NORTHFIELD, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's basketball team hits the road on Saturday, heading to Carleton's West Gym for a 1 p.m. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game against the Knights.

The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (4-9 MIAC | 6-11 Overall) at Carleton Knights (8-4 MIAC | 11-6 Overall)
 
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Last Action:
• Saint Mary's: Augsburg outscored the Cardinals 47-35 in the first half and never let them get closer than eight over the game's final 20 minutes in handing Saint Mary's a 75-64 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference setback at Si Melby Hall in Minneapolis, Minn. | Recap
• Carleton: The Knights erased an eight-point second-half deficit and rallied for a 75-72 MIAC win over Saint John's Wednesday at Sexton Arena in Collegeville, Minn. | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Carleton—Earlier This Year:
• December 16, 2015 * Winona, Minn.:  The Knights shot a blistering 52 percent from the field—and knocked down eight of their 14 3-point attempts—in handing the Cardinals a 71-48 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference setback at the Saint Mary's Gym | Recap

Saint Mary's vs. Carleton—A Year Ago:
• January 19, 2015 * Winona, Minn.: Nick Ogren (Stillwater, Minn.) was virtually unstoppable for the Cardinals in the opening 20 minutes of their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game against Carleton—draining his first four 3-point field goal attempts. And when the Knights clamped down on Ogren in the second half, Connor Kaiser (Rockland, Wis.) stepped up when the Cardinals needed it most—draining a 3-pointer and completing a three-point play on back-to-back possessions to pull Saint Mary's even, 57-57 with less than two minutes remaining in regulation. Over those final 120 seconds, however, Carleton scored the game's final four points in handing the Cardinals a heartbreaking 61-57 setback at the Saint Mary's Gym | Recap
• February 18, 2015 * Northfield, Minn.: Saint Mary's put three players in double figures—led by Will Swiggum (St. Charles, Minn.) with 14—but the Cardinals could not keep pace with Carleton in the second half, as the Knights pulled away for a 75-59 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win at West Gym | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals step out of conference play on Tuesday, traveling to Chicago, Ill., for a 7 p.m. nonconference contest against Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Carleton: The Knights return to West Gym in Northfield, Minn., on Wednesday, entertaining Concordia in a 7 p.m. MIAC matchup.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2015-16 Roster | 2015-16 Statistics | 2015-16 Schedule
• Saturday's game against Carleton is the second of three straight road contests for the Cardinals, who have posted their of their six wins away from the Saint Mary's Gym. … Last Monday's 71-62 loss to Gustavus snapped the Cardinals' two-game winning streak. …  The Cardinals snapped a season-high seven-game losing streak with their 70-59 win over Hamline on Jan. 20. … Saint Mary's victory over Macalester last Saturday was its sixth of the season—giving the Cardinals their most wins since the 2010-11 season, when the Cardinals finished 9-16. … 
Kevin Gleason (Minneapolis, Minn.) led a trio of Cardinal double-figure scorers in Wednesday's 75-64 loss to Augsburg, scoring 13 points. Wylie Ferron (Waconia, Minn.) chipped in 12 points and Aaron Romportl (Stillwater, Minn.)—who scored a career-high 20 points against Macalester last Saturday—finished with 10. … The Cardinals have had a player score 20 or more points in a game seven times this season. … Connor Kaiser (Rockland, Wis.) has recorded three of the team's seven 20-point performances, while Romportl, Ferron (22), Will Swiggum (St. Charles, Minn. / 21), and Gleason (20) have accounted for the other four. … Ferron's 22-point effort against St. Olaf on Jan. 9 and Gleason's 20-point showing against Augsburg on Dec. 9 were both career highs. … Swiggum fell one rebound short (17 points, 9 rebounds) of his team-leading third double-double of the season last Monday against Gustavus. … Swiggum—who owns seven career games of 20 or more points—heads into Saturday's game at Carleton with 974 career points, leaving him just 26 points shy of becoming the 26^th Cardinal player to score 1,000 points. … Quashingm Smith-Pugh (St. Paul, Minn.) recorded his first collegiate double-double against Macalester last Saturday, scoring 16 points and adding a career-high 12 rebounds, while Ferron has also collected a double-double this season—putting together a 14-point, 10-rebound effort against Concordia on Jan. 13. … Swiggum owns 10 career double-doubles, while Ferron has two. … Ferron hauled in a career-high 11 boards against Bethel on Jan. 11. … Braden Walbeck (Fall Creek, Wis.) has scored a career-high 14 points twice this season. … Kaiser scored a season- and career high-tying 22 points against Martin Luther on Nov. 24. Kaiser's 22-point showing vs. the Knights on Nov. 24 marked the second time in as many meetings with Martin Luther that the Cardinal senior has scored a career-best 22 points. … The Cardinals have had six different players lead them in scoring this season. … Kaiser and Smith-Pugh head into Saturday's conference game at Carleton averaging in double figures at 11.5 ppg and 11.4 ppg, respectively. … Swiggum is the team's rebounding leader with 129 (7.6 rpg). … Swiggum has had 10 or more rebounds in a game four times this season—including a season- and career-best 16-rebound effort against Martin Luther on Nov. 24. … The Cardinals have netted a season-high 10 3-pointers twice this season… Romportl owns a team-high 21 3-pointers, one more than both Kaiser and Gleason. … Kaiser finished with a season-high five 3-pointers against Saint John's on Jan. 2. … Smith-Pugh leads the team in assists with 46 and Mark Schumacher (Perham, Minn.) is the team-leader in blocks with 11. … Romportl is the team's steals leader with 13, one more than Walbeck. … Saint Mary's equaled its season high with 24 made free throws against Hamline on Jan. 20. The Cardinals also drained 24 free throws against St. Olaf on Jan. 9. … Saint Mary's has scored 80 or more points in three of its six wins this season—including a season-high 85-point effort in its 85-70 win over Macalester on Dec. 5. … The Cardinals' 85 points vs. the Scots marked the highest offensive output since Saint Mary's tossed in 87 in an 87-80 victory over Macalester on Dec. 4, 2010. … Saint Mary's is averaging 69.2 ppg. … Saint Mary's boasted a season-high five players in double figures in the Cardinals' first meeting against Macalester—an 85-70 win—on Dec. 5. … The Cardinals snapped an 11-game losing streak against Augsburg with their Dec. 9, 68-65 victory.
 
Scouting The Carleton Knights:
2015-16 Roster | 2015-16 Statistics | 2015-16 Schedule
• With their overtime win over Saint John's on Wednesday, the Knights completed a season sweep of SJU and moved into a second-place tie in the conference standings with the Johnnies. … Wednesday's win over Saint John's was Carleton's 11^th of the season—equaling its win total of a year ago—with eight games still to play. … With the victory over Saint John's, the Knights have now won eight road contests this season—the most since 2009-10, when Carleton won 10 games away from West Gym en route to a berth in the NCAA tournament. … Wednesday's win over Saint John's also snapped the Knights' two-game losing streak. Carleton is 4-2 in its last six games. … Carleton has now played three overtime games this season—winning all three. Along with their victory over Saint John's on Wednesday, the Knights also have OT wins over Concordia (87-86) and Gustavus (64-53). … Kevin Grow scored a game-high 25 points and added a career-high 19 rebounds against Saint John's. … Grow scored 10 of his game-high 25 points vs. the Johnnies in overtime. … Grow's 19 rebounds were the most by a Carleton player since Tanner Schieck had 20 boards against Augsburg on Jan. 19, 2002. … Beau Smit and Mitchell Biewen also scored in double figures vs. SJU Wednesday, netting 17 and 14 points, respectively. … Carleton heads into Saturday's matchup with Saint Mary's boasting three players who are averaging in double figures—Tianen Chen (15.5 ppg), Grown (14.8 ppg), and Biewen (11.3 ppg). … Beau Smit owns the team's single-game season-high with 29 points against Hamline on Jan. 13. … Carleton has had a player net 26 or more points in a game six times—Chen has done it three times (27, 26, 26), Grow twice (28, 26) and Smit once (29). … Grow has also hauled in a team-best 164 rebounds (9.6 rpg), while amassing 36 blocks. … Quinn Johnson owns team-highs in assists (48) and steals (20). … Johnson is one of five Knight players with 30 or more assists. … Carleton has drained 89 3-pointers, with Biewen (36), Peter Bakker-Arkema (28), and Smit (18) accounting for 82 of them. … As a team, Carleton is averaging 68.1 ppg, and has scored 70 or more points in a game six times—including a season-high 97-point effort in a season-opening 94-67 win over Crown on Nov. 16.