Las Vegas • Almost anything the BYU did Monday night against Saint Mary’s would have been better than what happened last March in the semifinals of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament.
The remaining variable in this tournament is that a lot could go wrong for BYU, facing No. 6 Gonzaga in Tuesday’s championship game. Yet the Cougars (24-9) have given themselves a shot at their first conference tournament title since 2001, and they hardly could ask for more than this opportunity to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.
BYU earned Monday’s victory with 33 points from forward Yoeli Childs and 25 from guard Elijah Bryant, 61.