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THE RUNDOWN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – For the first time since Jan. 15, 2009, St. Edward's defeated St. Mary's on the road with an 85-77 win Wednesday night at Bill Greehey Arena. In the process, SEU head coach Andre Cook won his 250^th career game.
 
SEU (14-6, 4-4) picked up the season sweep of the Rattlers – after winning in Austin Dec. 6 – and moved back to .500 in Heartland Conference play.
 
The Hilltoppers led for a good portion of the second half, and with the scored tied for the 15^th time in the contest at 74 apiece, DORIAN LOPEZ hit a 3-pointer in front of his hometown crowd with 1:59 remaining to give SEU a 3-point lead. From there, the Hilltoppers wouldn't trail again and SEU hit 8-of-10 free throws down the stretch in the win.
 
LANDON GOESLING scored 20 points and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds while LUCAS DORIA recorded his first double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
 
Cook has 131 career victories at SEU to accompany 119 he brought to Austin from five seasons at Hudson Valley Community College. The win was Cook's first over St. Mary's in San Antonio, and he improved his overall record vs. the Rattlers to 5-15.
 
HIGHLIGHTS
• Head Coach Andre Cook won his 250^th career game with Wednesday's win at St. Mary's.
• SEU won in San Antonio vs. St. Mary's for the first time since Jan. 15, 2009, snapping a 10-game losing skid on the road to the Rattlers.
• LANDON GOESLING scored 20 points to give him 28 career games (19 this season) with double-digit points.
• Goesling grabbed a career-high eight rebounds.
• Goesling surpassed RAMIR BURTON (155, 2014-15) for the fourth-highest single-season total for free throws made (159) with 10 Wednesday night. He is two shy of tying Chad Townsend (161, 1994-95) for third place and 23 away from the overall record (181, Burton, 2016-17).
• LUCAS DORIA had his first career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds; it was his second time this season to have double-digit points.
• SEAN WATKINS scored 14 points giving him 27 career games (11 this season) with double-figure scoring.
• DORIAN LOPEZ scored 14 points and had seven rebounds giving him 17 games this season (31 in his career) with 10 or more points.
• JAMES TAYLOR scored 10 points off the bench, and it gave the junior an even 40 games in his career (15 this season) with double-digit points.
 
STAT OF THE GAME I
56.5 – SEU shot 56.5 percent from the floor (13-23) in the second half to ensure victory over St. Mary's.

THEY SAID IT
SEU Head Coach Andre Cook on the snapping the road skid to St. Mary's …
"A little bit of history. We seem like we've lost every which way here. Buzzer shots, overtime, tough losses, blown out. Every way you can lose a game we've done that here, I think this was our tenth time here. I was proud of the kids' resolve. It was a tough game, here we are, on the road, St. Mary's, one-point game, 3.5 minutes to go, who's going to make the plays? And, in this league that's what it's going to come down to almost every night, in particular on the road. Some games we haven't done that, this game we did, and it just feels great to finally get that mini monkey off my back to get a win here.
 
Cook on St. Mary's making SEU play a slower pace of offense …
"There was a little bit where I was okay with that. Because last game at Lubbock Christian, we looked like a school-yard team. We were just chunking shots up, bad shots. We needed to run our stuff and be organized on the offensive end. I thought we were better at that today. We didn't take as many bad shots like we did against Lubbock. I thought we got better at that, so it was good to see us run our offense.
 
Cook on winning 250 career games …
"It's hard to believe that I've been a head coach half my life. It's my 22^nd year of being a head coach and 13 at the college level, when you do what you love it goes by really fast. I've loved every minute of my job, and my career – it's not a job – my career it's not a job, my career, my profession, and when you have good kids the wins come. Good assistant coaches, good people around you, and it's nine years at St. Edward's and it's been fantastic."
 
WHAT'S NEXT
St. Edward's resumes conference play in Laredo Saturday at Texas A&M-International at 3 p.m.