Tiger, scored 1,005 points in the Orange & Black and when healthy helped to guide GC down low. He averaged 15.2 points per game and 8.5 rebounds per game with 12 double-doubles. His last basket in the semifinal game of the Mid-South Conference tournament gave him 1,000 for his career, but unfortunately due to a knee injury he played only one game in the final four of the season.

A pair of familiar tournament foes faced off on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship as Mountain State (W.Va.) topped Georgetown (Ky.) 83-76. The Cougars are now 5-0 all-time against the Tigers at the national tournament.

Mountain State will play No. 2 Oklahoma Baptist on Monday at 8 p.m. CDT in the final semifinal contest of the day.

No. 14 Georgetown (Ky.) used a 46-24 second-half scoring burst to eliminate Southern-New Orleans (La.), 78-52, in the final game of the second round in the 2012 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship. The Tigers head to their eighth quarterfinal since 1998 with the late contest on Saturday at 8 p.m. CDT. They battle No. 11 Mountain State (W.Va.), a team that beat Georgetown last year in the semifinals.

"I am proud of our guys," said Georgetown head coach Chris Briggs. "I really thought Garel Craig stepped up. I thought Jordan Demercy made some plays and Josh Lockett played well in place of Maurice Pearson. We are going to work as hard as we can, and I thought for the most part, we did that."

The nation's fifth-ranked field-goal percentage team (49.6) struggled mightily to connect in the first half on Thursday, but they recovered in time to gain control in the second half. No. 14 Georgetown (Ky.) made only 10-of-33 shots in the opening stanza and was forced to dig in on the glass and on the defensive end to claim a 70-62 victory over Lee (Tenn.) in a first-round contest at the 2012 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.

"I kept telling them to stop getting frustrated and to keep playing. It was good that we could tough it out," said Georgetown coach Chris Briggs. "We got some stops defensively, not every time, but when we needed them we got them."