A pass-first, shoot-second point guard, Kansas University senior Aaron Miles didn’t try to reinvent himself at last week’s Portsmouth (Va.) Invitational Tournament for NBA scouts.

“I played the way I normally play — play to win and make it a team game, get my teammates involved,” Miles said Sunday, a day after being named winner of the tourney’s sportsmanship award.

Kentucky’s Chuck Hayes earned MVP honors.

“We tried to win the tournament. That didn’t happen, but we did win two of three games,” the 6-foot-1 Miles said.

Miles, who scored 16 points off 4-of-11 shooting with 22 assists and 13 turnovers in three games, impressed quickly in the sportsmanship department. He took just three shots and failed to score, yet he created for teammates in leading his Norfolk Naval Shipyard squad to a 103-69 victory in the tourney opener.

“Aaron did not score, but dominated the game completely by controlling the tempo, running his team to perfection and completely shutting down his man,” said Jonathan Givony, deputy director of scouting of draftcity.com, who watched every minute of Miles’ three games.

“The first five minutes, Aaron was tenacious. I’ve never seen him with that much intensity. The second his man crossed the halfcourt line, he got in his grill,” Givony added. “All he seemed to care about was making his teammates look good.”

Miles, who had six assists and four turnovers in the opening victory, scored six points off 1-of-2 shooting with three assists and two turnovers in Game Two, a 92-59 blowout loss.

In the consolation title game — an 88-87 victory — he scored 10 points off 3-of-6 shooting with 13 assists and seven turnovers.

“I didn’t shoot much. The opportunity didn’t really present itself. The last game it presented itself a bit, but I still only took six shots,” Miles said. “I enjoyed myself. It was a lot of fun. The (sportsmanship) award is like any award, I’m very thankful.”

Miles’ teammates included Katelynas Mindaugas (UT Chattanooga), Taron Downey (Wake Forest) and Ed McCants (Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Miles and Will Conroy (Washington) were the two most impressive point guards at the event, Givony said.

“Aaron has no ego whatsoever. He was doing a great job getting everybody involved, being a vocal leader. At a camp like this, most of the guys were there trying to impress scouts. All he cared about was winning,” said Givony, who thinks Miles earned himself an invitation to the more prestigious Chicago draft camp, for 65 prospects, in June.

“The thing that might discourage people is they (scouts) all know him very, very well. If he doesn’t get in Chicago, it’s not because he’s not among the best 64 players, but (because) they know what he can do,” Givony said.

“Somebody is going to draft him, because he is going to be somebody’s back-up for 10 years. He’s not going to be (Stephon) Marbury, but he’s going to be a back-up point guard who comes off the bench, runs the team well, plays ‘D’ and gets everybody involved.”

Of a possible Chicago invitation, Miles said: “Hopefully, that’s what will happen. We’ll have to wait and see.”

On his NBA dreams, he said: “I know that whatever team I go to I’m not going to be a star, I’m going to be a contributor. So whatever they need me to do I’ll do it.”

KU senior Keith Langford did not attend the Portsmouth camp. He’s rehabilitating his injured left ankle while gearing for one-on-one workouts with NBA teams and the Chicago camp, if he can land an invitation. Regarded as a likely first-rounder, Wayne Simien has been advised not to attend the Portsmouth or Chicago camps.

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Recruiting: KU coach Bill Self and Texas’ Rick Barnes both went to see junior big man Bryan Davis of Grand Prairie (Texas) High School last week, rivals.com reports. The 6-8 forward also is considering Texas A&M, North Carolina and UConn. … KU is one of eight schools still in the running for Spencer Hawes, a 6-11 junior from Seattle. The others: North Carolina, Washington, Arizona, Duke, Stanford, UCLA and UConn.