Elijah Bryant and Yoeli Childs scored 15 points apiece and Dalton Nixon added 14 off the bench as the Cougars took a 72-60 win over lowly Portland at Chiles Center on Thursday night to clinch the third seed in next week’s West Coast Conference tournament.
Childs scored all 15 of his points in the first half and played sparingly in the second half. TJ Haws added 10, but tweaked an ankle driving to the hoop late in the game. He returned and hit a big 3-pointer with just over two minutes remaining to seal the victory.
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