WCC Alters Bracket For 2012 Basketball Tourney
Next season's West Coast Conference basketball tournament will start earlier and last longer to accommodate BYU when it becomes the ninth team in the league.
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Next season's West Coast Conference basketball tournament will start earlier and last longer to accommodate BYU when it becomes the ninth team in the league.
Gonzaga (24-9) received an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament for its 13th straight appearance. Saint Mary's (24-8) will have to hope for an at-large berth.
San Jose State women's basketball coach Pam DeCosta has resigned after four seasons with the Spartans.
20th-ranked Gonzaga beat Saint Mary's 72-46 to claim its third straight West Coast Conference tournament title.
California guard Allen Crabbe was picked as top freshman in the Pac-10 Conference on Monday, one of the league's key basketball awards.
Mitchell Young scored 17 points off the bench and freshman Stephen Holt added 15 to lead No. 1 seed Saint Mary's to a 73-64 victory over No. 4 seed Santa Clara in the semifinals of the West Coast Conference tournament Sunday night.
Allen Crabbe scored 21 of his 24 points in the second half, Harper Kamp added 20 points and California beat Bay Area rival Stanford 74-55 on Saturday for its fourth straight win.
Omar Samhan scored more than 700 baskets, grabbed over 1,000 rebounds, scored nearly 2,000 points and played on the winning side in nearly 100 college basketball games at Saint Mary's.
Zane Johnson scored 26 points and Bill Amis added 19 to lead Hawaii to a 77-71 victory over San Jose State on Thursday night.
No. 2 Stanford capped a second straight unbeaten run through the Pac-10 Conference with a 75-51 victory over rival California on Thursday night.
It was announced that the Pac-10 conference was replacing 11 officials with 16 new ones for the first season of Pac-12 play.
CBS News and Sports Illustrated are making a big splash out of what they're calling "an unprecedented investigation" into the criminal records of college football players.
