GOLDEN, Colo. – In their final regular season home contest of 2025, the #7/10 Colorado School of Mines men's basketball team put on a show for the nearly 1,000 people in attendance for the annual Rock the Lock game and sent this year's senior class out in style Thursday night against Regis. The Orediggers (23-3, 17-1) atoned for a three-point January loss to the Rangers (15-10, 13-4) with a wire-to-wire 83-52 victory that secured the program's 11th all-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season championship and first in the last six seasons.
 
Reagan Koch and Majok Deng opened the night with consecutive three-pointers as part of a 10-0 run to start the night by the Orediggers. Trey Bryant finally got Regis on the board at 15:18 with a layup as slowly RU closed back to within half a dozen at 12-6 on a jumper by Jalen Brown, but the lead quickly moved back to double figures thanks to Alex Romack, Riley Schroeder and Adam Krasovec as with 11:55 left in the half the score stood at 17-7.
 
Again the Rangers managed to close the gap down to six inside eight minutes following a three-pointer by Brown, but a dunk from Romack and a trey from Schroeder made it abundantly clear Mines had no interest in allowing the action to remain close. A 10-2 run to end the half including the final eight points of the period included a pair of three-pointers from Juani Dassie and Koch that made it 41-23 heading into the locker room.
 
Regis did their best to try and claw back into contention as they trimmed the lead to 43-29 in the first two minutes of the second half, but another big run by Mines, this one of the 12-0 variety, blew things wide open. Krasovec kicked things off with a mid-range jumper before Deng flushed a trey and threw down a dunk off a steal by the big Hungarian. Dassie joined the party as well with a three off a Markus Pastorcic-Straun steal that made it a 26-point lead at 55-29 with 15:35 to play.
 
Mines kept pouring it on as after a Bryant layup broke things up for Regis, Cade Mankle beat the shot clock with a deep step-back trey before Caleb Clark took it to the rack off another steal by Pastorcic-Straun. A free throw by Schroeder made it a 30-point game for the first time at the 11:49 mark at 61-31 as the home faithful were treated to an absolute show down the stretch on both sides of the ball.
 
Though the lead briefly dipped below 30 in the final five minutes, the Orediggers made up for it as Deng and Koch continued to stroke it from long range before Mankle added an exclamation point with another pull-up from downtown that saw the gap peak at 37 with 2:01 left at 81-44. A series of late buckets by Brown did little than to pad stats down the stretch as Derek Lamb closed out the scoring with a layup in the final 30 seconds to close the book on an 83-52 championship-winning effort.
 
NOTABLES
-Deng led Mines with 13 points on 5-10 shooting including 3-6 from three
-Koch made his second start of the season and delivered 11 points on 4-8 from the floor with a trio of three-pointers while hauling down four rebounds and dishing out three assists
-Pastorcic-Straun followed up his night Tuesday with 11 points off the bench on a perfect 5-5 shooting with three assists and three steals
-Mankle came off the bench and added 10 highlighted by two three-pointers with four rebounds and four dimes
-Krasovec made his first start of the season and netted eight on 4-5 shooting with a career-high six assists
-Schroeder and Dassie also each finished with eight with three field goals each while Schroeder added six rebounds and three dimes
-Nine different players accounted for the 13 steals in the game for Mines and forced 18 turnovers by Regis
-The Orediggers held the Rangers to 19-51 (37.3%) shooting for the game and 6-21 (28.6%) three while shooting better than 57% themselves in each half (16-28, 16-27) and shooting 44% from three in the game (11-25)
-Mines scored 36 points in the paint and 23 points off turnovers while getting 43 points from their reserves
-Five different players recorded a block in the game and 11 different players found the scoring column in the game
-The Orediggers now have 11 all-time RMAC regular season titles dating back to 1910 with their most recent coming in 2019
 
UP NEXT
Mines will enjoy the long weekend and celebrate their league title with a long weekend before closing the regular season next Thursday and Saturday at UCCS and CSU Pueblo.

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