BYU vs. San Francisco Notes & Quotes

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Player Notes

Tyler Haws

Haws finished two points shy of tying Danny Ainge for second place on BYU's career scoring list as he went for 28 points and was 9 of 10 from the free-throw line. Haws added 4 rebounds, 3 steals and an assist.

Going 9 of 10 from the charity stripe gave Haws the career West Coast Conference overall reord for free throw attempts passing Hank Gathers and the WCC only career record for free throws made passing Rick Adelman and Steve Ebey.

His 3 steals moved him past Matt Montague for 13th on BYU's career steals list. The double figure game was the 110th of his career, while the 20-point game was his 7th consecutive and 66th career, one shy of Michael Smith's record 67.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth finished with 8 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals. His 6 assists moved him into 10th on the career list with 358 passing Austin Ainge. His 2 steals moved him past Scott Sinek on the career steals list for 7th with 142.

Chase Fischer

Fischer totaled 6 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds and a steal.

Anson Winder

Winder scored 11 points, grabbed 4 rebounds and 2 steals. He was 5 of 8 from the free-throw line.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi totaled 5 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks before he fouled out with 7:30 left in the second half. Thursday was his first start of the season.

Skyler Halford

Halford finished with 8 points, 2 assists and a rebound.

Dalton Nixon

Nixon pulled down 3 rebounds and made 2 assists.

Jake Toolson

Toolson finished with 2 points and 2 rebounds in 6 minutes.

Isaac Neilson

Neilson didn't enter the game until the second half, but finished with 4 points and 2 rebounds and a drew a charge late in the game.

Team Notes

Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Winder and Kaufusi started for the first time together this season.

Haws and Winder scored in double figures for BYU, while Collinsworth led the team with 6 assists and 6 rebounds. 

For the second straight game, BYU hit three 3-pointers, one-third of their season average.

BYU is now 11-3 when holding its opponents under 80 points.

Runs

BYU used an 8-0 run to take a 12-8 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half. Haws scored 6 points and Kaufusi added 2.

A 6-0 run made it 32-24 with 1 minute left in the half as Fischer made a 3-pointer, Winder scored a bucket and Haws added a free throw. 

Another 6-0 run put the Cougars up 52-45 with 12 minutes left as Haws, Halford and Collinsworth each chipped in 2 points.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

“I’m pleased with the response of our guys. I thought we played with a lot of urgency tonight and a lot of emotion in a game that was really tough because we didn’t have a lot of things going right for us. We were good defensively and turned them over, but we were having a hard time getting shots, especially 3-pointers. I told the guys that we found another way to win it, and we’ll take it and move on.”

On tonight’s rotation:

“I think they all committed pretty well in practice to all help where we’re all trying to play a little different than we’ve played in the past, and trying to give other guys some minutes to limit the minutes of the starters. We’re in the end of January and we’re still a work in progress trying to find ourselves.”

On being in the front in a close game:

“I think it was all pretty precarious in the second half. You never get over that seven-point lead and had good looks three or four times and missed them all. We found other ways to do it and that’s a good thing.”

Tyler Haws

On grinding it out:

“Seems like we had a few of those games going the other way. It’s nice when we’re not shooting the ball well and we get a grind-it-out win like that. I’m proud of all our guys for fighting to the end and Anson had some huge shots at the end to help us.”

On the chance to pass Danny Ainge:

“It’ll be fun. Danny was a great player and it’s just an honor to have my name up there with those guys, but I have to give all the credit to my teammates. I just want to get a win.”

On four-guard offense:

“I definitely think they change up their lineup and they’re adjusting to what we’re doing. That’s what we want. We want them to adjust to our style. I thought we played on attack for the most part, but when we can play at our style and pace, we can be pretty good.”

Anson Winder

On free throws at the end:

“Relax and focus on making the first shot and hopefully making the second. We’ve been in these situations before, and to be on top of it is a good feeling.”

On forcing turnovers:

“We wanted to be more aggressive, and we wanted to get up the line to pressure a little bit. It worked out well for us, because we don’t usually cause this many turnovers."

San Francisco head coach Rex Walters

"We just came up short. We need to make a few plays here and there. I thought BYU played hard. They’re a good team. We just didn’t do enough to get it done."

"Our job was to try as much as we could to stay in our rotations, that was the biggest thing. I thought the first game they had us on skates. They played really fast, but I think we did a much better job of obviously getting matched up. We did some things defensively to try to keep them off balance. I thought we did a good job of that. I thought they hurt us on the glass. I thought they got to the free-throw line an awful lot. Honestly, that hurt us. Some might think there might be some discrepancies in how the game was called. I haven’t watched the tape. I’ll have to watch the tape to see."