Tommie Sports - Men's Basketball
Parking, videocast info for Sat. night Men's Hoops
January 16, 2010St. Thomas and St. John's meet Saturday at CU's Gangelhoff Center at 8 p.m. in MIAC men's basketball play.
You can access a live videocast here (click below and find Channel 2 to watch):
The CU facility is located at Hamline and Marshall Avenues. Fans coming from the west on I-94 should exit at Snelling Avenue, turn right and go south a few blocks then turn left at Marshall Street stoplight. Fans can park on adjacent streets, in the Gangelhoff lot (enter off Hamline Avenue behind the building) or park one block noth of arena at Sea Foam Stadium lot (look for air structure over football field).
The Tommies (11-2 overall, 7-1 MIAC), ranked fifth in Division III, lost 56-51 on Wednesday night at first-place Gustavus to drop into second place near the halfway mark of the 20-game conference race. Last season, UST beat the Johnnies 82-47 in St. Paul and 86-55 in Collegeville. SJU has lost six in a row to the Tommies and eight in a row as the road team.
This marks the first time in 56 seasons that the Johnnies won't play on the UST campus. Saturday marks the 68th time that St. John's Jim Smith and UST's Steve Fritz will meet as head coaches. Add in Fritz' days as a player and assistant coach, and this will be the 94th Tommie-Johnnie hoops game they'll play one another. It's Smith;s 99th overall game against UST and 1,200th game in 46 seasons. It's Fritz' 795th game in 30 seasons as head coach.
UST senior guard Joe Scott is nearing a Tommie milestone with 994 points in 72 games at UST. When you add in his freshman season totals at UW-Colorado Springs, Scott has 1,283 points in 97 games.
