VCU tops Fordham in Atlantic 10 tournament
Max Shulga had 14 points and VCU beat Fordham 69-62 on Wednesday in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament in New York.
Fifth-seeded VCU will play No. 4 seed UMass today in the quarterfinals.
Shulga added seven rebounds for the Rams (20-12). Toibu Lawal scored 13 points and added six rebounds. Zeb Jackson had 10 points.
Kyle Rose led the Rams (13-20) with 19 points.
More Atlantic 10
Saint Joseph’s 64, George Mason 57: Cameron Brown had 16 points and Saint Joseph’s beat George Mason in the Atlantic 10 Tournament.
Ninth-seeded Saint Joseph’s (20-12) advances to play top-seeded Richmond in the quarterfinals today.
Baraka Okojie had 22 points and six rebounds for the Patriots (20-12), while Amari Kelly added 14 points and four blocks.
Big 12 Tournament
No. 20 BYU 87, Central Florida 73: Fousseyni Traore had 14 points and 10 rebounds, Richie Saunders scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half and BYU (23-9) squandered a big early lead before pulling away late for a victory over UCF (17-15) in the second round of the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City.
Late Tuesday
CAA Tournament final Charleston 82, Stony Brook 79
(OT): Reyne Smith scored eight of his 23 points in overtime and finished with six 3-pointers, and top-seeded Charleston beat No. 7 seed Stony Brook to claim the Coastal Athletic Association Tournament and an NCAA bid for a second straight season.
Smith poked the ball away from Tyler Stephenson-Moore near the 3-point arc and sank a 3-pointer at the other end to extend Charleston’s lead to 78-73 midway through overtime. But that was Charleston’s final field goal of the game and Ante Brzovic only made one free throw in two trips to the line to keep Stony Brook in it.
After Aaron Clarke made a quick 3-pointer for Stony Brook (20-15) with 3.9 seconds left, Smith sank 1 of 2 free throws for a three-point lead. Dean Noll grabbed the defensive rebound and launched a threequarter-length shot that almost banked in at the buzzer.
Charleston (27-7) became the first team to win back-to-back CAA tournament championships since UNC Wilmington in 2016 and ’17.
Stephenson-Moore finished with 26 points and seven 3-pointers for Stony Brook. West Coast final No. 21 Saint Mary’s 69, No. 17 Gonzaga 60: Aidan Mahaney scored 23 points, Mitchell Saxen had 19 points and 15 rebounds and Saint Mary’s led nearly the entire way to beat Gonzaga and interrupt the Bulldogs’ stranglehold on the West Coast Conference Tournament title.
Gonzaga (25-7) had won four WCC championships in a row and 10 of 11, with Saint Mary’s in 2019 the one year the Bulldogs didn’t claim the trophy. The Gaels (26-7) earned the conference’s automatic bid for the NCAA Tournament. Big 12 women’s final No. 6 Texas 70, Iowa State 53:
Madison Booker had a big first quarter on her way to 26 points, Aaliyah Moore added 14 and Texas (30-4) cruised to a win over fourthseeded Iowa State (20-11) for the SEC-bound Longhorns’ second Big 12 Tournament title in three years.
The Longhorns avenged a loss to the Cyclones in last year’s championship game while giving the NCAA Tournament selection committee another reason to consider them for a No. 1 seed.