Sunday's championship game will be a pairing of 4-0 clubs as Rochester faces Wisconsin-Superior which rallied for an 88-84 victory over St. Lawrence in the openign game. The UW Yellowjackets had five men in double figures. Floyd Nyemeck-Bayih led the way with 24.
UW's win overshadowed a superb performance by St. Lawrence senior Aaron Marshall. He scored 38 points and pulled down 18 rebounds. Marshall broke the tournament record for field goals made (he snak 17, it was 16) and tied the standing record of 18 rebounds.
Rochester-Clarkson was sluggish for the first 10 minutes with neither team taking control. A three-pointer by Clarkson's Jon Youngmann gave the Golden Knights a 12-10 lead with 10:33 to play.
Mee sank the first of his six threes to ignite a 19-2 run over five minutes that put Rochester in control at 29-14. Mee and Seth Hauben had six points apiece in the run. It was 37-26 at halftime.
In the second half, Mee sdank three more treys in less than two minutes as the lead stretched to 27, 62-35, with 11:50 to play.
Hauben scored 16 points, Jon Onyiriuka had 14, and Jeff Juron had 13. Onyiriuka grabbed 15 rebounds - nine offensive - and Hauben had 11 to give Rochester a commanding 52-28 advantage off the glass. Juron had six assists.
Youngmann scored a team-high 12 points for the Golden Knights. Kevin Bolduc scored nine points.