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Author: Sam Goaley

St. Thomas 2025-26 Opening Week

Posted on November 3, 2025 By Sam Goaley

The St. Thomas Men’s basketball team begins their season in Moraga, California, playing one of the West Coast Conference’s premier teams, The Gaels of St Mary’s College. St. Mary’s the last three seasons has won the West Coast Conference regular season title, and has made the NCAA Tournament the last four years in a row….

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St. Thomas 90 Green Bay 76

Posted on November 8, 2024 By Sam Goaley

In St. Thomas’s first road trip of the season it took them to a familiar opponent, the Green Bay Phoenix. St. Thomas’s fresh faces, once again, led them to a road victory 90-76 The game started off with a bang as UW-GB’s Anthony Roy led scoring with a slam dunk, and then he almost immediately…

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University of St. Thomas Opening Week Preview

Posted on November 4, 2024 By Sam Goaley

The St. Thomas Tommie’s Men’s Basketball team opens up the season with a week that is best described as crawl (North Central), walk (at Green Bay), run (at Oklahoma State). OPENING NIGHT Tonight their opponent is a perennial opponent, the North Central University Rams. UST has scored over 100 points or more in the last…

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St. Thomas Men’s Basketball Awards Show Recap 2023-24

Posted on March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on St. Thomas Men’s Basketball Awards Show Recap 2023-24

Well, here it is back for the third year, the St. Thomas Men’s Basketball Awards Show Recap. I will provide the voting below and provide some end of the year commentary on the season. Best Dunk Results Winner-Raheem vs Omaha 62.1% of the vote This was a dominating dunk, not surprised this was the winner…

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St. Thomas-49 South Dakota State-59

Posted on March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on St. Thomas-49 South Dakota State-59

The University of St. Thomas Tommies were sent home a day before the Championship game by the program that has won this tournament 6 times in the last 12 seasons, the Jackrabbits of South Dakota State. UST-49 SDSU-59. SDSU completes a 3-0 season sweep vs St. Thomas. Coach Hendo described his strategy for UST, “Our…

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SDSU vs St. Thomas-3/11/2024 Preview

Posted on March 11, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on SDSU vs St. Thomas-3/11/2024 Preview

St. Thomas sent NDSU yesterday with a very slow, efficent, and dominant offensive performance. UST and NDSU each had multiple 10+ scoring runs. Their effort was rewarded with the opportunity to face the #1 Seed, the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, and the Summit League Player of the Year, Zeke Mayo. How the other games went:…

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St. Thomas-68 North Dakota State-58

Posted on March 11, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on St. Thomas-68 North Dakota State-58

The last time the University of St. Thomas was in the Denny Sanford Center, they were playing Oral Roberts. Brooks Allen hit the first three pointer in that game, and he did again tonight against the Bison of NDSU. That shot was a harbinger of the aerial barrage that was about to come in the…

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St. Thomas vs NDSU 3/10 Preview

Posted on March 10, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on St. Thomas vs NDSU 3/10 Preview

The St. Thomas Men’s Basketball team tonight is playing the North Dakota State Bison tonight. The Bison have become a Championship game regular in Sioux Falls, making it each season for the better part of a decade. It has been since 2017 that NDSU has lost a game in the first round of the tournament….

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Summit League Tournament “Winning Indicators”

Posted on March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on Summit League Tournament “Winning Indicators”

With the Summit League tournament starting on Friday, it has now come time to figure out what types of teams have won this tournament in the past. Have the most efficient offense Over the last 15 or so seasons, if your offensive efficiency, as measured in tempo adjusted points per 100 possessions, led the league,…

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Tommies look to finish strong on Senior Night

Posted on March 1, 2024 By Sam Goaley No Comments on Tommies look to finish strong on Senior Night

Tomorrow will be the final home game for a good chunk of the University of St. Thomas Men’s Basketball team, and each of the players celebrated will have quite a legacy to look up to. St. Thomas takes on Denver and the highest scoring player in the country, Tommy Bruner. The University of St. Thomas…

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