LAS VEGAS — Now they wait.
Bloodied, bruised and nervous, fate is out of the hands of the Colorado State basketball team.
Utah State snatched the right to guarantee another game with a 62-50 late, late Friday night/Saturday morning Mountain West semifinal win at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The NCAA tournament discussion for CSU will take further shape Saturday, but the clearest path to the Big Dance was through Utah State.
That’s a heck of a task, though.
No. 2-seeded Utah State (20-7) has won back-to-back Mountain West tournaments and Friday was an absolute battle befitting the status of a potential NCAA tournament play-in game.
Read the full story from The Coloradoan here.
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