PROVO — When the BYU baseball program found out it had won its first outright regular season conference championship in 30 years and earned the No. 1 seed in the upcoming West Coast Conference Tournament for the first time, the celebration was somewhat subdued.
The Cougars finished the regular season with a victory over Santa Clara last Saturday. That night, BYU was flying back home when Loyola Marymount defeated Gonzaga, which meant that the Cougars had clinched the outright title.
“There was no dog pile when we won the (outright) championship. Of course, we found out while we were on an airplane — that would have been awkward,” joked coach Mike Littlewood, who was sitting near the front of the plane that night.