Utah Valley Wolverines

OGDEN -- Weber State's first postseason tourney win since March 11, 1999, didn't have quite the cachet of a 14 seed upsetting North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but the Wildcats will take it as long as they can keep playing.

Junior point guard Damian Lillard had 21 points and Scott Bamforth scored all of his 16 points in the second half as Weber State battled its way to a 72-69 victory over Utah Valley on Tuesday in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament after the Wolverines missed a 3 to tie at the buzzer.

OGDEN -- The Wildcats think it's time to write a new ending to their story.

After going 24-6 this season and finishing in second place in the Big Sky Conference, Weber State has the highest winning percentage of any team invited to the fourth annual CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

CHICAGO -- Chris Flores scored 27 points to lead NJIT to an 88-78 overtime victory over top-seeded Utah Valley in the Great West Conference tournament semifinals Friday.

The fourth-seeded Highlanders (15-16) will face second-seeded North Dakota in Saturday's championship game.

LOGAN -- Coming out of the inbounds play, Hawaii's Zane Johnson promptly smacked Utah State point guard Brockeith Pane into the press row, causing a replay TV to take a fall and Pane to have a closer-than-anticipated meeting with the advisor of the Utah State University newspaper.

For guard Preston Medlin, it didn't matter. After all, his team's two-game losing streak, halted with a 77-72 win over Hawaii Thursday night, hurt a lot more than any pain inflicted by the Warriors.

"They're definitely as physical as anybody we've played this season," said Medlin, who led all scorers with 25 points on 13 of 14 shooting from the free-throw line. "We expected that all week. They are pretty tall and pretty wide."

PROVO -- Matt Carlino scored 22 points and Noah Hartsock 21 to guide BYU past UC Santa Barbara 89-75 on Thursday night.

Brandon Davies added 17 and Charles Abouo 16 for the Cougars (10-3), who won their second in a row. Carlino also had six assists.

Orlando Johnson and James Nunnally scored 22 points apiece for the Gauchos (5-5), who dropped their third straight. Jaime Serna added 12 points and Kyle Boswell 10. Johnson had a game-high nine rebounds.

LOGAN -- How long the Aggies can win more games in the ugly fashion they have been displaying remains to be seen. But Tuesday night in the Smith Spectrum, it was at least enough for USU president Stan Albrecht.

The university president spent the first half watching from the first row of the student section and mingling with the enthusiastic teenagers and twenty-somethings -- all the while passing out a slew of churros -- as the Aggies (4-4) claimed a 63-54 victory over Utah Valley (5-5) on the court.

Members of the La Roca girls soccer club -- representing several area high schools -- collectively signed their letters of intent on Wednesday night at Bonneville High School in front of family, friends and soccer fans.