ANAHEIM, Calif. — A Big West Conference men’s basketball season in which anything was possible for Hawai’i ended Thursday night, fittingly with a game and final shot that could have gone either way.
Max Hazzard drained a 15-foot pull-up jumper from the left side with 5.5 seconds remaining to lift UC Irvine to a thrilling 68-67 comeback victory over the Warriors in the Big West Conference men’s basketball quarterfinals at the Honda Center.
A stunned crowd of about 3,500 at the Honda Center watched Evan Leonard score a game-high 24 points and Essayu Worku add 18 points as the Anteaters overcame a late 10-point deficit in the final four minutes.