| Overall UK Wins: 2 | Overall UK Losses: 0 | Win % 100 |
Date of Birth: August 24, 1928
Date of Death: August 29, 2007
Hometown: Georgetown, KY
Alma Mater: Transylvania [1956]
For a generalized listing of officials, please consult this page.
| Date | Matchup | W/L | Score | UK Fouls | Opp Fouls | UK FTA | Opp FTA | UK DQ | Opp DQ | Technicals | Officiating Crew |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/21/1973 | Dartmouth at Kentucky | W | 102 - 77 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 0 | - | George Strauthers and Jack Wise |
| 1/4/1975 | Louisiana State at Kentucky | W | 115 - 80 | 31 | 19 | 19 | 41 | 0 | 1 | Kenny Higgs flagrant foul when chasing loose ball out of bounds with Mike Flynn (Higgs was ejected) | Don Wedge and Jack Wise |
Obituary - Lexington Herald-Leader (August 31, 2007)
by Jennifer Hewlett
George Henry "Jack" Wise Jr., a retired educator and former Scott County official who was perhaps best known throughout the state as a high school and college basketball referee, died Wednesday at his home in Georgetown, after a short illness. He was 79.
Mr. Wise was the principal of Sadieville, Great Crossing, and Southern elementary schools in Scott County over a span of 27 years. He was a former Georgetown City Council member, Scott County magistrate and assistant to former Georgetown Mayor Tom Prather.
An avid sports fan and a former high school and college athlete, Mr. Wise officiated high school and college basketball games throughout the region and state for many years. In 1970 he officiated at the first Olympic basketball camp in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was a former commissioner of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, evaluator of basketball officials for the Southeastern Conference and regional supervisor of basketball officials for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.
Mr. Wise was a 2002 Dawahare's/KHSAA Hall of Fame inductee. He also had been a championship softball player and was inducted into the Kentucky Softball Hall of Fame in 1990.
"He loved people and was a people person," said Scott County Judge-Executive George Lusby, a longtime friend and former colleague in the school system.
"I always felt like he was a leader," said Ken Wright, Scott County schools elementary instruction director and a former colleague, "Jack was just really loved by the teachers and by the students."
Mr. Wise was born in Stamping Ground and grew up on a farm in the country. He worked cutting tobacco when school was out.
A 6-foot center on the Stamping Ground High School basketball team, he was selected to play in a Kentucky-Indiana All-Star game in the late 1940s. He attended Campbellsville Junior College on a basketball scholarship for a year, then the University of South Carolina on a basketball scholarship for two years.
He was in the Army from 1953 to 1954, spending part of that time in Korea and enrolled at Transylvania College in 1955. He played baseball at Transy, assisted with the school's basketball program during his senior year and graduated in 1956.
Later that year, he was named freshman basketball coach and intramural program director at Transy. He also earned a master's degree in administration from the University of Kentucky.
Mr. Wise was a past president of the Georgetown Kiwanis Club and a member of North Lexington Church of Christ.
He resigned about a month ago from the Toyota Visitors' Center after having worked there for several years as a tour guide and tram driver.
Surviving are his wife, Betty Ann Lucas Wise; two sons, Mark Wise and Jack Anthony Wise; a daughter, Kimberly West; a brother, Billy Wise; a sister, Mary Jane Marshall; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Georgetown First Christian Church. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today at Johnson's Funeral Home in Georgetown. Memorial gifts are suggested to Hospice of the Bluegrass or a favorite charity.
