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Game Summary / GameDay Online

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Saint Mary's University men's basketball coach Mike Trewick was hoping the second time through the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schedule would be a little more enjoyable for the Cardinals.

Unfortunately for Trewick and the Cardinals, there was nothing enjoyable Wednesday evening's conference showdown against league-leading St. Thomas.

In fact, Trewick would like nothing more than to forget Wednesday evening happened.

St. Thomas got scoring from 15 different players — including a game-high 15 points from Alex Healy — and scored more points in the second half (54) than the Cardinals did in the entire game (49), as the Tommies  rolled to a 100-49 victory.

"(St. Thomas) is a very physically strong team, and they took advantage of that against us tonight," said Trewick, whose team was outrebounded 43-24 and turned the ball over 25 times. "They dominated us on the boards and we didn't do a good job of taking care of the basketball. When you can't do those two things, you are going to have problems."

The Cardinals, who dropped their sixth straight and gave up 100 points  for the second time this season, shot 50 percent from the field in the first half (9-for-18). Unfortunately, the Tommies made as many baskets (18) as SMU attempted in racing out to a 46-23 halftime advantage.

And things just went from bad to worse for SMU over the game's final 20 minutes.,

The Cardinals shot 27 percent from the field, making just 8 of 29 field-goal attempts, while UST was draining baskets from all over the floor, connecting on 20 of 34 attempts (59 percent) en route to its 54-point second half.

"Despite what the final score might say, I thought we did some good things – we just didn't do enough of them against a very good team," said Trewick, whose team — which got 14 points from Will Wright (Chicago, Ill.) — has now lost its last 41 meetings against the Tommies, dating back to an 86-78 SMU win on Jan. 11, 1988. "It's tough, we've just got to keep plugging along."