COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND

UC Irvine 67, St. Mary’s 59--Jerry Green scored 25 points, including eight in the final 52 seconds, and the Anteaters (3-2) won to move above .500 for the first time since the end of the 1994-95 season.

Green also had seven points and an assist in a 9-0 run that gave Irvine a 51-49 lead with seven minutes left at the Bren Center.

St. Mary’s (2-3) had only one field goal in the last seven minutes. Irvine outscored St. Mary’s, 25-10, in the last 10 minutes.

“A year ago, that might have been typical Irvine, losing the game in the last four or five minutes,” said Zamiro Bennem, a sophomore guard. “This year, we’ve learned to fight through that. We already have half as many wins as we did all last season.”

St. Mary’s 7-foot-3, 345-pound center Brad Millard, with at least five NBA scouts watching, had 22 points and eight rebounds.

“You see the guy on TV and you hear about him,” said Irvine forward Marek Ondera, who had 18 points and six rebounds. “Then you stand next to him on the foul line, and you feel like a miniature.”

Millard, though, was scoreless in the last six minutes, missing two shots and a free throw. Millard, averaging five blocks, had none against Irvine.

Ondera, meanwhile, made six of 11 shots, three of which were dunks. He also blocked two shots.