CORVALLIS, Ore. — San Diego men's basketball kicks off a two-game road trip in Oregon to round out the regular season with a tilt against the Oregon State Beavers on Wednesday night.
The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Steve Schlanger and P.J. Carlesimo calling the action. Jack Cronin (PxP, X: @JackCroninPXP) will have the call over radio airwaves on USDToreros.com/watch. Inside coverage can also be found on the @USDMBB social channels.
THE BEAVER RUNDOWN
• OSU is 15-14 on the season and 8-8 in its second season as a part of the West Coast Conference, good for fourth place
• Wednesday will be just the sixth all-time meeting between the two sides, the second in Corvallis since 2001 after a defeat as first-time WCC opponents last season ... San Diego will look for its first win in Corvallis with lone victory in the all-time series being in the first ever meeting, on Dec. 2, 2000
• Steve Lavin is 12-4 all-time against the Beavs, 6-2 in Gill Coliseum
This Season's First Meeting:
- In a complete inverse of a comeback overtime win at Pepperdine the game prior, USD men's basketball was on the other end as it fell to Oregon State, 78-76 after OT in the JCP on Jan. 31
- The Toreros led by 10 with 1:28 remaining in regulation before the visiting Beavers stormed back to tie the game up and send it to overtime. In the extra period, OSU rode its momentum to edge the Toreros by two points.
- San Diego finished on the plus-end in the rebound margin and held its opponent to just 40.3% field goal shooting, but the season-high 20 turnovers proved costly.
- Grad guard Adrian McIntyre led the way with 21 points, 11 in OT. Junior forward Assane Diop also finished in double figures and had eight rebounds, as did grad forward Tim Moore Jr. who also became the 15th Torero ever with five blocks in a game.
LAST TIME OUT
- USD men's basketball fell by a final score of 65-77 to LMU in the Toreros' home finale, senior day, on Saturday in the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
- San Diego fought back from an early deficit to tie the game up halfway through the second period, but LMU held out for the victory on a strong shooting night. The visiting Lions shot 57.8% from the field and 47.1% from three while the Toreros went 43.6% from the floor overall.
- Leading the USD effort were grad guards Toneari Lane and Adrian McIntyre with 19 and 18 points respectively on their senior nights. Lane caught fire from beyond the arc to get the Toreros back in the game, going 5-8 from deep. Also scoring in double figures on their senior days were guards Juanse Gorosito (12) and Dominique Ford (10).
- The Toreros celebrated the careers of seven of the program's seniors prior to the game: Toneari Lane, Adrian McIntyre, Juanse Gorosito, Tim Moore Jr., Neel Beniwal and Emmanuel Callas.
- LMU made nine straight field goals after missing its first, while the Toreros were four for their first 14, seeing the Lions jump out to a lead of as much as 15
- San Diego shooting would come alive as a 14-3 run trimmed the deficit
- Gorosito scored 10 straight USD points late in the first half but LMU kept pushing, leading 38-32 at the break
- It was a back-and-forth first half of the second before Lane drilled back-to-back threes as a part of a 12-1 Torero run to finally tie the game back up, 51-51 with 10 minutes remaining
- The LMU shooting barrage didn't let up, however, as the guests quickly went back out front and pushed the lead back to double digits at the free throw line, finishing as 12-point winners
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