If San DIego State and the Mountain West nab five bids to the NCAA Tournament, they will squeeze out other teams, like Texas, that have hopes.

The Aztecs (21-9) swept the regular-season series against Boise State (23-9), but couldn’t win a third time. And probably didn’t deserve to after an abysmal performance on the boards in their fifth game without 7-foot Magoon Gwath, the Mountain West Freshman of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.

There was no second-half magic this time around as the Boise State men’s basketball team fell to Colorado State, 69-56, Saturday afternoon in the Mountain West Tournament title game. The fifth-seeded Broncos (24-10) reached the finals at Thomas & Mack Center with consecutive come-from-behind victories over No.