NORTHFIELD, Minn. — The Saint Mary’s University men’s basketball team, which gave league-leading St. Thomas all it could handle before falling 82-70 at the SMU Gym on Monday, hits the road Wednesday, traveling to Carleton for a 7:45 p.m. conference showdown with the Knights.
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Saint Mary’s Cardinals (5-10 MIAC / 7-13 Overall)
Carleton Knights (8-7 MIAC / 12-8 Overall)
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Last Action: The Cardinals battled back from a 21-point halftime deficit, scoring 47 second-half points, but it was not enough, as the league-leading Tommies held off SMU
82-70 Monday evening at the SMU Gym. Carleton, meanwhile, scored 21 of the final 23 points in the first half and never looked back in handing cross-town rival St. Olaf a
76-50 setback in Northfield, Minn.
Last Meeting — January 4, 2010: Carleton closed the first half on a 14-2 run — including 11 straight points to end the half — and never let the Cardinals back into the game in handing SMU an
80-63 conference setback at the SMU Gym.
Saint Mary’s Cardinal Notes: When
Lukas Holland (La Crosse, Wis.) scored his first basket — on his first shot — during Monday’s game vs. St. Thomas, he became the 26th member of the SMU men’s basketball 1,000-point club. Holland, who enters tonight’s game at Carleton with 1,007 points, is the second SMU player to eclipse the 1,000-point mark this season —
Will Wright (Chicago, Ill.) reached the career milestone vs. Bethel on Dec. 5. … Both Holland and Wright scored their 1,000th point on SMU’s home floor. … Wright tossed in a game-high 26 points vs. the Tommies Monday. … Wright’s effort — which gives him 1,255 career points and moves him past Ryan Rankin and into 12th all time in SMU scoring history — was his highest individual performance since netting 30 vs. Augsburg on Jan. 19, 2009. Wright his five points from No. 11 George Hoder and 13 shy of No. 10 Bill Skemp. … Wright has now scored 10 or more points in all 20 games this season and 61 times in his 65 collegiate games. …
Chris Palmer (Faribault, Minn.) chipped in 13 points vs. the Tommies Monday. … Palmer leads the team with four double-doubles, and has had five other games with 10 or more points and nine rebounds. … Palmer has scored in double figures in 10 straight games and 16 times this season. … The Cardinals enter today’s game boasting three players averaging in double figures — Wright (17.7 ppg), Palmer (14.5 ppg) and Holland (14.3 ppg). … Wright ranks second in the MIAC in scoring (17.3 ppg in 15 conference games), while Palmer is fourth (15.3 ppg). … As a team, SMU ranks No. 1 in the MIAC in free throw percentage (254-for-340, 75%). … Four of the Cardinals’ seven wins have come on their home floor. … The Cardinals boasted five players in double figures in beating Gustavus for the first time in 17 years last Wednesday. The win was SMU’s first over the Gusties since Feb. 13, 1993, when the Cardinals collected a 72-70 victory. … SMU’s five double-figure scorers were the most in one game since the Cardinals had five — Terrence Smith (19), Michael Batterman (12), Brensley Haywood (12), Dan Cormier (11) and John Gencius (10) — score 10 or more points vs. Northland on Dec. 30, 2005.
Carleton Knight Notes: Monday’s win vs. St. Olaf — just four days shy of the 100th anniversary of the first Carleton-St. Olaf men’s basketball game — was the fifth straight for the Knights to begin the second half of the conference schedule. … Carleton’s Jeremy Sutherland was named MIAC Player of the Week for Jan. 25-31. In two games last week, Sutherland totaled 33 points with six steals, five rebounds, four assists, and three blocked shots. He has been the team’s second-leading scorer in each of the last four contests. … In the last five games, Sutherland’s primary defensive assignments have gone a combined 5-for-27 (18.5 percent) from the field, scoring 16 total points. … Seth Jonker notched his second career double-double (18 points, 10 rebounds) in Monday’s rout of St. Olaf. … Jonker, who has led the team in scoring in four of the last five games, has scored in double figures in 13 of the last 15 games. … Jonker leads a trio of Carleton players averaging in double figures heading into tonight’s contest vs. SMU, boasting a 13.3 ppg average. Sutherland (12.7 ppg) and Bryan Rosett (12.0 ppg) are the other two. … Rosett also leads the team in rebounding (7.5 rpg), while Blaise Davis and Sutherland have dished out 61 and 58 assists, respectively.