Las Vegas • On the bubble for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, by most accounts, BYU’s women’s basketball team could really use a win in Monday’s West Coast Conference tournament semifinal game against Pepperdine to solidify its chances to make the Big Dance.
If the WCC’s revamped tournament format has proven anything, at least on the men’s side, it is that lower seeds who have a game or two under their belts have a nice advantage against teams getting their first taste of the atmosphere at Orleans Arena. Seventh-seeded San Diego’s 80-57 pummeling of third-seeded BYU in a men’s quarterfinal game late Saturday night is ample evidence of that.