By Dean Boerner | Editor-in-Chief
In an incredibly evenly-matched game up until the two-minute mark of the overtime period, Utah prevailed over Saint Mary’s in the quarterfinals of the NIT, using a dominant final five minutes to down the Gaels in front of a packed house at McKeon Pavilion. Thus ends the season of Saint Mary’s, who finished 30-6 in the winningest season in program history, and thus ends the Saint Mary’s careers of the trio of Jock Landale, Emmett Naar, and Calvin Hermanson, the winningest trio in the history of Saint Mary’s basketball.