Marian University men’s basketball (6-0, 0-0 NACC) led for 26:31 but fell to NCAA Division I opponent San Diego 69-64 in an exhibition for the Sabres. 

• Marian opened scoring the first five points of the game but most of the opening stanza was a one-possession game.
• San Diego managed to take a 25-24 lead before Marian took the largest lead of the game to that point with eight unanswered points.
• The Sabres built their lead to as large as nine points on a couple of occasions and went into the half leading 38-31.
• The two squads went back-and-forth to open the second half with Marian maintaining a 48-40 lead with 16:13 to play.
• San Diego was the able to go on a 13-5 spurt that knotted the two squads at 53-53 with 7:54 to play.
• After a long stretch of trading baskets, Marian held a 59-58 advantage with 4:14 on the clock.
• The Toreros were able to take the lead for good scoring eight unanswered points to lead by seven with 40 ticks left.
• The Sabres were able to trim the deficit down to three but USD was able to hold on for the 69-64 final.

• Marian shot 22-of-50 (.440) for the game and 5-of-13 (.385) from beyond the arc.
• The Sabres were 14-of-26 (.539) and 4-of-8 (.500) on three-pointers in the opening half.
• San Diego shot 27-of-52 (.519) for the game but the Sabre defense limited USD to 2-of-15 shooting from beyond the arc.
• The Sabre defense forced 17 Torero turnovers and had 11 steals.
• The Toreros were able to outscore Marian 18-8 in second chance points and 38-28 for points in the paint.

	Sophomore Andrew Ayeni scored a team-high 13 points with three rebounds.
	Junior Brandon Adorno added 12 points to go with four rebounds and three steals.
	Junior Trey Jenkins had 11 points off the bench and had three steals.