RENO, Nev. — Utah State coach Stew Morrill doesn't have to worry anymore if his Aggies' 30-4 record is good enough to get them into the NCAA tournament.

The Aggies made sure they'd be in the field of 65 with a 72-62 win over Nevada in the Western Athletic Conference championship last night.

Gary Wilkinson scored 21 points and Jared Quayle and Tai Wesley each had double-doubles.

Quayle had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Wesley 14 points and 11 rebounds for the top-seeded Aggies, who held Nevada scoreless for the first 6 1/2 minutes and denied Wolf Pack scoring leader Luke Babbitt a field goal until 16:24 was left in the game.

The tournament title gave the WAC's regular season champs their sixth trip to the NCAA tournament in 10 years, but first since 2006.

"The one thing I told our guys coming into this tournament is that we had to treat this like the only way we were going to the NCAAs is if we won this," Morrill said. "Before we came here I kept hearing, "We're in, we're in." Then I heard we had to win one and we're in. Then I heard that we had to win in the semifinals to get in. Well, all I know is, we're in now."

Armon Johnson scored 17 of his 20 points in the second half while Babbitt, a freshman, finished with only eight points on 3-of-12 shooting for second-seeded Nevada (21-12), which made only two of its first 21 attempts from the field and shot 30 percent.

Nevada coach Mark Fox said Babbitt had an injured back.

"We got outplayed. It wasn't our night," said Fox, whose team watched five of its first six shots roll around the rim and off.

"We had a lot of little, easy looks at the basket that we did not finish. At one point it was 10-0 and it should have been 10-10. We just didn't finish," he said. "Fatigue, certainly, was probably a part of that. Being young physically was probably more of a factor."

WAC WOMEN

Fresno State 56, Nevada 49: Jaleesa Ross scored seven of her 22 points in the final 3 minutes when the the top-seeded Bulldogs (24-8) outscored the Wolf Pack (18-14), 9-2, the rest of the way to capture the Western Athletic Conference women's championship and clinch their second consecutive trip to the NCAAs.

Joh-Teena Filipe added 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Bulldogs, who shared the WAC's regular season title with Louisiana Tech. Shavon Moore had 10 points and eight rebounds for the Wolf Pack, who appeared in their first WAC title game ever and were bidding for their first trip to the NCAA tourney.

Fresno State outrebounded Nevada 51-34 and held Dellena Criner to only nine points after she averaged 23 points in the two previous WAC tourney games.