BYU vs. Santa Clara Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. Santa Clara Game Story

BYU vs. Santa Clara Box Score

Player Notes

Tyler Haws

Haws scored 14 points and added 3 rebounds and 3 assists. He tied Devin Durrant for 4th on the career scoring list on a free throw and passed him with a jumper at 4:14 in the first half. Haws now has 2,289 career points. He also moved past Mark Bigelow for 15th on the career steals list with 117. His double figure scoring game was the 103rd of his career.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth tied his season high with 15 rebounds and added 8 points, 6 assists and 3 steals. His 4 offensive rebounds moved him into 14th place on the career offensive rebounds list with 175. He also moved into 11th in career steals passing Lee Cummard with 130 steals. On the career assist list, Collinsworth passed Jackson Emery and Scott Sinek for 15th. He now has 315 assists.

Chase Fischer

Fischer scored 14 points and added 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

Anson Winder

Winder finished with 8 points and 3 rebounds in his second start of the season.

Luke Worthington

Worthington finished with 4 points and 3 rebounds.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi fouled out with 4:04 left in the game. He tied a career-high with 6 rebounds and 2 blocks and added 4 points and a steal.

Isaac Neilson

Neilson finished with 1 point and 2 rebounds.

Skyler Halford

Halford finished with 8 points and an assist.

Dalton Nixon

Nixon totaled 4 points, 4 rebounds and an assist.

Jake Toolson

Toolson hit two 3-pointers to finish with 8 points, 2 assists, a rebound and a steal.

Frank Bartley IV

Bartley played 6 minutes and totaled 6 points, a block and a rebound.

Ryan Andrus

Andrus played for the first time since the game against Hawai'i and also scored for the first time since Southern Virginia on Nov. 19, 2014.

Jordan Ellis

Ellis played for the first time in three games.

Josh Sharp

Sharp played for the first time since the Utah game on Dec. 10, 2014.

Team Notes

For the second straight game, Collinsworth, Haws, Fischer, Winder and Worthington started. The Cougars are 2-0 with that starting five.

Haws and Fischer scored in double figures for BYU. Collinsworth added double figure rebounds. 

The Cougars outrebounded Santa Clara 45-28 and are now 11-0 when outrebounding opponents.

BYU improved to 8-1 when holding opponents under 80. It was the biggest margin of victory since the Chaminade game and the first time BYU held its opponent under 50 points since the Southern Virginia game.

Runs:

BYU went on a 12-1 run to begin the game which included an 8-0 spurt. Fischer scored 6 points, while Winder, Collinsworth and Worthington each added 2 points.

A 17-0 run gave BYU a 26-8 first half lead as Haws scored 8 points, Toolson added 5 and Nixon and Collinsworth each scored 2 points.

A 20-2 run gave BYU a 67-29 lead halfway through the second half. It started with a 10-0 run before a Brandon Clark layup. The Cougars then scored 10 more points for a 38-point advantage with 10 minutes left in the game. Halford scored 5 points along with Fischer, Collinsworth adding 4 apiece, Toolson 3 and Winder 3 points.

Quotes from Cougar IMG Sports Network postgame show

BYU head coach Dave Rose

"Our guys played so well. We'll remember this new year's. Not only were we on the road with a home crowd, but we were dialed in on the offensive end sharing the ball. On the defensive end, we were really good with our responsibilities especially with Clark and Brownridge. It just stayed that way with everyone we put in, even the group of guys who played the last four or five minutes."

Starting the game fast:

"You got Anson and Tyler in that starting lineup who have been around a while. Our captains Kyle and Chase, they know that needs to be better for us. We addressed it as a staff and the players really addressed it with how they shared the ball and attacked early in the game."

Clark and Brownridge:

"This time it's a little bit different becaue we decided to stay with the four-guard lineup. All the ball screens, we could switch them and we could switch to a denial or a contest and that stops that initial shot. I just thought that was an advantage for us. We didn't just want to let them roll to the basket and let them be free. We wanted it out of the hands of their shooters early to see how they reacted."

Chase Fischer

Big road win:

"We came in with a great mindset and that's attributed to a lot of veterans and older guys on our team. We wanted to come out and have a really, really good start and come out with a lot of urgency and I think we did. It shows we have a really, really mature team."

Back-to-back games:

"I'm really rounding into form and I feel good physically, my shot feels good. Coming back into college basketball, I'm trying to just not think as much, just kind of playing and reacting and not taking it too seriously."

"You have a lot of ups and downs in life and it's the same in basketball. You're not going to have a good game every game. I've just been enjoying the game and really playing hard. It's easy to play when you've got teammates like we do."

Four-guard lineup:

"I love the four-guards. I've always been a big fan of it since high scool, especially when you have a guy like Kyle who can rebound and Anson plays a lot bigger than he is. It makes the four man really have to guard and stretch the floor and gets a lot of shots for everyone. We're starting our four leading scorers. It's really tough to guard and hard to game plan for. I think we really do a good job defending and that's where we could be exposed on it but when we have to guard bigs, we've handled it well."