Game Summary

ST. PAUL, Minn. — All season long, the Saint Mary's University men's basketball team has struggled to finish what it started.

Good first-half performances were constantly for naught as ice-cold shooting and second-half collapses continually haunted the Cardinals.

Until Wednesday, that is.

The Cardinals did to Macalester what all those teams had done to them — sizzle in the second half.

Led by Jason Dzick's (Duluth, Minn.) game-high 20 points, SMU used 54 percent shooting in the second half to overcome a five-point, 33-28 halftime deficit and beat the Scots 74-69.

The Cardinals (5-14 MIAC, 5-18 overall), who snapped a season-high six-game losing streak with the win, connected on 13 of 24 second-half field goal attempts — including 5 of 9 from beyond the 3-point line — and went 15-for-26 from the free throw line in outscoring Macalester by 10 over the final 20 minutes.

Along with Dzick's game-high performance, SMU got 15 points from Ryan Wilt (Naperville, Ill.), 13 points from Brett Johnson (Onalaska, Wis.) and 11 points from Lance Larson (Oshkosh, Wis.).

Macalester (12-7 MIAC, 14-10 overall), which shot 48 percent from the field (12-for-25) in the first half, but made just 8 of 25 second-half field goal attempts, was led by Doug Benson's 20 points and Patrick Russell's 11.