Mountain West Conference Championships (2 of 2)

I just found time to write about this past weekend in Las Vegas covering the Mountain West Conference Championships. The Aztecs faired pretty well considering they were all low seeds (men were 4 seeds, women 6 seeds). The women surprised everyone by beating No 3 seed Wyoming on Wednesday night. Even more so was the upset of No. 2 seed TCU on Friday's semifinal match up that sent the Aztecs to the Championship game. 

This image below is after the Aztecs came back to upset TCU. It was a crazy ending that saw a trick play by Quenese Davis who threw the inbounds pass off a TCU defender and hit the layup with just two seconds left on the shot clock. The play ended up Number 6 on Sportcenter's Top Plays. 

The mens team played Air Force on Thursday night and won in what was a terrible basketball game to watch. Somehow they won the game, yet only had four field goals in the entire second half. This is an image of Lorrenzo Wade getting defended tight by Air Force. Wade is the leader of the Aztecs and took over the game, hitting clutch free throws at the end.

Next for the Aztecs was regular season champ, BYU. The two had split their regular season series, 1-1 with each team winning at home.

BYU's Trent Plaisted dominated the paint, scoring easy baskets over SDSU's center Ryan Amoroso (below) The Aztecs lost 63-54.

Head coach Steve Fisher walks off the court in dismay over the poor offensive performance of his team late in the second half of the Aztecs loss.
Over all the weekend was pretty fun. I wish I was 21 so I was not couped up in our hotel room while my friends Devin Kunysz (Editorial Advisor) and Eric Shannon (Sports Editor) had all the fun. Oh well I am probably better for it, and wealthier from not making stupid bets on parlays at the sports book! For more info on our trip, see Devin's daily diary of it.