WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University men's basketball team defeated the Morgan State Bears, 87-70, on opening night of the 2025-26 college basketball season at home in Washington, D.C. at Capital One Arena. With the win, Georgetown improves to 1-0 on the season while the Bears drop to 0-1.
 
ON THE RECORD
"I like Morgan State's team. I like them a lot. I think they're going to be really good, I think they're going to do really, really well in their league. They have great size, their guards can score and they can shoot. I think overall, just like we have shown in our exhibition games and in Canada, I think our overall depth was able to wear them down a little bit, and I thought the guys that came off the bench gave us incredible energy. These two guys up here, Jayden Fort and DeShawn Harris-Smith, I think were game changers for us, right, just with their physicality." - Head Coach Ed Cooley
 
"I thought our energy was great in the shootaround, I thought the energy was great in the locker room. Coaches always tell me, fly around. So I know that if I get active and I'm on the glass, everything is gonna come to me. So that was my focus going into the game. I'm getting a little comfortable out there. You know, it's my first real year with last year being a redshirt. This year, I'm trying to get my feet under myself. So it's been fun. It's been a great learning experience." - Jayden Fort
 
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• KJ Lewis led a trio of Hoyas in double figures with a team-best 14 points on 4-for-7 shooting (57.1%) and a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw. Lewis also added five rebounds and three steals.
• Malik Mack tallied 11 points on three made buckets and a 4-for-5 performance from the free throw line.
• DeShawn Harris-Smith followed up with 10 points on 4-for-7 shooting and a perfect 2-for-2 performance from the free throw line.
• Julius Halaifonua led the Blue & Gray on the glass, grabbing a game-best eight rebounds while Jayden Fort and Lewis followed up with 6 and 5, respectively.
• Vincent Iwuchukwu tallied a game-best four rejections while Fort recorded a trio and the Hoyas tallied 11 as a squad.
• Kayvaun Mulready recorded a career-high four steals on the night to lead the Hoya defense.
• Georgetown shot 43.1% (28-65) from the floor while going 27-for-39 from the free throw line.
• GU outrebounded the Bears 40-37 on the glass.
• The Hoyas forced 16 turnovers on 11 steals while committing just seven turnovers of their own.
• Monsters in the paint, Georgetown managed 38 points in the paint to Morgan State's 22.

 
MORGAN STATE HIGHLIGHTS

• Rob Lawson led the Morgan State offense with a game-best 20 points going 5-for-9 from the field (55.6%) while also going a perfect 7-for-7 from the free throw line. Al Worrell Jr. followed Lawson closely, chipping in 14 points of his own.
• Dallas James led on the glass, grabbing six boards for the Morgan State defense while Lawson contributed five.
• Lawson paced the offense dishing out a squad-best four assists.
• The Bears shot 39.7% (23-58) for the game and landed 7-of-18 from three-point range (38.9%).

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Hoyas got off to a slow start as Morgan State took advantage early, leading by as many as six (11-5) early. The Hoyas began to chip away, stringing together a 12-2 run fueled almost entirely by the charity stripe as all but five points came from free throws.
• Both teams traded points before the Hoyas reeled off 11 unanswered, sandwiched by Mack buckets on both sides and featuring five from Lewis, for the 31-21 lead.
• Georgetown would lead by as many as 13 (42-29) before the Bears closed the frame on a 5-0 run. The squads went into the locker room with the Hoyas up 42-34.
• The second half saw a fired up Hoya team come out on the floor and the lead ballooned to as many as 29 on a Lewis fastbreak dunk.
• The Hoyas cruised to the 87-70 victory with 11 Hoyas in the scoring column.

 
UP NEXT
Georgetown will be back in action on Friday, November 7 when the squad travels to College Park, Maryland to take on the University of Maryland Terrapins. Tipoff at Xfinity is scheduled for 6 p.m. and the game will be available on FS1 with Jason Horowitz calling the play-by-play and LaPhonso Ellis providing analysis. The game can be heard locally on Bloomberg 99.1FM as well as on the SiriusXM app with Rich Chvotkin, in his 52nd season as the Voice of the Hoyas, calling the action.