St. Mary's Gets Another Big Win

You have to love this time of the year in college basketball, when some of the mid majors pull major upsets of ranked teams, only to fade into oblivion.

You don't have to worry about that with St. Mary's.

The Gaels made headlines with a stunning "upset" over No. 11 Oregon. But St. Mary's 85-70 beat down of Seton Hall might be even more impressive.

When a team like St. Mary's upsets a West-Coast power like Oregon, the East Coast voters tend to dismiss it as the Pac-10 being soft as opposed to the Gaels actually being a good team. That is, assuming that those on the East Coast notice at all seeing as the box score is buried in the following day's agate. But when you can come out and smack one of their own -- especially from that pompous Big East conference -- that is a win that will make people take notice.

Seton Hall came into the game ranked ninth in unofficial RPI and were undefeated at 6-0. The Gaels not only defeated the Pirates, they absolutely buried these guys. St. Mary's is going to be hard to ignore when the new Top 25 poll comes out. Seton Hall had been one of those teams who had been earning votes. Not now. At least not ahead of St. Mary's who left no doubt who was the better team. This team had better be ranked on Monday.

Patrick Mills (pictured here in his Team Australia uniform) continues to impress with 19 points, six rebounds and four assists. This guy isn't your average freshman. Omar Samhan also had 19 points Diamon Simpson had 15. St. Mary's also played some good defense, holding Larry Davis to only six points as he was saddled with foul trouble.

St. Mary's is 6-0, and off to its best start since 1988-89, when the team started 9-0.