Pilots vs. St. Mary' Saturday @ 7:30 - Root TV

Pilots Host Defending WCC Champion Saint Mary’s Saturday Night

Portland Pilots (8-11, 1-3) vs. Saint Mary’s Gaels (14-4, 3-1)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013
Tip-off: 7:30 p.m. (PST)
Location: Portland, Ore.
Arena: Chiles Center (4,852)
Television: ROOT Sports
Radio: 800 AM
Overall Series: 29-54
At UP: 21-20
At SMC: 7-31
At Neutral: 1-3
Last: #23 SMC 70, POR 43 (Feb. 23, 2012 at Portland)

GAME INFORMATION• Portland continues its four-game West Coast Conference homestand against defending league champion Saint Mary’s on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Chiles Center.
• The game will be carried live on ROOT Sports Northwest with Tom Glasgow, Bill Krueger and Jen Mueller on the call.
• All Portland basketball games will be broadcast live on True Talk 800 AM with Bill Johnson calling the play-by-play and a 30-minute pregame show.

ABOUT SAINT MARY’S• The Gaels (14-4, 3-1 WCC) won a thriller at BYU on Wednesday as senior PG Matthew Dellavedova drilled a 35-foot buzzer-beater for a 70-69 victory.
• Saint Mary’s trailed 20-4 early before staging the comeback and pulling off the road victory.
• The Gaels lone WCC loss was a narrow 83-78 defeat at Gonzaga last week.
• Dellavedova, the reigning WCC Player of the Year, leads the league in assists (6.5) and is sixth in scoring (17.3).
• Portland native and former Jesuit HS standout Stephen Holt is averaging 17.0 points in WCC games including a team-high 22 points at BYU.
• Head coach Randy Bennett is in his 12th season with the Gaels and posts a 249-122 record. He has guided SMC to four NCAA Tournaments and two NIT appearances.
• The Gaels have won the last three meetings with Portland, but the Pilots have won three of the last four contests played in Portland.

Saint Mary’s (14-4, 3-1) at Portland (8-11, 1-3), 7:30 p.m., CSNCA, ROOT Sports

After Saint Mary’s thrilling win at BYU, there is no time for a letdown and Portland has been the site for some letdowns for the Gaels in the past. That likely will not be the case this time. Saint Mary’s has the best rebounding margin in the conference and is now facing the team with the worst offense in the conference. Portland’s Oskars Reinfelds has doubled his point total in conference play and has been much more consistent. He and Kevin Bailey were able to score against the Gonzaga backcourt but the Saint Mary’s crew of Dellavedova, Stephen Holt, Jordan Guisti, etc. should keep them in check.

Predicted winner: Saint Mary’s

Newspaper Box Score
Saint Mary's vs Portland
01/19/13 7:30 PM at Portland, Ore. (Chiles Center)
At Portland, Ore. (Chiles Center)
SAINT MARY'S 60, PORTLAND 38

SAINT MARY'S (15-4, 4-1 WCC)
HOLT, Stephen 3-10 5-6 13; WALDOW, Brad 6-8 0-2 12; DELLAVEDOVA, Matthew
4-13 2-4 11; LEVESQUE, Beau 4-8 0-2 8; PAGE, Jorden 2-3 0-0 5; HODGSON, Matt
1-3 0-0 3; YOUNG, Mitchell 1-2 0-0 3; GIUSTI, Jordan 1-2 0-0 2; ROWLEY, Kyle
1-2 0-0 2; WALKER III, James 0-2 1-2 1; PETRULIS, Eividas 0-1 0-0 0; MCCOY,
Paul 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 8-16 60.

PORTLAND (8-12, 1-4 WCC)
REINFELDS, Oskars 2-4 2-2 7; VAN DER MARS, Thomas 1-3 5-8 7; BAILEY, Kevin
3-11 1-2 7; NICHOLAS, Ryan 1-8 2-2 5; RODGERS, Derrick 2-3 0-0 4; PRESSLEY,
Bryce 0-1 3-6 3; BARKER, Riley 1-7 0-0 2; RILEY, Tanner 0-3 2-2 2; EHLERS,
Jake 0-1 1-4 1; AHERN, David 0-1 0-0 0; THIELEKE, Korey 0-1 0-0 0; BAILEY,
John 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 10-43 16-26 38.

Saint Mary's.................. 29 31 - 60
Portland...................... 19 19 - 38

3-point goals--Saint Mary's 6-18 (HOLT, Stephen 2-5; HODGSON, Matt 1-2;
DELLAVEDOVA, Matthew 1-5; PAGE, Jorden 1-1; YOUNG, Mitchell 1-1; WALKER III,
James 0-1; PETRULIS, Eividas 0-1; LEVESQUE, Beau 0-2), Portland 2-10
(REINFELDS, Oskars 1-2; NICHOLAS, Ryan 1-2; BAILEY, Kevin 0-2; PRESSLEY,
Bryce 0-1; RILEY, Tanner 0-1; AHERN, David 0-1; THIELEKE, Korey 0-1). Fouled
out--Saint Mary's-YOUNG, Mitchell, Portland-None. Rebounds--Saint Mary's 36
(HOLT, Stephen 6), Portland 34 (NICHOLAS, Ryan 10). Assists--Saint Mary's 15
(DELLAVEDOVA, Matthew 6), Portland 6 (NICHOLAS, Ryan 1; AHERN, David 1;
PRESSLEY, Bryce 1; REINFELDS, Oskars 1; BAILEY, Kevin 1; RODGERS, Derrick
1). Total fouls--Saint Mary's 22, Portland 18. Technical fouls--Saint
Mary's-None, Portland-None. A-2625

DoubleDipper wrote:The all-you-can eat pasta and wine were excellent.

Great new tunes were played by the incomparable Portland Pride Pep Band.

The UP Women’s Basketball Team won today at LMU.

Saint Mary’s Deals Pilots Home Loss

PORTLAND, Ore. --- Defending West Coast Conference champions Saint Mary’s defeated the Portland Pilots 60-38 Saturday night before 2,625 fans at the Chiles Center. Stephen Holt led three Gaels players in double figures with 13 points, while reigning WCC Player of the Year Matthew Dellavedova added 11 points and six assists.

Kevin Bailey, Thomas van der Mars and Oskars Reinfelds led the Pilots (8-12, 1-4 WCC) with seven points each.

Brad Waldow added 12 points for the visiting Gaels (15-4, 4-1), who won on the road for the second time this week after defeating BYU on a Wednesday 35-foot buzzer-beater by Dellavedova.

The 38 points scored for Portland was the fewest since the Pilots dropped a 53-31 decision to San Diego in 1989.

Portland shot a season-low 23 percent from the field, finishing 10-for-43 overall, and committed 18 turnovers which led to 21 points for the Gaels.

Back-to-back Saint Mary’s three-pointers by Mitchell Young and Jorden Page gave the Gaels a 23-9 lead with 5:00 remaining in the first half. Reinfelds buried a three-pointer and five straight points by Ryan Nicholas pulled Portland within 25-17. Bailey ended the period with a steal and dunk to make it 29-19.

A van der Mars jumper cut the deficit to 33-24, but a Waldow dunk pushed the margin back to double figures and the Pilots would get no closer than 12 points down the stretch.

Portland will look to re-group as the homestand continues on Thursday when the San Francisco Dons visit the Chiles Center for a 7 p.m. tip-off. The game will be aired live on Comcast SportsNet Northwest. The BYU Cougars visit on Saturday, Jan. 26 with a 7:30 p.m. tip-off on ESPNU.

@CoachReveno: "The worst basketball teams are ones that do not know their roles." - Lou Holtz in a discussion last spring at Univ. of Portland graduation.

@CoachReveno: "The worst basketball teams are ones that do not know their roles." - Lou Holtz in a discussion last spring at Univ. of Portland graduation.

@CoachReveno: "Defense doesn't win games. Balance wins games." - Jeff Van Gundy. Wish other cliche about D was true. Really guarded tonight, brutal on O.

dholcombe wrote:Neither team seemed to play well. The last five minutes of the first half were OK. Otherwise...one of the worst basketball games I've watched.

dholcombe wrote:Neither team seemed to play well. The last five minutes of the first half were OK. Otherwise...one of the worst basketball games I've watched.