Sean Higgs WCC Tournament thoughts

March 1, 2012

Sean Higgs WCC Tournament thoughts

Higgs is here with some WCC insight

All games are being played at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. 1 seed St Mary’s and 2 seed Gonzaga have byes till the semi-finals.

Favorites. Well you probably heard of this Gonzaga team before. St Mary’s is a good club and showed it by winning their first outright conference title since 1989.

The Sleepers. I am not going to call BYU a sleeper. I mean 24-7 on the year and 12-4 in conference is not really laying in the weeds. I will call on the Dons of San Francisco to be my sleeper. These guys just closed out the season playing St Mary’s 67-60 loss, Gonzaga 66-65 win, and BYU 85-84 loss all at home. That is about as tough a 3 game stretch as a team could play. We can argue they could have gone 0-3, 3-0 or 2-1. SF is the sleeper of the WCC.

Wasted Money. The bottom of this conference is really terrible. Santa Clara went 0-16 in conference and Portland State 3-13 with Pepperdine at 4-12. None of those teams will do anything.