PROVO — San Francisco spoiled some of the drama for Saturday night’s BYU-San Diego regular-season finale at the Marriott Center by losing at home to Loyola Marymount earlier in the day.
With that outcome, the Cougars clinched the No. 3 seed in next week’s West Coast Conference Tournament.
With a little less than 10 minutes left in the game against USD, BYU was up by a seemingly comfortable 20 points, 69-49.
But the Toreros provided some late drama with a 24-10 run to cut the deficit to six points, 79-73, with two minutes remaining.
At that point, everybody in the building remembered the Cougars squandering a 14-point lead over the final eight minutes a little more than a week ago at home against USF.