National Basketball Association
St. Mary's 69, San Diego 66
When: 11:30 PM ET, Saturday, March 9, 2013
Where: Orleans Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
Officials:
# Kevin Brill, # Frank Harvey, # Glenn Mayberry
Attendance:
7896
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No. 23 Saint Mary’s 69, San Diego 66 (OT): Brad Waldow scored a career-high 23 points and matched his career best with 16 rebounds as the second-seeded Gaels held on to win the West Coast Conference semifinal in Las Vegas.
Beau Levesque added 19 points and Mitchell Young scored 12 for Saint Mary’s (27-5), which will meet top-seeded Gonzaga in Monday’s championship game for the fifth straight season.
Johnny Dee scored 18 points to lead San Diego, shooting 5-for-10 from 3-point range. Christopher Anderson had 11 points and nine assists and Chris Manresa added nine points and 13 rebounds for the sixth-seeded Toreros (16-18).
The Gaels scored six straight points in overtime on a Waldow tip in and back-to-back baskets by Young to go up 68-64. Manresa scored on a dunk with 2:12 left to cut the deficit to two, but those would be the last points for San Diego.
San Diego led by 10 with 11:24 remaining in regulation but the Gaels chipped away behind Matthew Dellavedova, Levesque and Waldow. Dellavedova, the school’s all-time leading scorer, was 1-for-10 from the floor before he drained a 3-pointer with nine seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Dellavedova, who came in averaging 16.5 points and 6.2 assists, finished with seven points and 12 assists. … Waldow lost a tooth as a result of an inadvertent elbow during the second half. He tried to keep playing but had to be taken out to stop the bleeding. … Dee made three 3-pointers in the first 7:35, the last resulting in a four-point play that gave San Diego an 18-6 lead. The Toreros extended the advantage to 14 before taking a 29-26 lead into the half.
Top Game Performances
| St. Mary's |
|
San Diego |
|
Brad Waldow 23 |
Scoring |
Johnny Dee 18 |
|
Matthew Dellavedova 12 |
Assists |
Christopher Anderson 9 |
|
Brad Waldow 16 |
Rebounds |
Chris Manresa 13 |
|
Beau Levesque 5 |
Free Throws Made |
Johnny Dee 3 |
|
Jordan Giusti 2 |
Steals |
Jito Kok 2 |
|
Brad Waldow 4 |
Blocks |
Jito Kok 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| St. Mary's
|
69 |
37.3 |
4-17 |
15-20 |
15 |
42 |
5 |
6 |
10 |
| San Diego
|
66 |
44.6 |
7-18 |
9-13 |
12 |
28 |
2 |
5 |
13 |