Westmont's Adrian McIntyre keeps rewriting Warrior basketball history, and this time he also etched his name into the Pacific West Conference record books as well. The senior guard went off for 51 points on Saturday at home against Point Loma, leading the Warriors to a 99-89 overtime upset over the first place Sea Lions. He had 87 points for the week to claim his sixth PacWest Player of the Week award. Westmont is the Team of the Week, and Hawai`i Pacific clamped down on two opponents to earn Defender of the Week.

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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Westmont's Adrian McIntyre, Sr., G, 6-3, Sylmar, Calif.                                
Westmont's Adrian McIntyre continues to have a season for the ages, and last Saturday night in Santa Barbara he had a game for all-time. The senior guard scored 51 points, clipping the previous PacWest record of 50 points by Fresno Pacific's John Taylor in 2013 against Roberts Wesleyan. He also broke the Westmont record for points in a game, which was 46, turned in by Tine Hardeman in 1955--a record that stood for 70 years. McIntyre had 16 of his points in overtime, when he was 5-of-6 from the field and 5-of-6 from the free throw line. He shot 68 percent from the field (17-25), hit 16 of 21 free throws, had seven rebounds and four assists. Earlier in the week, he had a comparingly pedestrian 36 points in a win over Vanguard, also shooting 68 percent from the field (13-19) and hitting 8-of-9 free throw attempts. That gave him 87 points for the week (43.5 ppg). Now at nation-leading 28.1 points per game, Taylor's PacWest season record of 27.5 is also in sight.

DEFENDER OF THE WEEK: Hawai`i Pacific's Team                                                                                    
Hawai`i Pacific continued the trend of team defense getting mentioned, following Hawai`i Hilo and Point Loma who have also been honored this year as the PacWest Defender of the Week. The Sharks went 2-0 with wins over Jessup and Fresno Pacific to improve to 7-7 in PacWest play, 1.5 games out of the final spot in the 6-team PacWest tournament field in March. Most impressively, HPU clamped down on FPU in a 62-46 win, the lowest scoring total for a PacWest opponent in a conference game this year. The Sharks held FPU to 29 percent shooting from the floor and 13% from three-point range. The Sharks had a 40-27 rebound edge, including 33-16 on the defensive end of the court. Tucker Pellicci spearheaded the defensive effort with four blocked shots and Joshua West had eight rebounds.

TEAM OF THE WEEK: Westmont Warriors                                                                                                    
Westmont took took two large leaps into PacWest tournament contention last week with wins over Vanguard and Point Loma. That bumped the Warriors' record to 8-7 in conference play, now in fifth place in the conference standings, just scant percentage points ahead of Chaminade (9-8). Westmont started the week on Wednesday with a hard fought 78-75 win over the Lions behind Adrian McIntyre's 36 points and seven rebounds. Jarrett Bryant added 19 points, eight rebounds and four blocks to the Westmont total. Then on Saturday, the Warriors pulled off the upset of the season thus far and McIntyre had the game of the year. WC took down Point Loma, 99-89 in overtime, giving the Sea Lions just their second loss in conference play (13-2). Westmont outscored the PLNU 25-15 in overtime, with McIntyre scoring 16 of his PacWest record 51 points in the extra period. Drew Ramirez chipped in 15 points for the Warriors, who have now won four of their last five games.

THIS WEEK: There is a lot on the PacWest menu this week, with a match-up every day of the week. Today (Monday), Chaminade hosts Fresno Pacific and Jessup is at Hawai`i Hilo. On Tuesday, Academy of Art steps outside of PacWest play to take on UC Santa Cruz. On Wednesday, Biola is at Concordia and Westmont goes to Azusa Pacific. On Thursday, Hawaii Pacific is at Dominican and Chaminade is at Hawaii Hilo, and Friday sees Menlo at Fresno Pacific. Saturday's slate icludes Hawaii Pacific at Jessup, Westmont at Academy of Art, Vanguard at Biola and Concordia at Point Loma.To see the complete list, click here.

PACWEST NEWS AND NOTES: In addition to Westmont's week, Hawai`i Pacific, Biola and Academy of Art also went 2-0. The Eagles and Urban Knights both topped Dominican and Menlo, while the Sharks got by Jessup and Fresno Pacific...The Road to San Rafael is a little clearer this week but still a long ways from being completely paved. Point Loma is in first (13-2), followed by Biola (12-4), Academy of Art (10-4), Hawai`i Hilo (7-6), Westmont (8-7) and Chaminade (9-8) occupying the top six spots. The next groupings of teams still in the hunt are Concordia and Hawaii Pacific at 7-7 and Azusa Pacific and Fresno Pacific at 7-9...Concordia stayed alive with a 59-58 win over Azusa Pacific, finalized by Jaden Henderson's two free throws with five seconds left. Henderson led the Golden Eagles with 15 points and Jayce Catchings added ten points, ten rebounds and four steals...Biola had big games from Daniel Esparza (26 points) and Casey Cappo (22 points, six rebounds) during a 87-72 win over Menlo. Esparza had 20 and Davian Brown had 21 in the Eagles 72-65 win over Dominican...Fresno Pacific upset Hawai`i Hilo (65-52) with Liam Switzer leading the way with 13 points and eight boards...Academy of Art beat Dominican (75-62) and Menlo (84-72). Against the Oaks, Isaiah Williams had 26 points...In Point Loma's OT loss to Westmont, Zach Paulsen had a career high 33 points, hitting six three-pointers. Paulsen also had two free throws with two seconds left in regulation to send the game to extra time...In Chaminade's one game of the week, the Silverswords topped Jessup, 72-66. Jackson Last had 20 points...Azusa Pacific held off Vanguard 73-72 on Saturday. The Cougars led by as many as nine points in the second half, only to see the Lions cut that margin to one before time ran out. Jordan Hansen led the Cougars with 21 points before fouling out and Bryan Metz had 19 for Vanguard.

D2 WEST REGION POLL: Point Loma had to share first place in this week's (Feb. 10) D2CSC West Region poll. (T1) Point Loma 20-5, (T1) CS Dominguez Hills 18-4, (3) Chico State 17-5, (4) St. Martin's 19-6, (5) Central Washington 16-6, (6) Biola 18-6, (7) Northwest Nazarene 16-4, (8) CS San Bernardino 16-9, (9) Academy of Art 14-7, (10) Cal Poly Humboldt 13-8. RV--Western Washington.