BYU vs. Saint Mary's Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. Saint Mary's Game Story

BYU vs. Saint Mary's Box Score

Player Notes

Tyler Haws

Haws finished with 28 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. He became the third Cougar to pass 2,400 career points and did it in his 125th game, which is 10 games slower than Danny Ainge and 9 quicker than Jimmer Fredette. The double figure game was his 108th career and his 64th career 20-point game, which passes Fredette for third all-time. It was also his 5th consecutive 20-point game. Haws tied Matt Montague for 13th in career steals with 124. Haws passed Devin Durrant for 4th in career minutes played and now has 3,973 minutes played. He also moved into 15th on the West Coast Conference only scoring list with 935 points passing Jim Haderlein, William Averitt and Edgar jones.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth totaled 10 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists after running into foul trouble early in the second half.

Chase Fischer

Fischer scored 19 points and was 5 of 12 from 3-point range. He added 5 rebounds and 2 assists. It was Fischer's 5th game of the season with 5 3-pointers made which is tied for the third most in a season. It was also his third straight game with 5 3-pointers. He has also made 3-pointers in 18 consecutive games. His 5 3-pointers moved him into 9th place for 3-pointers made in a season, passing Mark Bigelow, Terrell Lyday and Danny Bower.

Skyler Halford

Halford scored 12 points and added 2 rebounds, an assist and steal.

Luke Worthington

Worthington started and played 17 minutes.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi scored 2 points and added a rebound, block and steal.

Dalton Nixon

Nixon totaled 4 rebounds, 3 points and 2 assists in a season high 31 minutes.

Jake Toolson

Toolson finished with 3 points and a rebound in 8 minutes on the floor.

Team Notes

For the second straight game, Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Halford and Worthington started for BYU. The Cougars are now 1-1 with that starting five.

Haws, Fischer, Collinsworth and Halford scored in double figures for BYU, while Haws and Collinsworth tied for the team lead in rebounds with 6 and assists with 3.

BYU is now 2-5 when their opponent grabs more rebounds.

It was the 9th game of double-digit 3-pointers this season for the Cougars.

BYU's 7-game road win streak and 5-game WCC road win streak were snapped on Saturday night.

Runs

A 7-0 run gave BYU an early 9-7 lead with 15 lead minutes left in the first half  thanks to 5 points from Fischer and a layup from Collinsworth.

An 11-0 run gave BYU a 31-25 lead with 5 minutes left in the first half thanks to 6 points from Haws, 3 points from Fischer and 2 from Collinsworth. 

A 9-2 run closed BYU's deficit to 75-72 with 2 minutes left in the game. Haws scored 6 points and Fischer added a big 3-pointer to make it a one possession game.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

Had a shot at the end:

"We battled. We just weren't good enough. We went through quite a few stretches where we were not effective enough. They were really, really good around the rim most of the night as far as rebounding the ball." 

Saint Mary's finish to the first half:

"It started on the offensive end and it ended up a defensive problem. We had three wide open looks and they all came off and didn't score for us. Then we begged the kid to shoot the first one and he made it. The second one, we were slow and then (Naar) hit another one. Those are things you can recover from, but they put you in a hole and it makes you work that much harder."

"There are times when we just fell apart. That is really uncharacteristic of our team. These guys found themselves and we had a point where we got it down to a possession game. We needed to make a big play and Waldow found the right guy."

SMC's rebounding:

"You know the challenge, this team is built on rebounding...It's what they do. It's what they're good at and we weren't good enough tonight to break it up."

Skyler Halford

Tough loss:

"We really wanted this one, it's tough to win on the road especially saint marts, they play great here its a great env we just didn't come out on top, saint marts played a great game and we just couldn't capitalize enough to counteract what they were doing."

Halford's Shooting:

"I feel confident, I'm just trying to stay confident in myself nd my teammates, when your number is allied and your the guy with the open shot you've got to knock it down and i'm just trying to do that."

SMC's run before the half:

"They went on a little bit of a run. We had a couple mental lapses as a team and they made some plays and we went into the half down eight. We came back in the second half we just didn't have enough."

What needs to happen to achieve team's goals:

"We've just got to keep improving. Everyday we've got to stay positive. We can't give up. We can't let down. We've just got to get better. We're right there and I have total and complete confidence in this team that we can make some great things happen this year and I don't doubt that we will."