BYU’s men’s basketball team probably is going to have to defeat perennial nemesis San Diego, second-seeded Saint Mary’s and top-seeded Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference tournament to get the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The BYU women, like the men, placed third in the WCC race behind champion Gonzaga and runner-up Saint Mary’s and face a sixth-seeded San Diego team that seemingly had their number in the regular season.
The Cougars (16-13, 11-7) and Toreros (15-14, 8-10) tip off at 7 p.m. MST Thursday in a WCC women’s quarterfinal game at Orleans Arena. San Diego swept BYU in league play, winning 70-69 at Jenny Craig Pavilion and 66-60 at the Marriott Center.