LA JOLLA, Calif. - Cal Poly Pomona came up a bit short against No. 4 UC San Diego, falling 76-62, in the championship game of the 2019-20 California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Men's Basketball Tournament Saturday night at the host Tritons' RIMAC Arena.

With its five-game win streak snapped, second-seeded Cal Poly Pomona drops to 23-7 overall, but the Broncos' 2019-20 campaign is certainly not done. Their body of work to this point will most assuredly be enough to warrant an at-large berth into the NCAA Division II Championship come Selection Sunday. The 64-team field will be unveiled live on NCAA.com at 7:30 p.m. PT tomorrow.

Top-seeded CCAA regular-season champion UC San Diego moves to 30-1 following a program-record 22nd-straight victory. The Tritons earn the CCAA's automatic NCAA bid, with CPP almost definitively headed back to La Jolla for a West Regional quarterfinal next Friday, March 13, with UC San Diego and RIMAC Arena favored to host.

Turnovers were easily a large part of the story on Saturday night, as CPP uncharacteristically committed 19 of them, one shy of its season high. The Tritons capitalized on them to the tune of 25 points, while turning the ball over just eight times themselves. UC San Diego also held a significant 30-10 advantage in bench scoring.

A close first half featured five lead changes and a pair of tie scores, with the turnovers (3-13) and points off turnovers (18-0) both in favor of the hosts. The Broncos had notched the contest's first four points on baskets by senior Nikhil Peters and junior BJ Standley. Other highlights for CPP included a three-point play via driving layup by senior William Christmas to give his team a 12-10 edge, a Standley three-pointer to level the score at 15-15, and triples by Standley and senior Riley Schaefer to cut the Broncos' deficit to three points at 26-23 and 29-26, respectively. The halftime margin finally settled on six, at 34-28.

Christmas opened the second period with another three-point play, but UC San Diego immediately answered with a three-pointer from CCAA Most Valuable Player Tyrell Roberts. After going off for a tournament-record 45 points on 10-of-12 shooting from three-point range in Friday's semifinal, the redshirt sophomore guard had been held to zero over the first 20 minutes by the fifth-best defense statistically in all of Division II. He then hit two more triples in short succession after that initial one, however, as the Tritons extended out to a double-digit bulge of 45-33 with 17:44 to go in the game.

Christmas ultimately scored the Broncos' first seven coming out of the locker room, and kept CPP in the contest, scoring again to make it a six-point game again at 50-44 and forcing a Triton timeout at 13:55.

That was as close as Cal Poly Pomona would get, though, as the margin grew back out to 13 by the 12:07 mark when reserve shooter Gabe Hadley drilled a three, and completed the big four-point play. The run was finally snapped at 11-0 when Peters hit a triple for 61-47.

Christmas ended the night with a game-high 16 points, adding seven rebounds, four assists and a steal. Peters and Standley added 12 points apiece, while Schaefer contributed five points and a game- and career-high 11 rebounds.

UC San Diego had five players score in double figures, led ironically after the tough start by Roberts (14), the Tournament MVP. He was backed by the likes of redshirt seniors Christian Oshita (13) and Chris Hansen (10), who each also had a team-best seven boards apiece.

Christmas and Standley were selected to the All-Tournament Team alongside Roberts, Oshita and Triton junior Marek Sullivan. Click here for Tournament Central.

Bronco Bits: For the eighth game in a row and eighth time this season, Cal Poly Pomona started the lineup of seniors William Christmas, Nikhil Peters, Riley Schaefer and Justin Young, alongside junior BJ Standley ... Peters and Schaefer are the lone Broncos who have started all 30 contests ... Over the first 30 games, Christmas has had at least a share of the team high in points 15 times, and game high 12 ... Peters scored in double figures for the third time this year and seventh in his career ... Schaefer rebounded in double digits a second time for this season and his career ... The Broncos are 13-5 outside of Pomona in 2019-20, including 10-4 in true road dates ... Cal Poly Pomona began the day Friday fifth in Division II in scoring defense (63.0) and sixth in field goal percentage defense (40.1), allowing marks Saturday of 76 and 46.3, respectively ... In their 16th CCAA Tournament appearance, including 13th straight since the event made its return for the 2007-08 season, the Broncos are 20-14 (.588) all-time in the tourney, with a pair of titles in 2012-13 and 2014-15 ... They are 0-5 in CCAA Tournament matchups with UC San Diego, including 0-4 in CCAA finals ... Head coach Greg Kamansky is 417-166 (.715) overall during his 20-year career and 19-11 (.633) in the CCAA Tournament, having never missed one ... It was another meeting against his alma mater for Kamansky, a 1988 UC San Diego graduate and one of the greatest players in program history as an NCAA Division III All-American as a senior in 1986-87 who left the school as its second-leading all-time scorer, and is now fourth, with 1588 career points.