SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Santa Clara men's basketball couldn't have scripted a better time to get hot. The Broncos closed out their regular season on Saturday evening with an 81-63 thumping over San Diego to pick up their seventh-straight victory, and will carry that streak into next week's WCC Tournament in Las Vegas.
Santa Clara has locked up the No. 3 seed in the tournament by finishing with an 11-5 overall record to finish third in the WCC behind co-regular season champions Saint Mary's and Gonzaga. It's the Broncos' second-straight season finishing third in the final standings, something that had not been achieved previously since the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons.