BYU Basketball (19-12) will make its first appearance in the 2019 WCC Tournament Saturday night against a familiar opponent as of late — the San Diego Toreros (20-13).
The seventh-seeded San Diego Toreros played on Thursday, the opening night of the WCC Tournament in Las Vegas, and beat 10-seed Portland, 67-47. On Friday night they easily handled no. 6 Santa Clara, defeating them 62-45.
Third-seeded BYU played its regular season finale against USD just last week at the Marriott Center and won that match, 87-73. In BYU and USD’s first meeting in San Diego, the Cougars won in overtime, 88-82.