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WCC women: Top-seeded BYU falls to San Francisco in stunning title-game loss

“We’ve probably done it 26 times right. Tonight, we didn’t do what we needed to do at the end.”

LAS VEGAS — The top-seeded BYU women’s basketball team enjoyed an ideal start in Tuesday’s West Coast Conference championship game.

But it ended in bitter disappointment for the Cougars.

No. 6 seed San Francisco rallied from a 15-point first-quarter deficit, took its first lead with 17.2 seconds left and held on to knock off BYU 70-68.

With the win, the Dons won their first WCC tournament title since 1997 and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.