Saint Mary's comfortably beat Dandenong's SEABL team last night 82-68.

Wortho is recovering from two bouts of surgery isnt he?

anyone know if this game is being broadcast anywhere? or a live stream?

Not being streamed live I'm afraid, but you can catch live stats here: http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/28377/07/87/05/44ePGzdzJge46/

Gaels lead Melbourne 49-38 at half time. Waldow has 13&3, Jackson 12&3 and Holt 11pts and Walker with 10pts.

Chris Goulding who played Summerleague with the Cav's leads with 14pts, whilst former Gael Lucas Walker has 9ts and 5 rebounds.

Lucas Walker let go with a thunderous facial over an unfortunate current Gael...something that is the talk of the game and set to feature on YouTube soon...

Tigers stormed back from at one stage trailing by 24 points to get over the line 70-67.

Chris Goulding was the man, leading all scorers with 30pts, Lucas Walker (Saint Mary's) had 18pts & 11reb & Nate Tomlinson (Colorado) had 4pts, 10ass & 7reb.

For Saint Mary's, Holt top scored with 20pts & 3reb, Walker had 16pts, Waldow 12pts & 4reb and Jackson with 10pts & 7reb

Sounded like that Walker jam was something else. Good effort by St Mary's to get so close to a team with seven rostered players, although Auryn MacMillan will want to forget his 4f, 5to Tigers debut!

Geez, it was an 18-4 final quarter from the Tigers!

St Mary's scored 41 points in the first 17 minutes and then Melbourne outscored them 49-26 over the last 23 minutes. Talk about a game of two halves!

Matt Hodgson with 7r in 12mins for St Mary's.

Boxscore says 1,600 at the game.

I haven't look at the boxed scores but im guessing Goulding put up at least 25+ shots?

Very curious to see what Wortho has left in the tank. Never been a massive fan, always felt he got off to a flyer in Sydney and has got through off his hype from there. Hopefully for the Tigers sake he gives them something, NBL cant afford for the Melbourne Tigers to be bad again.

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Wow that is really impressive for Goulding, I was expecting 10-30+ from him. Impressive percentage.

I'm surprised the Gaels got that close let alone led by 24! The Tigers are going to be impressive this season when they get Wortho and imports in there.
Lucas Walker SMC alum is pretty exciting. Hopefully I get to see his dunk somewhere!

This year's tours have been giving interesting results. It seems if you take 3-4 starters out from an NBL team you get a very close and entertaining game. August is probably perfect timing for that too.

They are great pre-season workouts for the NBL teams, whereas playing against each other at this time of year they go through the motions, the college kids go out their and play hard to win and the NBL guys have no option but to match it.

Granted it's only an exhibition game against a college team, but Goulding's form further questions his non-selection for the Boomers. His omission has been further highlighted as a result of Newley's withdrawal, there weren't many who could attack the NZ basket on Wednesday night.

Hopefully Chris can put his head down and work on the supposed defensive deficiencies Lemanis mentioned, as we all know he can score. He'd be a chance to lead the league in scoring this year potentially? 17ppg was enough to get the crown last season. With Dennis sharing the ball around a bit more, and Wortho commanding attention from the defence, Chris could find himself with a couple of extra looks.

Heres a idea, what if they looked outside the box a bit.

How about they look away from what position they finish and start look to reward clubs on other tangable and intangible items.

*Community work
*Stability
*Facility improvements
*Responsible management of contracts
*Life after basketball transition courses

Reward teams who don't make the finals who are looking to improve the league.

oops wrong thread

Saint Mary's head next to Cairns for a game against the Taipans...

Butler and New Mexico have already been and gone mate.

Yep, no other colleges following the Gaels this year.

that cairns vs st marys game is at tss on the gold coast