RealClearSports: Little St. Mary's Finds a Sweet Spot

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Art Spander in NCAA, St. Mary's, articles, basketball

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

MORAGA, Calif. -- To get to Saint Mary's College, you need a GPS and a lot of luck. It's due east of Oakland down a winding road through a canyon of redwood trees that are maybe a bit taller than Omar Samhan.

He's the 6-foot-11 center on a basketball team from a program with a great deal of history but beyond California receives almost no recognition. As for Moraga, it's a bedroom community named after Joaquin Moraga, the rancher deeded the area in 1835 by the government of Mexico.

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