BYU Basketball bounced out of NCAA March Tournament

BYU, after making it to the second round, is out of the NCAA March Basketball Tournament. Photo: courtesy of BYU

NEWARK, New Jersey — Brigham Young University’s (BYU) men’s basketball team was eliminated from the NCAA March Madness tournament on Thursday night, losing 113-88 to Alabama in the Sweet 16 round held in New Jersey.

The No. 2 seed Crimson Tide brought the heat to the No. 6 seed Cougars, as Mark Sears made school history by sinking 10 three-pointers and scoring 34 points, breaking a 30-year record.

It was one three away from a tournament record.

“Over the last three games, I’d been struggling for threes,” Alabama Senior Point Guard Sears said to CBS Sports. “So, I knew this was the the perfect example to let a few go in.”

Alabama cruises forward now into the tournament’s Elite 8.

It had been since 2011 that BYU had made it this far in the tournament when now-Olympian Jimmer Fredette was playing on the team.

Other Utah school that made it in and now are all out this year were the women of the University of Utah, who were eliminated by the women from Indiana, and the men of Utah State University taken out in round one by UCLA.