HELENA, Mont. -- No. 22 Carroll College remained unbeaten this season with a convincing 101-60 win over Northwest University on Saturday in the PE Center as part of the Carroll Classic. 

The Saints played only seven players, but were deadly from beyond the three-point line, hitting 12-of-21 threes on the night, and were pesky defensively, holding Northwest to its second lowest scoring output of the season. 

The Eagles' lowest output? A 70-59 loss to, you guessed it, the Saints earlier this November.

"They buckled down on defense," Saints coach Kurt Paulson said of his squad. 

It didn't start that way for the Saints, who found themselves trailing early.

"The first few minutes of the game we didn't look that sharp," Paulson said. "We were down eight points. We had to regroup and have a timeout and refresh our memories of what the game plan was."

After trailing by eight early in the first half at 14-6, the Saints unleashed 43-14 run to end the half to take a 49-28 lead into halftime. 

Carroll kept its pace in the second half to put away the very same Northwest team the Saints battled to an 11-point win just two weeks ago. 

Junior guard Dane Warp led all scorers with 28 points and nearly finished with a second consecutive triple-double, adding seven rebounds and seven assists. 

"Dane's playing well," Paulson said. "I like the seven assists. He's making plays, finding teammates. I think he probably set up Jovan (Sljivancanin) a lot. That's what I love." 

Sljivancanin finished with a career-high 23 points, going 9-of-12 from the field while pulling down 11 rebounds and adding four assists.

"He was huge tonight," Paulson said. "He's a big guard. He's 6-5, long arms, big hands. He got He's a tough guard. He can shoot it. He's deceivingly quick."

Perhaps most impressive from the 9-0 Saints: This weekend they played only seven players in both wins, as Thomas Austefjord and Ife Kalejaiye both did not play. 

Carroll enters Frontier Conference play with an unblemished record and gets a tough test early as Providence comes to the PE Center on Thursday.