Saint Mary's fans proud of team's effort despite being eliminated from March Madness
It was the school's fourth consecutive year making the big dance, the first time the program has ever done that.
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It was the school's fourth consecutive year making the big dance, the first time the program has ever done that.
The Saint Mary's Gaels came from behind and hung on for a win against the Vanderbilt Commodores, moving on with a 59-56 win in the first round of the NCAA East Region.
Braden Huff scored 18 points and Gonzaga avenged two regular-season losses to Saint Mary's to beat the 19th-ranked Gaels 58-51 in the West Coast Conference Tournament championship.
Augustas Marciulionis and Paulius Murauskas each scored 15 points and No. 19 and top-seeded Saint Mary's defeated No. 9 seed Pepperdine 74-59 in the West Coast Conference Tournament semifinals Monday night.
The Gales (27-4) are ranked 21st in the country after winning back-to-back outright regular-season titles in the West Coast Conference and head into the conference tournament with a chance to repeat as champions.
On both sides of the Bay Area, there are Harrisons playing good baseball and contributing to their times.
A pro-Palestinian protest and hunger strike in the chapel at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga has ended following an agreement, officials at the school announced Friday.
With cheers, chanting and pompoms waiving, St. Mary's Men's basketball fans did what they could to send off the team in style to March Madness.
The Saint Mary's Gaels basketball team made history this season when they won the West Coast Conference regular season and tournament titles, earning an automatic bid for the NCAA Men's tournament.
Aidan Mahaney scored 23 points, Mitchell Saxen had 19 points and 15 rebounds and No. 21 Saint Mary's led nearly the entire way beat No. 17 Gonzaga 69-60 on Tuesday night and interrupt the Bulldogs' stranglehold on the West Coast Conference Tournament title.
Augustas Marciulionis had 17 points and 11 assists, Luke Barrett added 14 points and No. 17 Saint Mary's beat Pepperdine 83-57 on Thursday night to win the West Coast Conference regular-season championship.
Saint Mary's has engineered an impressive turnaround after stumbling to five losses in the first eight games of a season that began with high expectations.
UConn pulled away from Saint Mary's for a 70-55 win on Sunday that put the Huskies in the Sweet 16 for the first time in nine years.
Gonzaga's players heard the criticisms this wasn't the same Bulldogs team that has been among the nation's elite in recent years, and they even struggled themselves to live up to the program's enormous expectations.
No. 12 Gonzaga (23-5, 12-2) is a game back of No. 15 Saint Mary's (24-5, 13-1) in what is shaping up to be one of the most hotly contested races in the West Coast Conference in years.
