A celebration was in order, but Loyola Marymount coach Max Good would have none of it.
Basketball
Kelli Thompson had 27 points, and Rejane Verin piled up 26 points and 19 rebounds as the UNLV women’s basketball team pulled away late to beat Boise State 70-60 on Wednesday night at Boise, Idaho.
UNLV’s basketball team will take its 68-64 victory against Boise State on Tuesday night and not apologize.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — No. 14 Ohio State crashed No. 2 Indiana’s big party plans Tuesday night.
This year’s West Coast Conference tournament has a different feel. A feeling of invincibility.
It was not Anthony Marshall’s final regular-season home game, so there was no ceremony to honor UNLV’s three seniors, but he decided to make it his night anyway.
MINNEAPOLIS — Alonzo Mourning never did it. Shaquille O’Neal didn’t, either. Even Dwyane Wade had never won 15 games in a row as a member of the Miami Heat.
SPOKANE, Wash. — The to-do list for Gonzaga’s basketball team got shorter Monday: For the first time, the Zags were ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll.
NEW YORK — LeBron James stretched his arm above the rim, soaring high on a shaky knee and turning his steal into a finishing dunk as Carmelo Anthony hung his head near midcourt.
LOS ANGELES — Tyler Haws scored 24 points, and Brandon Davies and Matt Carlino added 11 each as Brigham Young defeated Loyola Marymount 73-70 in a West Coast Conference game Saturday night.
BOISE, Idaho — Derrick Marks scored 33 of his career-high 38 points in the second half to lead Boise State to a 78-65 Mountain West victory over Colorado State on Saturday night.
DURHAM, N.C. — Ryan Kelly had waited two months for the chance to help his Duke teammates reclaim the form that made them the nation’s top-ranked team.
MINNEAPOLIS — It was 1984, the night before the biggest game of Bill Bayno’s college career, and the junior forward at Sacred Heart was sitting quietly in a hotel bar.
RENO — It was almost three months ago when a dislocated right elbow turned Mike Moser’s junior season upside down.
UCLA freshman star Shabazz Muhammad has decided to enter the NBA Draft after this season, Bruins coach Ben Howland said Saturday night.