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2018-19 Men's Basketball Roster
Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- G
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 170
- Prev School:
- Deep Run HS
- Hometown:
- Ponce, Puerto Rico
2018-19 (Jr.)
- Played in all 36 games including 35 starts.
- Averaged 7.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.
- Sealed Liberty's win in the ASUN Championship with a three-pointer with 17 seconds left.
- Ranked second in the ASUN from three-point range, averaging 47.4 percent.
- Moved into Liberty's Top 50 all-time scorers as he finished the season ranked No. 30 with 929 career points.
- Ranked first in the ASUN in assists/turnover ratio with a 2.5 ratio.
- Scored a season-high 18 points vs. NJIT on Feb. 2 and vs. Dec. 11 vs. South Carolina State.
- Ranked No. 15 in the ASUN in assists.
2017-18 (So.)
• Preseason All-Big South selection.
• Played and started in all 37 games this season.
• Ended the season with 669 career points, which ranks No. 45 on Liberty's all-time scoring list.
• Averaged 9.9 points, 2.5 assists and 2.5 rebounds per game.
• Made ESPN's SportsCenter on Dec. 4 after hitting a three-pointer buzzer-beater to defeat Georgia State in overtime.
• Made a career-high seven three-pointers on Jan. 2 against Charleston Southern.
• Grabbed a career-high seven rebounds on Dec. 22 against Alabama State.
2016-17 (Fr.)
• Named to the Big South All-freshman team
• Named Big South Freshman of the week twice
• Played in all 35 games with 33 starts
• Played the most minutes of any Liberty player, averaging the second most minutes per game (31.0)
• Scored a career-high 29 points at Gardner-Webb (Feb. 9, 2017)
• Averaged the second most assists on the team (2.6)
• Ranked first during Big South games with a 3.4 assist-to-turnover ratio
• Went 122 minutes without committing a turnover from Jan. 14, 2017 at Radford until Jan. 26, 2017 at Longwood
Prep
• Spent his freshman year of high school at Colegio Ponceno
• Three-year letter winner at Deep Run HS in Glen Allen, Va.
• Earned first team all-conference, second team all-metro, and third team all-region honors his junior year
• Closed out his career at Deep Run with 1,095 points
• Garnered first team all-conference, all-state, all-region, and second team all-metro accolades as a senior
• Averaged 7.2 ppg as a member of the Puerto Rican national team in the U16 Americas Championship (2013), helping the team finish in fourth place
• Competed in the U17 World Championships for Puerto Rico in 2014, finishing in fifth place
• Most recently played in the U18 Americas Championship in July, averaging 9.0 ppg and finishing in fourth place
Personal
• Son of Jorge Luis Pacheco and Cristina Ortiz
• Curtis and Stephanie Kassab (host family)
• Birthday is June 21
• Intending to major in sport management with aspirations of becoming a sports agent
