BYUH Wins First PacWest Men's Basketball Championship Title - Mar 8, 2015

BYU-Hawaii won its first PacWest Men's Basketball Championship tournament title, beating California Baptist, 84-79, in the finals Saturday. One of only two teams to make the tournament each of the last three years, BYUH won in its first finals appearance and claimed the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA West Regional.
Robbie Mitchell (5'9''-PG) scored a team-high 18 points for BYUH and had four steals. Pablo Coro (6'3''-G-90) added 14, while Daniel Berger (6'8''-G-90) and tournament MVP Scott Friel (6'5''-G) chipped in 11 apiece. Gelaun Wheelwright (6'2''-G-93) netted a game-high 25 for CBU, making five three-pointers. Taj Spencer (6'7''-F) had 16 points and seven rebounds.
Cal Baptist scored eight-straight points in less than two minutes to take an early 18-10 lead. Eric Nelson put an exclamation point on the run with an alley-oop dunk, assisted by Berg. Corey Langerveld (6'5''-F) hit a three-pointer from the left wing to cap a 9-2 run that put BYUH ahead 32-31. CBU scored twice to retake the lead at halftime, 35-32.
BYUH came out on fire in the second half, making 8 of its first 10 shots to outscore the Lancers 19-4 and take a 53-39 lead. Berger scored nine points, including a transition three-pointer. CBU answered right back with a 12-3 spurt, taking the ball inside for five shots in the paint, to pull within five, 56-51, just past the midway point of the half.
Wheelwright grabbed two offensive rebounds and made a pull-up three, but Lang came right back with one of his own to keep BYUH up by six as the game went under five minutes. From then on, BYUH shot 16-for-16 at the free throw line to keep CBU from completing a comeback.

Courtesy of thePacWest

PacWest Tournament Final: BYU-Hawaii - California Baptist 84-79
PacWest Tournament Semifinals:
BYU-Hawaii - Dixie State 98-75
California Baptist - Azusa Pacific 78-67