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PROVO, Utah – Tyler Haws scored 37 points and broke Roland “The Cat” Minson’s school scoring record of 28 points in an National Invitational Tournament game to lead No. 3 seed BYU to a 90-79 win over No. 6 Washington in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night at the Marriott Center.

Minson’s effort came during BYU's run to the 1951 NIT title, its first of two NIT championships.

With 706 points on the season, Haws joins Jimmer Fredette, Danny Ainge, Michael Smith and Devin Durrant as the only Cougars to score at least 700 points in a single season. He is the only one to accomplish the feat during his sophomore season.

Brandon Davies and Matt Carlino just missed out on double-doubles with Davies scoring 22 points and grabbing nine rebounds to go along with two blocks while Carlino added 20 points, nine assists, seven boards and two steals.

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As a team, BYU shot 47.0 percent for the game and a blistering 58.3 percent in the second half while Washington shot 41.8 percent for the contest. The Cougars worked hard on the glass, outrebounding the Huskies 43-34. BYU's rebounding efforts helped spur a 12-2 advantage in fast break points.

BYU took a 4-0 lead but the Huskies responded to take a 9-6 edge in the first four minutes of play. Haws grabbed an offensive board and dished it to freshman Cory Calvert for the BYU’s first trey of the game to even the score at 9-9.

Calvert’s three was part of a 12-2 run that gave the Cougars a 18-11 lead at the 11:32 mark in the first half. Haws hit a 3-pointer of his own to cap the run.

Washington continued to battle as the Cougars cooled off, trimming BYU’s lead to 25-24 with 4:35 left until the break and retaking the lead with another trey to make it 27-25 on the next trip down the floor.

Both teams kept it close down the stretch of the first half and the Cougars trailed the Huskies 35-33 heading into the locker room. Shots behind the arc were a big factor with Washington draining 6 of 10 while BYU made just 2 of 12. The Cougars had the edge on the boards, outrebounding the Huskies 24-17 but also gave up nine turnovers.

Trailing 37-35 in the opening minutes of the second half, Davies knocked down a 3-pointer for the Cougars to retake the lead and sparked a back-and-forth start to the second half.

No team had a lead larger than three points over the first seven minutes until Haws’ made a short jumper inside the key and Brock Zylstra slammed home a pass off a Carlino steal to give BYU a 51-45 lead with 12:52 to go.

Carlino drilled a 3-pointer on the next possession and the Cougars continued to roll with a 13-2 run to push their lead to 58-47 with 11:07 to play.

Washington wasn’t going away easy as a 9-2 run put the Huskies right back in it, cutting BYU’s advantage to 60-56 over the next two minutes.

With the shot clock winding down and the Cougars’ lead down to three, Carlino had the answer with a long 3-pointer, followed by another dish to Davies on the next possession to push BYU’s lead to 71-63 with 6:06 remaining in the game.

Though Washington threatened with under two minutes to play and BYU up 82-75, Davies threw down a one-handed dunk to electrify the crowd and put the Huskies away for good en route to a 90-79 win.

Up next, BYU will host a second round game in the Marriott Center against the winner of No. 2 seed Tennessee and No. 7 seed Mercer. The date, time and broadcast information will be announced in the coming days.

Game notes: BYU vs. Washington in the NIT

No. 3 seed BYU will host No. 6 seed Washington in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. MDT. Tuesday's game will be televised on ESPN and broadcast on KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM.

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No. 3 seed BYU Cougars (21-11, 10-6 WCC)

• Head Coach: Dave Rose
• Alma Mater: Houston, 1983
• Division I Career Record: 206-65 (8th)
• Record at BYU: Same

No. 6 seed Washington (18-15, 9-9 WCC)

• Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
• Alma Mater: Cincinnati, 1992
• Division I Career Record: 330-216 (17th)
• Record at Washington: 237-128 (11th)

BYU in the NIT

• This will mark BYU’s 11th appearance in the NIT. The Cougars have a 12-8 record in the NIT, including titles in 1951 and 1966. 
• BYU has played in the NIT in the following years: 1951, 1953, 1954, 1966, 1982, 1986, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2013.
• BYU is 6-1 all-time in NIT games played in the Marriott Center with the only loss coming to Washington in 1982.
• BYU retired the jerseys of Mel Hutchins and Roland Minson on Feb. 16, 2013. Hutchins and Minson led the Cougars to the 1951 NIT title.

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Player and team notes

• Tyler Haws has scored 20-plus points 21 times this season, the most by a sophomore in a single season at BYU and the seventh-most in any season in program history.
• BYU won its 20th game with a 70-68 victory against Utah State, giving the Cougars eight-straight 20-win seasons, the longest such streak in program history. All eight seasons have come under Dave Rose, a program record for 20-win seasons by one coach. Stan Watts had seven 20-win seasons.
• Dave Rose earned his 200th career victory with a 74-57 win over San Diego on Jan. 19, 2013. Stan Watts is the only other coach in BYU history with 200-plus wins. Watts won his 200th game during his 12th season at the helm on Feb. 2, 1961, at New Mexico. It was his 329th career game (Watts’ career record was 371-254 in 23 seasons). Rose is in his eighth season and earned win number 200 in his 259th game.
• Tyler Haws reached 1,000 career points when he hit a jumper at the 15:30 mark in the second half at Saint Mary’s. He joins Danny Ainge as the only BYU players to reach 1,000 career points as sophomores and is the 45th Cougar to reach 1,000 points. Haws now has 1,066 points and is 42nd all-time in scoring at BYU.
• BYU has completed four comebacks after trailing at the half this season. The Cougars trailed Utah and San Francisco by nine at the half and won 61-58 and 80-76. BYU trailed Pepperdine by five at the half at home and came back to win 76-51. The Cougars trailed at Pepperdine 31-20 but bounced back in the second half to win 63-61.
• The Cougars have a chance to break team records in steals in a season and steals per game for a season. BYU has 272 steals in 32 games, good for 8.5 per game. The current records of 307 steals (36 games) and 8.5 steals per game were set during the 2009-10 season.
• Tyler Haws hit 14 of 14 from the free throw line at LMU on March 2, his fourth game this season shooting 100 percent from the line while attempting at least 10 free throws, a BYU single-season record. He had been tied with Russell Larson (1993-94) and Ken Roberts (1994-95) for most perfect days from the line (minimum of 10 attempts) in a single season at three. Haws has five such games in his career, also a BYU record, and one ahead of Jimmer Fredette. Danny Ainge, Lee Cummard, Larson and Roberts are tied for third on the career list with three.