Saint Mary’s won 83-57 at Pepperdine late Thursday to improve to 24-6 overall, and 15-0 in the West Coast Conference, with just one regular-season game remaining. Everybody else in the WCC has at least two league losses.
So that’ll do it.
The Gaels are now the outright WCC champs regardless of what happens Saturday against Gonzaga. This marks just the second time in the past 24 seasons that somebody has prevented the Zags from getting at least a share of the West Coast Conference regular-season title.