WINONA, Minn. — On 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 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."