Brian McGill is turning into the can't-miss kid for the UAA men's basketball team.
In scoring a career-high 34 points Saturday night, McGill took a combined 26 shots from the field and the foul line and hit all but four of them to spark UAA's 86-66 romp over Simon Fraser in Burnaby, British Columbia.
McGill's performance included 11-of-11 free throw shooting, marking the second straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference game in which the senior guard was perfect from the foul line. McGill hit all 15 of his free throws in Thursday's double-overtime win over Western Washington.
For the season, McGill is 68 of 72 from the line for a shooting percentage of 94.4.
He shot 73 percent from the field Saturday, netting 11 of 15 of his field goal attempts. Among his buckets were a layup that gave UAA the lead for good early in the first half and a 3-pointer that put UAA up by double figures for good early in the second half.
The Seawolves (18-7 overall, 11-3 GNAC) seized control with a 7-0 run that broke a 6-6 tie. McGill started the run with his go-ahead layup and continued it with a traditional 3-point play. Then came a putback by Spencer Svejcar that was set up by a McGill steal.
Suki Wiggs poured in 24 points, Christian Leckband collected a career-high 11 rebounds and Corey Hammell added 10 points and five rebounds for the Seawolves, who won their second consecutive conference road game.
Gibran Sewani scored 16 points to lead Simon Fraser (1-19, 0-14).
Against Western Washington on Thursday, the Seawolves couldn't hold onto a 17-point second-half lead and had to labor through two overtimes before getting the win.
Against Simon Fraser, once McGill netted a 3-pointer to give the Seawolves a 53-41 lead six minutes into the second half, UAA's lead never dipped below 10 points the rest of the way.
UAA got a big boost from the foul line. It was 32 of 39, getting 4-of-4 efforts from Leckband and Hammell and a 12-of-17 performance from Wiggs. The Seawolves shot 50 percent from the field.
UAA is midway through a tough eight-day stretch during which it is playing four games in three states and a Canadian province.
After games in Washington on Thursday and Canada on Saturday, the Seawolves next head to Montana for a Tuesday game against Montana State-Billings. Two days later, they'll be back in Alaska for a Thursday game against rival UAF in Anchorage.