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The Ducks — fresh off their Pac-12 conference tournament title run at T-Mobile Arena — quickly moved to 1-point favorites Sunday night over No. 5 seed Wisconsin after opening as 1½-point underdogs.
The Ducks opened the second half on a 20-7 run to seal a 68-48 win over the Huskies on Saturday and the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
Trevelin Queen scored a season-high 27 points off the bench to help New Mexico State to an 89-57 win over Grand Canyon on Saturday in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament title game.
Utah State won its first league tournament title Saturday by defeating San Diego State 64-57 at the Thomas & Mack Center to clinch an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.
Freshman center Neemias Queta had 17 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots to help Utah State to a 64-57 victory over San Diego State on Saturday in the Mountain West Tournament final.
After going 10-22 in his first season and 15-18 in his second, Lew Hill guided the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to 19 wins in 2018-19.
Top-seeded Washington defeated Colorado 66-61 and Oregon edged Arizona State 79-75 in overtime Friday night to advance to the championship game of the Pac-12 Tournament.
Three of former San Diego State coach Steve Fisher’s assistants coached teams in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West Tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two of them advanced to the semifinals.
The junior guard and former UNLV commit has 66 points through the Lopes’ first two games of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament at Orleans Arena.
The Antelopes’ boisterous student section gave the team plenty of energy during an 84-75 win over Seattle in the WAC tournament quarterfinals Thursday at Orleans Arena.
Here we are again — what, has it been 10 minutes, a season, three? — and UNLV’s basketball program is apparently at another crossroads with its coaching position.
The forward was one of four Aggies’ starters that scored in double figures in the team’s 86-49 win over Chicago State in the WAC men’s quarterfinals Thursday at Orleans Arena.
The 6-foot-7-inch sophomore averaged 6.1 points and 5.1 rebounds last year for the Buffaloes, but assumed a more prominent role and nearly doubled his production in both to 13.2 and 9.7 en route to All-Pac-12 first-team honors.
Chicago State has made little progress in the WAC Tournament in three years, but at least it still plays hard.
