BYU’s men’s and women’s basketball teams produced entirely different results at the West Coast Conference basketball tournaments in Las Vegas.
The men’s team played horribly and was steamrolled 80-57 by a team it swept in the regular season, San Diego, while the women’s team showed tremendous tenacity and heart in overcoming a 13-point second-half deficit in the semifinals to hold off Pepperdine and then completed a season sweep (3-0) over No. 12-ranked Gonzaga to win its third WCC conference tournament title in eight years.
Men’s coach Dave Rose took a lot of heat on sports radio talk shows and social media outlets for not having the Cougars ready to play.