HONOLULU — For a solid week, the Nevada Wolf Pack had an answer for everything tossed their way.

On Sunday, it was Kenan Blackshear.

The Pack point guard of significant size – 6 feet 6 – went 7-for-7 from the field in the second half of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic championship game and put in 30 points to lead Nevada over Georgia Tech, 72-64 in front of a few hundred fans at the Stan Sheriff Center.

“They’re a good team, they have some good wins. Mississippi State, Duke,” said Blackshear, who scored 21 after halftime. “I was like, OK, a very experienced, high-level team, so I just came out with the mentality of just kill, really.”

Nevada became the second Mountain West team to raise a Diamond Head Classic trophy in the 14 years of the nationally televised college basketball tournament, after San Diego State in 2016.

The Pack (12-1) swatted away the Yellow Jackets (8-4) of the Atlantic Coast Conference repeatedly down the stretch and coach Steve Alford raised the tournament trophy overhead.

"It's a great Christmas present," Alford said.

Every time Damon Stoudamire's Jackets encroached within a basket in the second half, the Pack had an answer, usually in the form of Blackshear or tournament Most Outstanding Player Jarod Lucas, the shooting guard who scored 20 to finish the tournament with an average of better than 22 points per game, best among all players in the eight-team event. He was 18-for-18 from the foul line for the tournament.

The Pack guards were a hard cover for Temple, TCU and Tech as Blackshear could finish through contact in the paint while Lucas had to be respected from outside at all times; he was 9-for-23 from long range (39%) for the tournament.

“I love Jarod Lucas. I am a fan of Jarod Lucas,” Blackshear said. “His shooting is crazy. He always tells me, this is what we get paid for, this is what we live for, these moments right here. I’m so proud of him. … Have a goldfish mentality, as they say, and keep shooting.”

GaTech freshman forward Baye Ndongo went 7-for-8 from the floor for 20 points and finished 23-for-26 for the tournament, setting a field-goal percentage record at 88.5%.

Nevada completed a four-game sweep on Oahu since Dec. 17, beating Hawaii in a prelude game then blowing through the three games of the DHC with an average margin of victory of 12.8.

“I think we’re better than what we were when we got to the island, and that’s always something that’s very special,” Alford said. “Not a lot of teams have come over here and won four in a row.”

Nevada hosts Division II Fresno Pacific on Dec. 30 to wrap up its nonconference season and opens MWC play at Fresno State on Jan. 6.

Lucas, Blackshear, Ndongo, UMass forward Josh Cohen and TCU guard Emanuel Miller comprised the all-tournament team.

Brian McInnis covers the state's sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.