Southern Utah Is Favorite in American West

By MIKE HISERMAN

March 10, 1995 12 AM PT

CEDAR CITY, Utah —

The four-team American West Conference will begin its basketball tournament at Southern Utah today with nowhere to go but home when it ends. The American West is among four conferences that do not receive automatic invitations to the Division I NCAA tournament.

Champion Southern Utah, in fact, may not even get a NIT spot due to a mediocre overall record.

In first-round games today, Cal State Northridge (7-19, 4-2) meets Cal State Sacramento (6-20, 2-4) at 2 p.m. and Southern Utah (15-11, 6-0) plays Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (1-25, 0-6) at 7 p.m.

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Mike Hiserman

Mike Hiserman is former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. He wrote for the Long Beach Press Telegram and Orange County Register before joining The Times in 1982 and won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting on betting scams. Hiserman has been Sports editor of The Times’ San Fernando Valley and Orange County editions. He retired in November 2020.

Southern Utah Is Favorite in American West

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