Box Score: No. 24 Cal Poly Pomona 71, Coyotes 43

POMONA -- The Coyotes' first trip to the NCAA Tournament in three seasons ended Friday night in an all-too familiar venue with an all-too familiar foe stepping up.

Top seed and 23rd-ranked Cal Poly Pomona grabbed the lead from the outset and led by its All-American guard Reyana Colson earned a 71-43 victory in the final game of the opening round of the NCAA West Region Tournament at Kellogg Gym.

Colson finished with a game-high 21 points with 18 arriving in the first half as the Coyotes trailed by as many as 30 and finished its season 21-8.

"It was a tough night all the way around,'' said Coyotes head coach Kevin Becker. "We got down early and dug ourselves a pretty big hole that we couldn't get out of.

"We played tough here early in the season and won at our place, but tonight was tough.''

Not since losing to eventual NCAA champion Cal Poly Pomona, 86-44, in 2002 had the Coyotes lost by such a large margin.

Senior Eisha Sheppard led the Coyotes with 18 points, but no one else scored more than eight points. The Coyotes were held to 0-of-13 from the 3-point stripe and finished the night with a season-low 26.2 percent shooting, hitting 17 of 65 shots.

In CSUSB's 83-70 victory over the Broncos on Feb. 24, the Coyotes' Sabrina Gonzalez and Amber Glasser each scored at least 20 points, but the duo was stopped on this night. Gonzalez had eight points and was 0 of 5 from 3-point land and Glasser was just 1 of 9 shooting and missed on five 3-point attempts.

CPP finished 28 of 50 and became just the second team all season to shoot more than 50 percent from the floor against the Coyotes. The Broncos, now 26-4, finished at 56 percent.

CPP will now advance to the semifinal round against Alaska Anchorage, which defeated Western Washington. Tipoff is 7 p.m.

The semifinal round will begin with second-seed Grand Canyon and third-seed Cal State Monterey Bay at 5 p.m.