St. Mary's (Minn.) pulled off one of the most unexpected upsets of the season in a wire-to-wire win over unbeaten Bethel. Elsewhere No. 17 Scranton and Haverford pulled themselves into first place ties and No. 14 Trinity took control of the SCAC.
Bethel outscored Saint Mary's 29-21 in the second half, including scoring the game's final five points, in handing the Cardinals a 51-47 setback—and snapping their eight-game season-opening winning streak.
The Cardinals—ranked No. 14 in the latest USA Today Sports Coaches Poll and No. 16 in the D3hoops.com Top 25—raced out to leads as big as 22 in the first half, but had to survive a 20-0 Augsburg second-half run to dispatch of the Auggies 66-57 in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game at the Saint Mary's Gym.
The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team opened defense of its MIAC regular-season title with an 80-72 win over Hamline Wednesday
The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team improved to 6-0 Tuesday evening, dropping UW-La Crosse 64-49 in a nonconference game at Mitchell Hall in La Crosse, Wis.
The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team posted its fifth straight victory Saturday, cruising to a 73-38 nonconference win over Crown
The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team pushed its season-opening winning streak to four with a 68-54 nonconference win over UW-Stout Friday at the Saint Mary's Gym.
The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team rallied from a 13-point first-half deficit, collecting their third straight win, a 71-62 victory over UW-Eau Claire at Zorn Arena
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — It was a tale of two halves for the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball team Sunday afternoon against the University of Minnesota-Morris. The Cardinals owned the first half, while the Cougars had the upper hand in the game's final 20 minutes. Fortunately, the Cardinals' dominant first half proved to be enough, as Saint Mary's held off a late UM-Morris rally to post its second win of the season, 68-65 during the second day of the Saint Benedict Quinlivan & Hughes Tip-Off Tournament.
ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's basketball coach Mandy Pearson is probably hoping her Cardinals' season-opening 72-62 victory over UW-River Falls at the Saint Benedict Quinlivan & Hughes Tip-Off Tournament is a sign of good things to come.
After all, the Cardinals kicked off last year's season with a convincing win over another Wisconsin state school—UW-La Crosse—and went on to win a school school-tying 24 games and earn the program's first NCAA national tournament berth in nearly three decades.
Dave McHugh hit teams still in the hunt. Whether sitting pretty as a top seed like the Whitworth and Central men, in the hunt like the St. Mary's (Minn.) and Haverford women, or trying to get a home game, or just qualify. Plus one hardy group of seven players has a 16-hour bus ride ahead of them. Find out who.
Christopher Newport ended York's undefeated run and pulled into a virtual tie for first place in the CAC while St. Mary's (Minn.) kept first place to itself in the MIAC. Plus Amherst found enough offense for a key win and DePauw survived a scare from an unlikely foe.
Elizabethtown pulled a big upset at Messiah while the preseason favorites in the WIAC and MIAC fell. Plus Amherst and Swarthmore stayed a step ahead of their arch rivals.
WINONA, Minn. — Jamie Stefely (Lisle, Ill.) scored a game- and career-high 21 points — and added 10 rebounds for good measure — as the SMU women's basketball team cruised to a 74-62 MIAC victory over Augsburg Wednesday at the SMU Gym.
Jess Miller (Carver, Minn.) scored a game-high 21 points, but the SMU women's basketball team could not overcome a 40-16 halftime deficit in falling to league-leading Saint Benedict 73-61 Monday at the SMU Gym.
The Saint Mary's University women's basketball team got a game-high 23 points from Jess Miller (Carver, Minn.) and a career-best 15 points from Brittany Begrowicz, as the Cardinals beat Carleton 61-45 Saturday in Northfield, Minn.
Jess Miller (Carver, Minn.) and Jamie Stefely (Lisle, Ill.) each scored 16 points to lead the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team to a 67-64 MIAC win over St. Olaf Wednesday evening.
Unfortunately for Saint Mary's University women's basketball coach Mandy Pearson, her team's shooting percentage Monday night against St. Thomas was as cold as the frigid air outside. A tough first half for Cardinals — one where they shot only 24 percent from the field — enabled the Tommies to pull ahead and never let SMU back into the game en route to a 69-55 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win.
Cards draw Royal flush, upending unbeaten Bethel
February 08, 2020St. Mary's (Minn.) pulled off one of the most unexpected upsets of the season in a wire-to-wire win over unbeaten Bethel. Elsewhere No. 17 Scranton and Haverford pulled themselves into first place ties and No. 14 Trinity took control of the SCAC.
