St. Mary’s Moves Back into Top 20
Minneapolis, Minn. - The St. Mary's College of Maryland men's basketball team quickly rebounded from its third loss of the season with a pair of conference wins to help the Seahawks move back into the top 20, ranking No. 20 in the Week 9 edition of the D3hoops.com Top 25 poll as announced Monday night.
For the third consecutive week, junior guard Alex Franz (Catonsville, Md./Cardinal Gibbons) remains third in the nation in steals per game with a conference-leading 3.6 steals average. BJ McGill of St. Vincent College averages 3.9 steals per game to lead the nation. Franz ranks 24th in the country as well with a CAC-best 5.6 assists per game.
As a team, St. Mary's ranks 22nd in Division III in steals per game with a conference-best 10.7 average. The Seahawks also own the 30th-best scoring margin in the country, beating their opponents by a league-leading +10.8 points.
Senior guard Camontae Griffin (Baltimore, Md./Dunbar) moved up one space to 14th in the country with a league-best 21.7 points per game. Griffin is second in the conference as well in both free throw percentage (.848) and steals (2.4 spg).
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W-L/Points/Last Week |
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W-L/Points/Last Week |
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1. Guilford (24) |
18-1/624/2 |
14. Anderson |
17-2/281/10 | |
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2. Williams |
19-1/571/4 |
15. Franklin & Marshall |
16-3/254/17 | |
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3. Washington (Mo.) (1) |
16-2/567/3 |
16. Eastern Mennonite |
15-3/250/11 | |
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4. UW-Stevens Point |
18-2/544/5 |
17. Texas-Dallas |
15-3/219/19 | |
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5. St. Thomas |
17-2/525/6 |
18. Randolph-Macon |
15-4/215/9 | |
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6. UW-Whitewater |
16-3/487/5 |
19. Brandeis |
14-3/196/20 | |
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7. Va. Wesleyan |
17-2/468/7 |
20. St. Mary's (Md.) |
16-3/177/23 | |
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8. Middlebury |
17-2/391/8 |
21. Wooster |
15-4/131/24 | |
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9. St. Norbert |
16-1/388/12 |
22. Medaille |
19-1/130/25 | |
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10. Whitworth |
17-2/357/15 |
23. Carthage |
15-4/92/NR | |
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11. Chapman |
18-2/350/13 |
24. Mississippi College |
15-3/60/22 | |
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12. MIT |
18-2/348/14 |
25. Colby |
15-2/44/NR | |
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13. William Paterson |
20-1/345/16 |
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