BYU vs. LMU Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. LMU Game Story

BYU vs. LMU Box Score

Player Notes

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth set the NCAA season record for triple-doubles with his fifth of the year on 23 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 3 steals. He is also now second for career triple-doubles with 5, trailing Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Anderson by one. 

Collinsworth tied his career high and set a season high with 23 points. His 14 points before halftime was the most he scored in a first half this season. His 10-assist game is the fifth of the season which is tied for the second most in a season at BYU with Nathan Call. Collinsworth's 6 offensive rebounds moved him past Noah Hartsock for 9th on the career offensive rebound list with 196. 

Tyler Haws

Haws finished with 22 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal. Haws was perfect from the free-throw line going 6 of 6. His 32 minutes played moved him past Jimmer Fredette for second in career minutes played at 4,140. Haws trails Danny Ainge at 4,259 minutes. Haws moved past Lee Cummard for 12th on the career steals list at BYU with 130.

The double figure game was his 113th career and his 20-point game was his BYU record 69th and his 10th straight, which is the 6th longest streak in BYU history.

Haws passed Bill Cartwright for 5th in WCC scoring in all games and passed Jim McPhee for 5th in WCC scoring in conference games.

Chase Fischer

Fischer returned after missing Thursday's game and contributed 7 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.

Josh Sharp

Sharp started his first game of the season and played a season-high 28 minutes. He finished with 2 points, a season-high 7 rebounds and tied his career high in assists with 3. His 2 steals also tied his season high.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi finished with 6 rebounds (tying his career high), a career-high 3 blocks and 2 points.

Skyler Halford

Halford totaled 18 points, 2 assists, 1 rebound and 1 steal.

Isaac Neilson

Neilson scored 4 points and added 3 rebounds in 8 minutes on the floor.

Frank Bartley IV

Bartley had 3 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist. He set his season high in free throws attempted at 5 and tied his season high in free throws made with 3.

Team Notes

Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Sharp and Kaufusi started for BYU. It was the first time this group started this season and it was the first start for Sharp this year, as well. The Cougars have used six unique starting lineups in the past seven games.

Collinsworth, Haws and Halford scored in double figures, while Collinsworth led BYU in rebounding and assists with 12 and 10.

BYU is now 15-0 when out rebounding opponents and 13-3 when holding their opponent below 80 points.

The win is BYU head coach Dave Rose's 250th career win. He is second behind Stan Watts in wins at BYU.

Runs

A 6-0 run made it 17-16 for BYU with 9 minutes left in the first half. Halford hit a 3-pointer and Collinsworth added 3 points on an and-1. 

A 9-0 run made it 36-25 with one minute left in the first half as Fischer scored 4 points, Collinsworth scored 3 and Winder put in 2 over a four-minute stretch.

Quotes from the Cougar IMG Sports Network

BYU head coach Dave Rose

Kyle's NCAA record for triple-doubles:

"He was special tonight. It was from the very tip, the very first possession, he was determined to give the effort we all needed in this game."

Pepperdine:

"It was a long couple days after that Pepperdine game because we played well enough to win that game in the first half and allowed them to move us around and do the things they wanted to do in the second half. We played with them and ended up getting beat. 

"It's not often you get a chance to redo something that just happened. We were in the exact same spot up 10 or 11 at half, we're coming out and we talked about what we were going to do and they end up with 8 points in the first three possessions. We called timeout and somehow the guys got together and got it figured it out because we started to get stops and started to make it a real competitive game in the second half. At the end, we were really good and got the score up to where we could win it."

Timeout three possessions in to second half:

"I saw some real determined guys in that group. Sometimes you're talking about rebounds and the most determined guy is the smallest guy. Skyler is in there trying to get everyone motivated to go. I just liked the team effort tonight." 

Sharp's performance:

"You make this adjustment in the starting lineup and we're trying to depend so much on these younger guys and we just felt like tonight we needed these seniors and they needed to do this. It's a really important game for us. Josh is the ultimate teammate. He plays the same everyday and the matchup was good to start the game, so we gave him a chance. He ended up with 7 rebounds and 3 assists in 28 minutes. 

"You get the big performances from Kyle, Skyler and Tyler offensively, but that performance from Josh will be one I will remember for a long time."

Skyler's consistency:

"We've got him right about the right amount of minutes because he plays so hard he's not a 35-40 minute a night guy. He really picked us up tonight with some big threes on a night when they were difficult to come by. Without his effort, floor presence and energy this would have been tough."

"Kyle has an unbelievable game that sets a record. That is absolutely amazing. But I hope we're not to the point where that's how he needs to play in order for us to be successful. I love that he's on it, he's doing it, but hopefully we can grow a little bit and we need to take those types of efforts and use them to continue winning."

Josh Sharp

When did you know you'd be starting:

"During practice yesterday I started taking some reps with that first group. They were trying to work around how they were going to work me in."

Getting back up to speed:

"It has been a while this season, but it felt good and I was just trying to go in and help any way I could."

Rebounding:

"As a group we've been talking about it a long time, especially on the defensive end and not giving them extra opportunities. It has been a focus for a while. Especially going into this game it was one of our main points and it's good to see that we were able to do that and we'll have to keep doing it going forward."

Thursday:

"It wasn't time to freak out, but when you get knocked down you have to get back up. As a team, we realized that and that's going to go for our whole season. We want to finish this thing strong and see where we can end up and what we can do."

Learned about team:

"We're all competitors and we're going to fight even if it's a harder track and there's less room for error. We're going to do everything we can to get where we want to go."

Key home stretch:

"Today is a day we've got to to build on and each game we have to get better, even though its the end of the season we still have to improve and build upon what we did today."