• 1: The Saint Mary’s women’s basketball team’s 81-79 loss to UW-Stevens Point last Wednesday was its first overtime game of the season. The Cardinals played just one overtime game a year ago, falling to Hamline 75-71 on Nov. 23, 2021. The Cardinals played a single-season, program-record four overtime games during the 2019-20 season, including three that were decided by two points.
• 5: The Cardinal men’s basketball team’s 73-66 victory over No. 7 UW-La Crosse last Wednesday marked the fifth time in their first eight games that the outcome was decided by 10 points or less.
• 7: The SMU men’s basketball team’s six-point, 73-66 win over No. 7 UW-La Crosse last Wednesday marked the first time in program history the Cardinals had beaten a team ranked in the Top 10 in the country.
• 7: Izzy Goettelman (Winona, Minn.) matched the team’s single-game season-high with seven assists in the SMU women’s basketball team’s two-point, 81-79 overtime loss to UW-Stevens Point last Wednesday.
• 10: Graysin Hartjes (Kaukauna, Wis.) scored a career-high 10 points in the SMU women’s basketball team’s 81-79 overtime loss to UW-Stevens Point last Wednesday. Hartjes is the third Cardinal this season to post a single-game career-high of 10 or more points.
• 23: Breyton Buysman (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) poured in a career-high 23 points in leading the Cardinal men’s basketball team to a 73-66 win over seventh-ranked UW-La Crosse last Wednesday. Saint Mary’s has now had a player score 20 or more points in six of its eight games this season
• 23: Izzy Goettelman (Winona, Minn.) scored a career-high 23 points in the Cardinal women’s basketball team’s 81-79 overtime loss to UW-Stevens Point last Wednesday. The 23-point effort marked the second time this season — and third time in her collegiate career — that Goettelman has eclipsed the 20-point mark.
• 36: The SMU men’s basketball team’s 73-66 win over No. 7 UW-La Crosse last Wednesday was its first against the Eagles in 36 years, snapping a six-game losing streak that dated back to a 65-50 win on Nov. 24, 1986.
