San Jose State used another quick start at the Mountain West men’s basketball tournament to put top-seeded New Mexico on its heels, but the No. 8 seed Spartans’ upset bid in the quarterfinal game fell short 63-52 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Thursday.

SJSU (15-19) opened the tournament barely 24 hours earlier by scoring the first 12 points in a first-round win over Wyoming. Thursday, the Spartans went on an 11-0 run to take a 21-16 lead with 7:29 left in the first half. But New Mexico (26-6), which suffered one of its three conference losses at San Jose State on a buzzer-beater in mid-January, responded with a 16-2 run to end the half with a nine-point advantage.

The Spartans got as close as 46-40 on Josh Uduje’s layup with 8:29 remaining, but the Lobos finally put the 14-point underdogs away with a 13-4 run.

Sadaidriene Hall led the Spartans with 13 points. Robert Vaihola recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 10 points and a team-best 11 rebounds. Uduje added 10 points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals.

San Jose State finishes the season with a 15-19 overall record and the most wins (45) over a three-year span since the team won 46 games from 1985-88 while a member of the Big West Conference.

MWC player of the year Donovan Dent led the Lobos with 25 points.

Flagg injures ankle >> Duke coach Jon Scheyer said it’s a “real longshot” that freshman star Cooper Flagg will be able to play in the ACC tournament semifinals because of an ankle sprain.

The 6-foot-9 Flagg rolled his left ankle in the first half of the top-ranked Blue Devils’ quarterfinal win against Georgia Tech on Thursday. He hobbled off the court before heading to the locker room, then returned to the bench for the second half but didn’t play again.

Scheyer said Flagg was already dealing with swelling and said he’d “have to be really convinced we should even consider seeing if he can go” in the semifinals on Friday night. Scheyer said X-rays showed no fracture for Flagg, named Tuesday as The Associated Press league player and newcomer of the year.

“It’s not about being ready to go tomorrow,” Scheyer said. “That’s not the most important thing for us. We’ve got to see if we can get him right for this run that we can make in the (NCAA) Tournament.

“But I would have to be really convinced that we should even consider seeing if he can go (Friday). He may not be able to go anyway. He probably won’t be able to go anyway. But I think it’s a real longshot, a real longshot.”

Flagg wasn’t available to speak with reporters afterward because he was receiving treatment for the injury, one of two significant hits the Blue Devils (29-3) took in the first half. The other was seeing versatile defensive forward Maliq Brown suffering another dislocation of his left shoulder, an injury he had only recently returned from after missing nearly three weeks of action.

NBA

Fox out for season >> San Antonio Spurs De’Aaron Fox will miss the rest of the season with a finger injury.

The Spurs said Fox will have surgery on Tuesday to repair a tendon on his left hand.

Fox was injured during training camp in October while he was still with the Sacramento Kings. He still averaged 23.5 points, 6.3 assists, and 4.8 rebounds in 62 games total this season. The Spurs acquired him on Feb. 3, and he averaged 19.7 points, 6.8 assists and 4.3 rebounds in 17 games for San Antonio.

Olympics

NBC signs up for more Games >> NBC will now be the champion of Olympic broadcasting in the United States through at least 2036.

The IOC said Thursday it signed its long-time United States broadcast partner to a $3 billion renewed deal for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2036 Summer Games.

NBC signed its most recent Olympic rights deal in 2014 covering each Summer Games and Winter Games through 2032. That was valued at $7.75 billion and includes the next Summer Games in 2028 in Los Angeles.

The broadcaster said its coverage from Paris reached 67 million total viewers on average daily.