Murauskas Leads Gaels to Pair of Victories, Picks Up Shamrock Office Student-Athlete of the Week Honors

MORAGA, Calif. — Through their first 14 games of the season, Saint Mary's Men's Basketball sits with a stellar 12-2 record. With his fingerprint all over that success is junior power forward Paulius Murauskas. The 6-8 Lithuanian National ranks second in the WCC in scoring, averaging 18.2 points per contest, and point on another scoring clinic this past week against Northern Iowa and LMU, earning him Shamrock Office Solutions Student-Athlete of the Week Honors.

Murauskas got to work early this week, when the Gaels defeated Northern Iowa on Monday evening, 63-58. Accounting for nearly 1/3rd of the Gaels scoring, Murauskas dropped 20 against the second best scoring defense in the country, while also reeling in seven boards. He followed that up with a 13 point, nine rebound performance against LMU, despite battling foul trouble all game. The final statline for Murauskas for the week saw him average 16.5 points per game and eight rebounds per contest, while knocking down 12-14 free throw attempts. He now leads the country with 93 made free throws, and ranks second in the nation with 113 attempts.

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