WAC tournament

[LA_Mustang]

How is the tournament set up? Does the 10th place school (SJSU) not make it and 8 and 9, us and Tulsa, have a play in game for the 8th seed? I cant remember.

[Pony_Fan]

According the DMN: SMU will play Tulsa again in the first round of the WAC Tournament next week in Fresno, Calif

[LA_Mustang]

I found it. So I guess we will play Tulsa at 11:30pm on Tuesday. If we win that game we will likely face UTEP on Thursday. I really believe we have the talent to beat anyone in the WAC if we play loose and up to potential. I promise you that UTEP does not want to play us on Thursday. This could be an interesting week/weekend.

*** Western Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament ***
(Seeds in Parenthesis)

From The Sports Network

Site: Save Mart Center (16,116) -- Fresno, California
Dates: Tuesday, March 9th through Saturday, March 13th
Annual: 21st
Defending Champion: Tulsa def. Nevada, 75-64
Television: ESPN2 (Championship Game)

Tuesday, March 9th - Opening Round
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(10) vs. (7)

(9) vs. (8)

Game times are 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 11th - Quarterfinal Round
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(10)/(7) winner vs. (2)

(9)/(8) winner vs. (1)

(6) vs. (3)

(5) vs. (4)

Game times are 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Friday, March 12th - Semifinal Round
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Game One, 9 p.m.

Game Two, 11:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 13th - Championship Game
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Semifinal winners, 9 p.m.

Tournament Titles and Records

School Titles Last Tourney Record
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Texas-El Paso 4 1990 22-14
Hawaii 3 2002 20-16
Tulsa 1 2003 12-6
Fresno State 1 2000 9-9
S-M-U 0 5-7
Nevada 0 3-3
Rice 0 2-6
Boise State 0 1-2
San Jose State 0 1-6
Louisiana Tech 0 0-2

Past WAC Tournament Winners, Results and Most Valuable Players
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2003 -- Tulsa def. Nevada, 75-64 (Kevin Jonson)
2002 -- Hawaii def. Tulsa, 73-59 (Predrag Savovic)
2001 -- Hawaii def. Tulsa, 78-72 OT (Carl English)
2000 -- Fresno State def. Tulsa, 75-72 (Courtney Alexander)
1999 -- Utah def. New Mexico, 60-45 (Alex Jenson)
1998 -- U-N-L-V def. New Mexico, 56-51 (Kenny Thomas)
1997 -- Utah def. T-C-U, 89-68 (Keith Van Horn)
1996 -- New Mexico def. Utah, 64-60 (Kenny Thomas)
1995 -- Utah def. Hawaii, 67-54 (Keith Van Horn)
1994 -- Hawaii def. B-Y-U, 73-66 (Trevor Ruffin)
1993 -- New Mexico def. Texas-El Paso, 76-65 (Ike Williams)
1992 -- B-Y-U def. Texas-El Paso, 73-71 (Eddie Rivera)
1991 -- B-Y-U def. Utah, 51-49 (Shawn Bradley)
1990 -- Texas-El Paso def. Hawaii, 75-58 (Greg Foster)
1989 -- Texas-El Paso def. Colorado State, 73-60 (Tim Hardaway)
1988 -- Wyoming def. Texas-El Paso, 79-75 (Eric Leckner)
1987 -- Wyoming def. New Mexico, 64-62 (Eric Leckner)
1986 -- Texas-El Paso def. Wyoming, 65-64 (Eric Leckner)
1985 -- San Diego State def. Texas-El Paso, 87-81 (Luster Goodwin)
1984 -- Texas-El Paso def. Wyoming, 62-55 (Juden Smith)

NOTES:
Winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. All
Times Eastern. After losing the previous three championship games, last
year, Tulsa advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a win over Nevada, 75-64.
New Mexico, Utah, BYU and Wyoming won this tournament twice each when they
were members of the conference. San Diego State and UNLV captured the
tournament once each when members of the conference.

[SMUguy]

We've shown we can beat Tulsa. The guys seem to be playing with a new aggressiveness now that Lineburg is running the team, and it seems like the emotion level of the team is much higher. With that said, even a poor team like Tulsa is very difficult to beat three times in a single season.

You're right - we could beat UTEP. But it would take an extremely strong effort.

Which is exactly what I'm counting on (not that I'm overlooking Tulsa, of course. First things first....)