BYU vs. Pacific Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. Pacific Game Story

BYU vs. Pacific Box Score

Player Notes

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth finished with a career-high 11 assists in his fourth triple-double of the season. He added 17 points and 11 rebounds, as well as 3 steals and 1 block. The triple-double tied Collinsworth for the most triple-doubles in a single season with Michael Anderson (Drexel), Brian Shaw (UC Santa Barbara), Jason Kidd (California) and Stephane Lasme (UMass). Collinsworth now has recorded half of all the triple-doubles in BYU history in a span of 12 games. 

Collinsworth passed Fred Roberts on the career assists list for 11th place and now has 346. He also tied Scott Sinek for 7th on the career steals list with 140. His 3 offensive rebounds moved him past Mekeli Wesley for 10th in career offensive rebounds with 183. Thursday was also Collinsworth's 4th double digit assist game of the season which is tied for the third most in a season with Mike May.

Tyler Haws

Haws totaled 26 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. It was his 122nd career game started which tied him for second at BYU with Jeff Chatman. He also passed Ken Roberts for the 5th most minutes played in BYU history with 3,937 minutes. Haws was 9 of 10 from the free-throw line. The 10 attempts passed Jimmer Fredette for second all-time in attempted free throws. Haws also passed Jimmer's second place spot for career double figure games. Haws has scored in double figures in 107 career games. His 20-point game tied Jimmer for third all-time with 63 20-point games. It was also Haws' fourth consecutive 20-point game. Haws passed Andy Toolson for 8th in career 3-pointers made with 142.

With 26 points, Haws moved into the top 20 in scoring in West Coast Conference games only. He passed Bob Florence, Kurt Rambis and Luther Philyaw and is tied with Jim Haderlein for 17th with 907 points in WCC games.

Chase Fischer

Fischer finished with 18 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist. He was 5 of 9 from 3-point range. Those 5 3-pointers give Fischer the 12th most 3-pointers in a season at BYU.

Skyler Halford

Halford totaled 15 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists. He scored in double figures for the first time since the Portland game and made his first start since Southern Virginia.

Luke Worthington

Worthington recorded 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal in 9 minutes due to foul trouble.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi finished with 2 points and 1 rebound to go with the four fouls that kept him in foul trouble.

Isaac Neilson

Neilson totaled 4 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block in 17 minutes.

Dalton Nixon

Nixon scored 4 points and added 3 rebounds and a block in 19 minutes on the floor.

Ryan Andrus

Andrus scored 5 points including his first career 3-pointer. Andrus' two field goals against Pacific equaled his total from his previous six games played this season.

Josh Sharp

Sharp finished with 2 points, 2 rebounds and a block.

Anson Winder

Winder didn't play in a game for the first time since the final game of the 2012-13 season in a 76-70 loss to Baylor. 

Team Notes

Halford, Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws and Worthington started for the first time as a group for BYU. The Cougars are now 1-0 with that starting five.

Collinsworth, Haws, Fischer and Halford scored in double figures for the Cougars, while Collinsworth led the team in assists and rebounds with 11 of each.

It was the 8th game this season where BYU has made 10 or more 3-pointers. The Cougars were 10 of 20 from behind the arc.

BYU is now 13-0 when out rebounding opponents this season. The Cougars are also 10-0 when scoring 90 points in a game this season.

BYU extended its road winning streak to 7 games and its WCC road win streak to 5.

Runs

BYU finished the first half on a 6-0 run thanks to layups from Andrus, Sharp and Collinsworth. The run put the Cougars up 43-34, their biggest lead to that point.

A 10-0 run halfway through second half brought the Cougar lead to 14 at 73-59 thanks to two 3-pointers from Fischer, a jumper from Haws and two free throws from Nixon. 

A 7-0 run pushed the lead up to 16 at 80-64 with 6 minutes left. The run included three free throws from Collinsworth along with a jumper and two free throws from Haws.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

"Tonight was pretty magical as far as watching guys come in and get an opportunity and respond in a positive way with that opportunity. When you have a surprise and a guy doesn't play, there are going to be opportunities for guys and that's how we presented it to the team. When we called upon them tonight they were just ready to go. Andrus had a big 3 and gets a nice bounce pass and lays it in and Sharp gets an offensive rebound and scores a bucket. Skyler was terrific from the get-go in his position starting for Anson. I'm just happy for our team that these guys could respond with a win here."

Kyle's triple-double:

"I don't think we're to the point where we're going to expect Kyle to get a triple-double every night. He knows that his role, especially right now when things are patchwork that he's got to have a great night and Tyler has to have a great night and Chase has to come along. Anson has been really, really consistent and Skyler stepped in there and did exactly what Anson has been doing for us, plus a little bit more."

"I don't think we can expect Kyle to get a triple-double, but he's going to have play helping our team all those ways for us to continue to win."

Skyler in starting lineup:

"I want to keep that flow of the rotation going. We took Anson out of that sixth man role and now we've taken Skyler out of that sixth man role, but so far we're getting good play from a lot of guys especially tonight."

Kyle Collinsworth

"This was a huge game for us. We lost here last year and I knew I had to give it my all down the stretch and get us a lead."

Playing without Anson:

"He's such a mismatch nightmare. They usually have a big guy guarding him and he can get to the rim easy. We missed that a little bit. Props to our teammates. We had some big guys step up, like Ryan Andrus and some other guys and we finished the game well."

Knowing if you're on pace for a triple-double:

"It's always hard to tell. Assists, rebounds, you don't know, then all of a sudden people are freaking out saying 'One more, one more, keep going, keep going, keep going.' I never know. I just try to play my game and when I'm on the floor just play hard. Credit to my teammates they hit shots and spread the floor and it's easy to find them."