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04-05 Record: 3-10 MIAC / 4-14 Overall
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| Last Week's Results: Saint Mary's 61, Augsburg 49 / Details Macalester 80, Saint Mary's 56 / Details |
| This Week's Games: Wed., Feb. 2: Bethel at Saint Mary's, 7:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 5: Gustavus at Saint Mary's, 3 p.m. |
| This and That: After netting career-highs in each of his last two games — 19 vs. Concordia last Sunday and 20 vs. Augsburg on Wednesday — SMU's Michael Rohr (Bloomingdale, Ill.) was held to 16 points vs. Macalester. … Rohr's 16 points did mark the third straight game in which he's led the team in scoring. … With Saturday's loss to Macalester, SMU is still searching for its first two-game winning streak. … SMU held Augsburg to just 49 points in Wednesday's win, the lowest offensive output for an opponent this season. … Three of SMU's four wins have come on the road. … Dan Kloak (Elmwood Park, Ill.) and Eric Lear (Antioch, Ill.) are SMU's lone double-figure scorers, averaging 11.7 ppg and 11.6 ppg, respectively. … SMU's opponents hold a 623-486 first-half scoring advantage. |
WINONA, Minn. — Last Wednesday, the Saint Mary's University men's basketball team seemed to finally find its shooting touch, as the Cardinals shot nearly 50 percent from the field en route to an impressive 61-49 victory over Augsburg.
Saturday afternoon, they lost it again.
And, unfortunately for the Cardinals, Macalester found it.
The Cardinals shot just 36 percent from the field in the first half, fell behind 46-27 at halftime and never recorded as the Scots — fueled by a 53 percent performance from the field and a 12-for-18 effort from behind the 3-point line — cruised to an 80-56 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win at the SMU Gym.
“We let them do what they wanted, offensively,” said SMU coach Mike Trewick, whose team went on a 9-0 run early in the second half to cut the lead to 10, but could not get any closer in falling to 3-10 in the MIAC and 4-14 overall. “When you don't defend, you don't win games.
"We didn’t defend and we didn’t execute."
Michael Rohr (Bloomingdale, Ill.) — who scored career highs in each of his last two games, netting 19 in a loss to Concordia last Sunday and tallying 20 in SMU's triumph over Augsburg — once again led the Cardinals in scoring, dropping in 16 points.
Problem was, the SMU freshman was the Cardinals' only player in double figures.
Brad Liddell led a quartet of Scots in double figures, netting a game-high 20. Erik Jackson chipped in 15 and Brendan Bosman and Will Moeller each tallied 10.
"We did not play well, plain and simple," Trewick said. "Macalester is a physical team and we didn't step up and play tough against them."