BYU vs. LMU Notes & Quotes

Player Notes

Haws finished with 26 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. He was 7 of 7 from the free-throw line to pass Jimmer Fredette for the career mark in free throws made with 628. His double figure scoring game tied him with Fredette for second on the career list with 106. The 20-point game was the 62nd of his career and second straight. His 3-pointer tied him with Andy Toolson for 8th on the career 3-pointers made list with 141.

Haws moved up the career minutes played list passing Michael Smith for 6th. Haws has played 3,902 minutes in his career. Saturday's game was also Haws' 121st start in his career which tied him for third all-time with Ken Roberts.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth came up two assists shy of a triple-double with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. He also added 4 steals.

His four offensive rebounds moved him past Justin Weidauer, Charles Abouo and Rafael Araujo on the career list. Collinsworth now has 180 offensive rebounds. He also passed Steve Craig and Brian Taylor on the career assists list where Collinsworth is now 12th with 335 assists.

Anson Winder

Winder scored 15 points and added 5 assists, 3 rebounds, a steal and a block in his 30th career start.

Chase Fischer

Fischer hit 5 3-pointers to help him to 19 points. He contributed 4 assists, 3 rebounds, a block and a steal.

Luke Worthington

Worthington finished with 2 rebounds and an assist.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi grabbed 4 rebounds and added a block in his 21 minutes on the floor.

Skyler Halford

Halford scored 9 points on 3 of 6 shooting from behind the arc. He added 4 assists, 2 steals and a rebound.

Jake Toolson

Toolson finished with 3 points and a rebound.

Team Notes

Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Winder and Worthington started for BYU for the fifth straight game. The Cougars are now 4-1 with that starting five.

Fischer, Haws, Winder and Collinsworth scored in double figures, while Collinsworth reached double figures in rebounds and led the team in assists with 8.

BYU is now 10-2 when holding opponents under 80 points this season.

The Cougars assisted on 25 of their 28 field goals (89.3 percent) against LMU. That is the 7th best mark in BYU history.

BYU hit 13 3-pointers. It was the 7th game this season with double digit 3-pointers and the 6th game with 12 or more.

Runs:

The Cougars got out to a 10-0 lead to start the game. Haws scored 4 points, while Fischer and Winder each hit a 3-pointer.

A 6-0 run made it 23-11 with 13 minutes left in the first half as Haws hit a 3 from the corner and Fischer hit a 3 from the wing in transition.

A 13-0 run stretched the lead back to 63-49 with 9 minutes left in the second half. Winder scored 4 points on two layups, while Halford and Fischer each hit 3-pointers and Collinsworth hit a jumper and netted a free throw.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

"We shot the ball a little better and rebounded the ball a little better tonight. This is a really good offensive rebounding team. It was really tough at times, but we were able to get some clean rebounds."

"I was really pleased with the first 10-12 minutes of the game. We have had issues with our starts. We got off to a good start tonight."

"I'm pleased with the win and look forward to Monday at practice to improve on things and go out on the road again. It will be quite a road trip."

"Every game in this league is a dogfight. Our margin for error is so slim, so narrow. We need to be really good in every area of the game that we have an advantage in."

On team assisting on 25 of 28 shots:

"I think it really shows the way we play when we're playing well. That's something that we're going to have to continue to get better at. We do have an advantage from the perimeter with Anson at the four. Not many guys come all the way out. He's a guy that's really skilled. He can pass it, shoot it, dribble it. So in some ways that is an advantage for us."

Skyler Halford

"We were just confident tonight. I think we just got back to driving and kicking and finding the open man. If it wasn't the first guy passing out it was the next pass. When we can get in a groove like that where we find open guys, we get in a rhythm and shots go down easier."

"We respect those guys. They play hard. They kept coming at us. It was a good challenge, a good test for us."

"Night in and night out in this league, you're going to have a battle. You're going to need to be ready for every single game. You can't think that games are going to come easy at any point. Coach Rose has been preaching to us that we just need to stay focused on the game at hand."

Tyler Haws

"This league is a crazy league. Teams come in fighting no matter what their record is. That's a good team and they didn't have their best player tonight. But, we're trying to be consistent and trying to keep improving."

LMU head coach Mike Dunlap

Overall thoughts on the game:

"What a crowd. A lot of momentum shifts throughout the game. I thought we played with guts and moxie. I thought it was a heck of a game for both teams."

On BYU's 3-point shooting:

"They're so good at running and finding the open three. They've got four guys who can shoot it. It makes it hard. We were chasing that for a lot of the game, and were finally able to slow it down a little in the second half."

On Chase Fischer's game:

"They were able to find him and he could knock down shots. He's done that against more than one team. Several of those shots kept them out of reach."

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