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2024-25 Men's Basketball Roster

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40 George Smith

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Salem, N.H.
  • Highschool Brooks School

Biography

Career Honors
2024-25: Academic All-Ivy
Ivy League Rookie of the Week (1/3/22)
 
2024-25: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in all 27 games, making 13 starts … Averaged 5.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game and had 38 assists and 14 steals … In Ivy play, made 11 starts and averaged 6.6 ppg and 3.3 rpg with 21 assists and nine steals … Hit double figures four times on the season … Hit for 14 points and added three rebounds and two assists in win over UMES (11/7) … Went for 14 points, four boards and four assists in Ivy win over Columbia (1/25) … Followed up with a season-high 18 and five boards against Brown (1/31) … Recorded 10 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals in Ivy win over Dartmouth (2/21) … Had seven points, a team-high eight rebounds, and three assists in home game with Princeton (2/7) ... NABC Honors Court ... Academic All-Ivy.
 
2023-24: (Game-by-Game in PDF) One of three players to play in all 29 games, making 19 starts … Averaged 4.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, adding 40 assists, 26 steals and two blocked shots … Knocked down 23 three-point field goals … Only double-figure scoring game came in Cathedral of College Basketball Classic, 10 against Monmouth (11/26) … Added four assists, two rebounds and two steals against the Hawks … Scored five points, tied for team-high honors with six rebounds in Penn’s 76-72 win over No. 21 Villanova (11/13) … Scored eight points in four consecutive Ivy League games: at Brown (2/2), at Yale (2/3), at Princeton (2/10), vs. Yale (2/16) … Matched his season high with six boards against the Bulldogs in New Haven … Also had four assists at UMES (11/18).
 
2022-23: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 23 games … Totaled 129 points, 89 rebounds, 24 assists, 12 steals and two blocked shots … Hit double figures in the scoring column four times … Led Penn in rebounds in three games … Finished one point shy of a double-double with nine points—on a trio of treys—and 10 rebounds in an Ivy win over Yale (2/17) … Had back-to-back 14-point games in Ivy wins over Harvard (1/28) and Columbia (2/3) … Also had six rebounds and five assists against the Crimson, and four boards vs. the Lions … Recorded 12 points, five rebounds and three assists in the return matchup with Harvard in Cambridge (2/11) … Opened the season with 10 points and six rebounds at Iona (11/7) … Had six points and nine rebounds in Ivy Tournament loss at Princeton (3/11) … One week earlier against the Tigers (3/4), stuffed the stat sheet with four points, six boards, two assists, a steal and a blocked shot … Went for eight points, two rebounds and two assists in an Ivy win over Cornell (2/4) … Scored six points in consecutive games, all on three-pointers, during road trip to Yale (1/21) and Hartford (1/23).
 
2021-22: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Played in 25 of 28 games, making 11 starts in Ivy League and postseason play … Averaged 5.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, numbers that jumped to 7.8 ppg and 3.8 rpg in Ivy play … Had four double-figure scoring games, three of them in Ivy play, and one double-figure rebound game in Ancient Eight action … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (conference): Second in FT percentage (.861), t-15th in steals per game (1.0) … Led Penn with 23 points, added four rebounds in Ivy-opening win over Brown (1/2) and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week afterward … The following week, scored 14 points with four boards, one assist and a steal vs. Columbia (1/8) … The next weekend, dropped 12 points, four rebounds and five assists in a win over Dartmouth (1/15) … Other double-figure scoring game came at La Salle (12/11), where he had 10 points … Near double-double with nine points and a team-high 10 rebounds to go with two steals at Princeton (1/17) … Went for seven points, seven rebounds and two steals in Ivy win over Yale (1/22) … Recorded seven points, four steals and two rebounds in Ivy win at Columbia (2/4), followed up with eight points and three boards in a win at Cornell (2/5) … Had seven points and three rebounds in home win over Harvard (2/12) … Eight points, two rebounds, two assists at Yale (2/18).
 
High School: Played for Brooks’ First Varsity basketball team under head coach John McVeigh in 2019-20 … Led Brooks to the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC) Class B final … Earned first-team Independent School League (ISL) all-conference and first-team NEPSAC Class B All-Star honors … MVP of the 2020 Harrington Classic … The ISL did not play in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic … Prior to Brooks, lettered three times in hoops at Central Catholic and won Merrimack Valley Conference (MVC) titles in 2016-17 and 2018-19 … Two-time All-Star selection by The Eagle-Tribune … Scored more than 1,000 points and hit more than 200 three-point baskets across his high school career … His Middlesex Magic AAU team won the 2019 Hoop Group Showcase League (HGSL) championship … Graduated Summa Cum Laude … Distinction in mathematics … Cum Laude Society member … Highest Honors.
 
Personal: Enrolled in the Wharton School.

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Historical Player Information

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    2021-22Freshman

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    6'4" 200 lbs
    40
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    2022-23Sophomore

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    6'4" 205 lbs
    40
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    2023-24Junior

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    6'4" 205 lbs
    40
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    C

    2024-25Senior

    G
    6'4" 210 lbs
    40
    C