The tournament title gave the WAC's regular season champs their sixth trip to the NCAA tournament in 10 years, but first since 2006.
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev. (AP) _ Utah State coach Stew Morrill doesn't have to worry anymore if his Aggies' 30-4 record is good enough to get them into the NCAA tournament. The Aggies made sure they'd be in the field of 65 with a 72-62 win over Nevada in the Western Athletic Conference championship on Saturday night. Gary Wilkinson scored 21 points and Jared Quayle and Tai Wesley each had double-doubles. Quayle had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Wesley 14 points and 11 rebounds for the top-seeded Aggies, who held Nevada scoreless for the first 61/2 minutes and denied Wolf Pack scoring leader Luke Babbitt a field goal until 16:24 was left in the game. The tournament title gave the WAC's regular season champs their sixth trip to the NCAA tournament in 10 years, but first since 2006. ``The one thing I told our guys coming into this tournament is that we had to treat this like the only way we were going to the NCAAs is if we won this,'' Morrill said. ``Before we came here I kept hearing, ``We're in, we're in.'' Then I heard we had to win one and we're in. Then I heard that we had to win in the semifinals to get in. Well, all I know is, we're in now.'' Armon Johnson scored 17 of his 20 points in the second half while Babbitt, a freshman, finished with only eight points on 3-of-12 shooting for second-seeded Nevada (21-12), which made only two of its first 21 attempts from the field and shot 30 percent. Nevada coach Mark Fox said Babbitt had an injured back. ``We got outplayed. It wasn't our night,'' said Fox, whose team watched five of its first six shots roll around the rim before falling off. ``We had a lot of little, easy looks at the basket that we did not finish. At one point it was 10-0 and it should have been 10-10. We just didn't finish,'' he said. ``Fatigue, certainly, was probably a part of that. Being young physically was probably more of a factor. We just couldn't physically answer ... |
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