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ST. LOUIS - Rob Loe scored a career-high 19 points, including a 5-of-8 performance from 3-point range, but Georgia's Jeremy Price made a layup with one second remaining to pull out a 61-59 victory over Saint Louis Saturday night at Chaifetz Arena.
Georgia (3-0) trailed by 14 points early in the second half but gradually chipped away. Travis Leslie, who tied Loe for game-high scoring honors, tallied 13 of his 19 points in the second half to power the Bulldogs.
Kyle Cassity scored 13 points, Cory Remekun had a game- and career-high nine rebounds and Jordair Jett dished out four assists for the Billikens (1-2). Saint Louis shot 54.2 percent from the floor in the first half but slipped to 35 percent in the second stanza to finish at 45.5 percent.
Price had 16 points and seven rebounds for the Bulldogs, who shot 52.3 percent on the night and earned a 30-23 edge on the glass. Dustin Ware and Gerald Robinson scored 10 points apiece, and Robinson added a game-high eight assists. Leslie collected six rebounds.
Cassity scored 10 points in the first half and Christian Salecich's driving layup and two Loe free throws resulting from a Georgia technical foul. The Bulldogs responded with Robinson's 3-pointer and traditional three-point play to trim the margin to eight, 44-36.
Georgia continued the flurry with three free throws, Chris Barnes' dunk and Leslie's tough drive for a layup, and the SLU lead was down to a point, 44-43. Loe ended a lengthy Billiken drought with a 3-pointer, and Saint Louis led 47-43.
Leslie tallied field goals on UGA's next two possessions, but Loe answered each time. He turned an offensive rebound into a layup, then collected another 3-pointer for a 52-47 Billiken advantage. After Price made a layup, Cassity - who was 3-of-4 from beyond the arc - drained yet another triple to build the SLU lead to 55-49.
Price netted two free throws and Leslie scored on a fast-break dunk to pull Georgia to within a bucket, 55-53. Remekun made the front end of a 1-and-1, and Leslie put Georgia to within a point, 56-55, by hitting two free throws.
On SLU's next possession, Remekun grabbed an offensive rebound, was fouled and made one of two from the stripe for a 57-55 Saint Louis advantage. Price sank both ends of a 1-and-1 to tie it at 57, and Leslie followed a Billiken turnover with a jumper that gave UGA its first lead, 59-57. Jett hit a pull-up jumper in the lane with 22 seconds left to forge a 59-all deadlock, but Robinson drove toward the middle of the court and found Price open underneath for the game-winning basket.
The Billikens jumped to an 8-2 lead as Loe sandwiched two 3-pointers around Remekun's dunk. After the Bulldogs narrowed the gap to 8-6 with baskets on consecutive possessions, Saint Louis caught fire and assembled a 12-2 run to establish a 20-8 cushion. Remekun's offensive rebound and layup ignited the spurt, and Cassity followed with a 3-pointer and a jumper. Cody Ellis nailed a baseline jumper, Jett sank a free throw and Brian Conklin finished the run with a layup.
Georgia tallied the next three points, only to see SLU take its largest lead, 25-11, on Evans' conventional three-point play and Mike McCall's driving layup that just beat the shot clock. The Bulldogs used Ware's trey and Marcus Thornton's layup to reduce the Billiken advantage to 25-16, but Cassity's baseline jumper and Ellis' 3-pointer pushed the margin into double digits again, 30-18. Two Evans free throws allowed SLU to match its biggest lead at 32-18.
Two consecutive layups by Price and Ware's jumper narrowed the gap to 32-24. The teams traded three-point possessions - Cassity hit from beyond the arc and Leslie answered with a traditional three-point play - and the Bills led 35-27. On SLU's final first-half touch, Evans was fouled as the shot clock was about to expire and capitalized by making two free throws that gave the Billikens a 37-27 halftime edge.
Saint Louis is back in action Tuesday, Nov. 23, against Tennessee State. Tip time at Chaifetz Arena is 7 p.m.
