San Diego State knocks off New Mexico

Dairese Gary missed a runner in the final second and San Diego State escaped with a 72-69 upset of eighth-ranked New Mexico in the Mountain West semifinals last night in Las Vegas.

The Lobos (29-4) saw their 15-game winning streak snapped.

The Aztecs (24-8) will play BYU or UNLV for the conference championship tonight.

In other league tournaments:

* Big Ten: At Indianapolis, Evan Turner drained a 37-footer at the buzzer to give No. 5 Ohio State (25-7) a 69-68 win over Michigan in the quarterfinals. The Buckeyes will play Illinois (19-13), which beat No. 13 Wisconsin, 58-54 . . . No. 6 Purdue (27-4) beat Northwestern, 69-61 . . . Minnesota got 17 points from Devoe Joseph and upset No. 11 Michigan State, 72-67.

* Patriot: At Lehigh, C.J. McCollum scored 20 points to lead the Mountain Hawks (22-10) to the title, winning 74-59, over Lafayette (19-13), which got 16 points and 10 rebounds from Ryan Willen.

* Big East: At New York, Greg Monroe had 23 points and 13 rebounds, and No. 22 Georgetown (23-9) routed Marquette, 80-57, in the semifinals . . . Da'Sean Butler scored 24 points to lead seventh-ranked West Virginia (26-6), 53-51, over Notre Dame.

* SEC: At Nashville, Tenn., John Wall had 23 points and No. 2 Kentucky (30-2) beat Alabama, 73-67, in the quarterfinals . . . Wayne Chism had 16 points and 15 rebounds and No. 15 Tennessee (25-7) beat Mississippi, 76-65 . . . Mississippi State (22-9) beat Florida, 75-69 . . . John Jenkins' 25 points led No. 20 Vanderbilt (24-7) over Georgia, 78-66.

* Big 12: At Kansas City, Sherron Collins' 26 points led No. 1 Kansas (31-2) past No. 23 Texas A & M, 79-66, in the semifinals . . . No. 9 Kansas State (26-6) beat Baylor, 82-75.

* ACC: At Greensboro, N.C., Iman Shumpert scored 14 points and led Georgia Tech (21-11) past No. 19 Maryland, 69-64, in the quarterfinals. Greivis Vasquez had 17 points for the Terrapins (23-8) . . . Freshman Scott Wood scored 18 points on six three-pointers to help North Carolina State (19-14) beat Florida State, 58-52 . . . Durand Scott's 17 points led Miami (20-12) past Virginia Tech, 70-65 . . . Kyle Singler had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 4 Duke (27-5) downed Virginia, 57-46.

* Conference USA: At Tulsa, Okla., Randy Culpepper scored 21 points and Arnett Moultrie added 18 to lead No. 25 UTEP to a 75-61 victory over Tulsa in the semifinals . . . Aubrey Coleman had 27 points and Houston (18-15) held off Southern Miss, 74-66.

* WAC: At Reno, Nev., Jared Quayle's 16 points led Utah State (27-6) into the final with an 85-55 win over Louisiana Tech. The Aggies will play tonight against Nevada or New Mexico State.

* Pac-10: At Los Angeles, Jerome Randle's 24 points led California over UCLA, 85-72, in the semifinals. The Golden Bears (23-9) will play tonight's title game against Washington or Stanford.

* SWAC: At Bossier City, La., Allen Smith stole an inbounds pass and Terrance Calvin hit a jumper with 1 second left to lift second-seeded Arkansas-Pine Bluff (16-15) to a 46-44 victory over Alabama State in the semifinals . . . Junior Treasure scored 21 points to lift Texas Southern (17-15) over Grambling State, 60-57.

* MAC: At Cleveland, Chris McKnight scored on a putback with 6.8 seconds left and Akron (24-9) held off Western Michigan, 66-64, to advance to the final against Ohio (20-14), which got 28 points from Armon Bassett in a 54-42 win over Miami (Ohio).

* MEAC: At Winston-Salem, N.C., Jason Flagler had 19 points to lead South Carolina State (18-13) over Delaware State, 70-66, in overtime in the semifinals . . . Morgan State (26-9) defeated Hampton, 74-67.

* Big West: At Anaheim, Calif., James Powell scored 22 points to lead UC Santa Barbara (19-9) to a 76-62 victory over UC Davis in the semifinals. Pacific faced Long Beach State in the other semifinal.

* Great West: At Orem, Utah, Tyler Cain had 16 points and 17 rebounds to lead South Dakota (21-9) to a 76-71 victory over Texas-Pan American in the semifinals. The conference does not receive an automatic NCAA bid . . . Andrew Gonzalez' 24 points led Houston Baptist (12-20) past NJIT, 74-64.

In women's league tournaments:

* Conference USA: At Tulsa, Okla., Chassity Brown, Brett Benzio and Olivia Grayson each scored 11 points and Benzio added 17 rebounds as Tulane (26-6) clinched the title with a 62-54 win over UAB.

* Big 12: At Kansas City, Mo., Andrea Riley scored 43 points and No. 20 Oklahoma State (23-9) upset No. 14 Iowa State, 62-59 in the quarterfinals . . . No. 11 Texas A & M (23-7) beat No. 15 Texas, 77-64 . . . No. 3 Nebraska (30-0) beat Kansas State, 63-46.

* Pac-10: At Los Angeles, Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored 25 points and No. 2 Stanford (29-1) beat Arizona State, 72-52, in the quarterfinals.

* Syracuse center Arinze Onuaku has a right quadriceps injury, suffered in Thursday's loss to Georgetown, but could return to practice by Monday and be ready to play in the NCAA Tournament.

* Greg Graham was fired as coach of Boise State a day after the Broncos were trounced by Utah State, 84-60, in the first round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament to finish 15-17 this season.

* Auburn fired coach Jeff Lebo after 6 years, five of them losing seasons, including 15-17 this season.

* Iowa State junior Craig Brackins will skip his final year of eligibility and enter the NBA draft. *