• Final Statistics

BURNABY, B.C. – Andy Poling led five double-figure scorers with 27 points for 24th-ranked Seattle Pacific, which rolled to a 104-75 men's basketball victory Saturday at Simon Fraser in the final regular-season game for both teams at West Gymnasium.

Poling (Portland, Ore.) made 10 of 13 shots from the field for the Falcons, who shot a season-best 62 percent (38 of 61) as a team. The 6-foot-11 center converted 7 of 10 free throws and grabbed seven rebounds for SPU, which dominated the boards 45-22.

Seattle Pacific (21-6) finished with a 13-5 record to place third in the final Great Northwest Athletic Conference standings.

The Falcons registered their highest scoring output since Mar. 4, 2010 in a 113-105 overtime loss at Alaska Fairbanks. They had not scored as many as 104 points in 40 minutes of regulation time since defeating Bloomfield 107-77 on Nov. 23, 2007 in Bellingham, Wash.

SPU advances into the GNAC Tournament as the No. 3 seed and has a Wednesday, Feb. 29 quarterfinal meeting with No. 6 Central Washington (14-12). Tip-off is 5:15 p.m. at Marcus Pavilion in Lacey, Wash.

The winner of that contest meets No. 2 seed Alaska Anchorage in the semifinals on Friday at noon. Both men's and women's GNAC Tournaments will be conducted at Saint Martin's.

Wednesday's other men's quarterfinal pairing features No. 4 Western Oregon against No. 5 Montana State Billings at 7:30 p.m.

The GNAC Tournament winner receives the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Tournament. Six teams compete in the conference tournament with first-place Western Washington and second-place Alaska Anchorage receiving first-round byes.

Saturday's GNAC championship game will be televised live throughout the region at 5:15 p.m. on RootSports.

Simon Fraser (8-18) concluded its season with a 3-15 league ledger. SPU swept the season series, including a 68-57 decision on Dec. 1 in Seattle.

SPU junior Jobi Wall (Arvada, Colo.) finished with 16 points along with game-high totals of eight rebounds and seven assists. Cory Hutsen scored 12 points for the Falcons, who also got 11 from Jake Anderson and 10 from Scott Morse.

Connor Lewis paced SFU with 20 points while Justin Brown scored 16, Zack Frehlick 15 and Jordan Sergent 13.

Poling tallied his team's first seven points and nine of the first 11 to help SPU open an 11-5 lead 4:30 into the game. That margin stretched to 13 points before Lewis held the Falcons at bay with eight straight points that drew the Clan within 26-21 with 9:58 left in the first half.

SPU closed the period with a 14-5 run to claim a 50-32 halftime advantage.

The lead grew to as many as 28 points in the second half. Poling converted the last of three consecutive layups that forged an 84-56 score with 7:24 left to play.

Wednesday's clash with Central is the third this season for the Falcons, who swept the regular-season series for the first time since 2004. They won 76-49 at CWU on Jan. 12 and were 72-64 victors on Feb. 11 in Seattle.

Including a 76-63 NCAA Tournament first-round victory last season in Ellensburg, the SPU men have won three straight in the series for the first time since 2002-03. SPU has not won four consecutive games against Central Washington since a successful six-game stretch between 1960 and 1963.


NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL
Saturday, February 25, 2012
West Gymnasium/Burnaby, B.C.

(#24) Seattle Pacific 104, at Simon Fraser 75

SEATTLE PACIFIC  (21-6, 13-5 GNAC)
Wall 6-10 2-2 16, Hutsen 5-9 2-4 12, Poling 10-13 7-10 27, Downs 3-8 0-0 9, Stockton 2-3 2-4 8, Anderson 4-4 2-2 11, Morse 5-6 0-0 10, Moll 1-2 4-4 6, Dorman 1-4 0-0 3, Carel 1-2 0-0 2, Todd 0-0 0-0 0, Washburn 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-61 19-26 104.

SIMON FRASER (8-18, 3-15 GNAC)
Frehlick 5-12 1-2 15, Sergent 5-10 3-3 13, Bantock 1-4 0-0 2, Brown 5-13 4-6 16, Lewis 9-22 0-1 20, Georgiev 4-4 0-1 9, Evans 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 29-66 8-14 75.

Seattle Pacific.........   50   54  -  104
Simon Fraser............   32   43  -   75

3-point goals--SPU 9-20 (Downs 3-7, Stockton 2-3, Wall 2-5, Dorman 1-3, Anderson 1-1, Carel 0-1), SF 9-35 (Frehlick 4-9, Brown 2-7, Lewis 2-12, Georgiev 1-1, Evans 0-1, Bantock 0-3, Sergent 0-2). Fouled out--SPU-None, SF-None. Rebounds--SPU 45 (Wall 8), SF 22 (Frehlick 5). Assists--SPU 26 (Wall 7), SF 11 (Brown 5). Total fouls--SPU 16, SF 19. Technical fouls--SPU-None, SF-None. A-450.


Next Game
GNAC Tournament quarterfinals
Seattle Pacific (#3 seed) vs. Central Washington (#6 seed)
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 5:15 p.m. PST
Marcus Pavilion/Lacey, Wash.