BYU vs. San Diego Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. San Diego Game Story

BYU vs. San Diego Box Score

Player Notes

Tyler Haws

Haws finished with 20 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds. Haws was 10 of 11 from the free-throw line and 5 of 13 from the field. He set the BYU career mark for games started with 124 passing Randy Reid for the most by a Cougar.

The double figure game was the 109th of his career and the 20-point game was his 6th consecutive and the 65th of his career. He is now tied with Danny Ainge for second place in career 20-point games. Haws passed Kevin Foster for second place in career overall scoring in the West Coast Conference, only trailing Hank Gathers. Haws also passed Darrell Tucker and tied Quintin Dailey for 13th on the WCC only scoring list.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth scored 11 points in the second half and finished with 13 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists. 

Anson Winder

Winder returned to the starting lineup after missing two games with a sprained knee and finished with 9 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals and an assist.

Chase Fischer

Fischer finished with 6 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal.

Luke Worthington

Worthington finished with 4 points and 2 rebounds.

Skyler Halford

Halford finished with 12 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals. It was his third straight game scoring in double figures.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi totaled 2 points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks.

Dalton Nixon

Nixon was perfect from the field (4 of 4) and finished with 8 points, 3 rebounds and a steal before fouling out with 0.4 seconds left.

Team Notes

Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Winder and Worthington started for BYU. The Cougars are now 4-2 with those starting five.

Haws, Halford and Collinsworth scored in double figures, while Collinsworth led the Cougars in rebounds with 9 and Halford led BYU in assists with 4.

The Cougars matched their lowest shooting percentage from 3-point range on Saturday going 3 of 15 for 20 percent. BYU is now 4-3 when shooting less than 30 percent from behind the arc, including going 0-3 in WCC play when shooting below 30 percent.

Runs

BYU used a 12-3 run to retake the lead in the first half at 25-24 with 6 minutes left. Halford hit two 3-pointers, while Nixon added 4 points and Haws 2.

A 5-0 run extended the lead to 57-50 with 8 minutes left in the second half. Four points came from Winder, while Haws added a free throw.

A late 6-0 run put BYU within striking distance with under a minute left in the game at 71-70 after Haws made four straight free throws and Collinsworth added a layup with 36.6 seconds left.

Quotes from the Cougar IMG Sports Network

BYU head coach Dave Rose

Back-to-back losses and rebounding:

"It's a real issue for us. I wish it was as easy as let's just put some bigger guys up there, but it's a little more complicated than that."

"These games have become something that we've got to be better at figuring out how we're going to win when we're not hitting shots and we're not getting to the free-throw line. That's a real key to us being good. We've got to figure out a way to defend better. We were upside down three or four different times on communication issues. There are a lot of things we can see that we need to fix. They're all fixable we just need to deal with a little more urgency here."

Bye week:

"The bye week is always unsettling to me because the routine is different. Sometimes we come out of a bye week and play lights out too so, maybe with this group we evaluate how we handle the next one when it comes through."

Easy buckets near the rim:

"Those are all plays that we've gone over with the guys. They know them and know they're coming and we're focusing so much on trying not to let Dee go off and have a huge night that that emphasis probably is what caused some of the breakdowns. It's a miscommunication and it's a situation where we both end up going to one guy. These guys are smart. They're a real grind-it-out team and you have to kind of have a knockout punch to get them. We got to that point where we came up empty on two or three possessions and then they came back and shrunk that lead and it became a dogfight. We figured out a way to manufacture a way to get a chance to get it into overtime, but it didn't happen tonight."

Luke Worthington

"We've definitely had some really tough losses. This one, a lot like most of the others, was a really close game, came down to the wire and we couldn't make the plays to close it out unfortunately. We know it's not the plays at the end that win it, it's the plays throughout the game. Overall, we've got to play better."

Collinsworth's final shot:

"We all thought he had it. That's a play he makes all the time…That one just didn't bounce his way…It was a really tough play."

Play of BYU's big men:

"Definitely a little better. Collectively we were more than upset after the loss to Saint Mary's, so we kind of committed to each other and made some personal goals to come out here and be aggressive and play the way it's supposed to be played and contribute to our team." 

"I think we did play a little better, but we need to play even better."

"Loose balls and rebounds, that is kind of the same story it was at Saint Mary's. We have to go and track them down off the rim…It comes down to rebounds and it has been for a long time. Even our losses early in the season, those teams were great rebounding teams and that's why those games were dropped." 

Coach Rose's tone:

Overall not too chipper, not too happy. You know he realizes it's a long season. We've got another game and fortunately we don't have to wait an entire week to play this next one. We need to focus on the next one. Try to play the best we can. Fix the things that are wrong, because there were clearly some things that were very wrong in this one. Fix those things, play more aggressive and try our best to come get a win."