Late Tuesday night: two tourney game reports + more

The Texas State - Seattle matchup featured a team scoring 90 points in it's last game versus one that played damn near everyone close in conference play. What came to be is a 68-56 victory for the Bobcats as forward Joel Wright shot 7-12 from the floor and 12-14 from the foul line to finish with 26 points. He also just missed a double-double by grabbed nine rebounds. Frontcourt teammate Matt Staff scored 13 points on 6-13 shooting and blocked a pair of shots. Overall, Coach Doug Davalos' squad shot 22-44 and 22-26 from the charity stripe while pilfering 11 steals and committing just 13 turnovers.

For the Redhawks, guard Prince Obasi posted a double-double of 13 points and 10 boards while forward Deshaun Sunderhaus led with 15 points but was accurate on just 3-11 from the floor. Coach Cameron Dollar's guys were 19-56 in overall shooting, 13-16 at the foul line but had 19 turnovers and just five steals.

Texas State won both 20 minutes, 36-28 and 32-38 and also came out ahead 12-2 on fast break points.

Tyler Mayforth live-tweeted the game.

Here's Texas State Sports at halftime.

Bobcat athletics and Redhawk athletics game report.

Texas State now plays Denver on Thursday.

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Completing the night's action, San Jose State University and Texas San Antonio faced off in the second game and the Roadrunners grabbed a 67-49 win. A 28-16 halftime lead blossomed into a larger advantage in the second half for Coach Brooks Thompson's team which shot 1-11 from three-point range but 50% overall.

Thompson shortened his rotation and received solid shooting efforts from forward Jeromie Hill (21 points, 8-15 accuracy, plus 10 rebounds) and guard Kannon Burrage (20 points, 8/14 shooting) plus, of all players, forward Edrico McGregor who was a perfect 7-7 on his way to 14 points (he entered the game averaging 3.8 points a contest in WAC play). Michael Hale III (4-13) was off target and contributed 10 points. A big differential for the Roadrunners was a 44-28 in-the-paint points supremacy.

For the Spartans, backcourter LaVanne Pennington led with 21 points although 1-9 long distance shooting marred his closer-in accuracy. Forward Chris Cunningham added 12 points and nine boards, just missing a double-double. Pennington's seven rebounds is also deserving of mention. Overall, SJSU shot 18-56, 2-21 from outside. A 3-18 shooting start was impossible to overcome.

Roadrunner athletics and Jerry Briggs game report.

Texas San Antonio now plays Louisiana Tech on Thursday.

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In non-game items:

Jeff Goodman checks the tenure temperature of each WAC coach.

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Jason Groves provides his thoughts on the WAC tourney matchups.

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Timothy R. Olsen digs into whether Texas Arlington's two wins over USU this season truly marks them as the better team.

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Shawn Harrison writes about the 'new season' for the Logan-ites.

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Paul Klee makes the case for Denver and others to be included in the Big Dance regardless of winning a conference tournament, plus he offers suggestions for new voices at the selection table.