PHOENIX – There is something that has been bugging me since the media day prior to the Toppers second round game against San Diego. During coach Darrin Horn’s interview session at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla., a reporter from a local publication asked Horn how he feels now that senior guard Courtney Lee is getting so much publicity after being a “relative unknown” for most of his career.

Herald sports editor David Harten, reporter Andrew Robinson and photographer Daniel Houghton continue their coverage of this year’s NCAA tournament as they travel to Phoenix for Western shot at the Sweet Sixteen. The three are covering the men’s basketball team during the NCAA tournament.

PHOENIX – Senior guard Courtney Lee enters today’s game against top-seeded UCLA in the West regional semifinal just 19 points shy of breaking Jim McDaniels’ all-time career scoring record.

PHOENIX – Some of the Western players were drawing on a whiteboard in the locker room. It was pretty abstract what they were drawing, maybe something of an alien-like basketball player. Many fans and experts alike probably didn’t have the 12th-seeded Western drawn in at this point in their bracket.