Utah State knocks off Nevada

Fri., March 2, 2007

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Western Athletic

	Conference		Overall
	W	L	W	L
Nevada	13	2	26	3
N. Mexico St.	11	4	22	7
Fresno St.	9	6	21	8
Utah St.	9	6	21	9
Boise St.	8	7	16	12
Louisiana Tech	7	9	10	19
Hawaii	6	8	16	12
San Jose St.	3	12	4	24
Idaho	1	13	3	24

Thursday's results

Idaho at Hawaii, late

Fresno St. 78, Boise St. 77

New Mexico St. 79, Louisiana Tech 64

Utah St. 79, Nevada 77, OT

Saturday's games

Idaho at San Jose State, 7

Fresno St. at Utah St., 7

New Mexico St. at Nevada, 7

Boise St. at Hawaii, 5

END OF REGULAR SEASON

Around the conference

Ted Knauber and Justin Hawkins scored 16 points each as New Mexico State shot well from behind the 3-point line to beat Louisiana Tech at Las Cruces, N.M. … At Fresno, Calif., Kevin Bell's pull up jumper with 0.6 seconds left lifted Fresno State to a victory over Boise State.

LOGAN, Utah – Chaz Spicer made two free throws with 3.8 seconds left in overtime to give Utah State a 79-77 upset victory over No. 10 Nevada on Thursday night, ending the Wolf Pack’s nine-game winning streak.

Nevada’s Marcelus Kemp missed an off-balance shot he managed to get off before falling out of bounds at the buzzer, but the ball missed everything and had barely landed before Utah State fans swarmed the court.

Stephen DuCharme led Utah State (21-9, 9-7 Western Athletic Conference) with 20 points and took the ball away from Nevada’s Nick Fazekas to set up Spicer’s winning free throws.

Fazekas finished with 20 points and Kemp scored 25 for Nevada (26-3, 13-2), which had already clinched its third straight WAC regular season outright title.

Ramon Sessions added nine points and 12 rebounds for the Wolf Pack, who are as high as they’ve ever been in the polls but will likely to drop from the Top 10.

Nevada had to rally to force overtime after giving up a 10-0 run late in regulation.

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