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WKU 'stopped ourselves' in C-USA championship loss to UTSA

SAN ANTONIO – Western Kentucky's mistakes in Friday's Conference USA championship game didn't just play a part in the Hilltoppers' 49-41 loss to UTSA in the Alamodome.

"It was everything," WKU head coach Tyson Helton said.

Self-inflicted wounds through the first two and a half quarters caused the Hilltoppers to get in a hole they could never dig themselves out of against the Roadrunners as they tried unsuccessfully to claim WKU's first C-USA title since 2016.

"I felt like in the first half, everything that we called was working. We just stopped ourselves. It wasn't really anything they did.