BYU vs. Saint Mary's Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. Saint Mary’s Game Story

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Player Notes

Tyler Haws

Haws finished with 15 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists. The double-figure scoring game was the 114th of his career. He passes Jose Slaughter (Portland) on the WCC conference games scoring list for fourth all-time.

Kyle Collinsworth

Collinsworth totaled 17 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. His 3 assists tied him with Lee Cummard for 9th in career assists with 372. Collinsworth has grabbed 6 or more rebounds each of the past 7 games and in 13 of the past 14 for BYU. Collinsworth reached 1,000 points for his career with a basket with 13:01 remaining in the first half. He now has 1,013 career points.

Chase Fischer

Fischer scored 14 points including four 3-pointers, while he added 4 rebounds, 2 steals and an assist. Fischer passed Jimmer Fredette’s junior season for the sixth most 3-pointers made in a season with 80.

Josh Sharp

Sharp finished with 8 points, 6 rebounds, a career-high 5 assists and a steal.

Corbin Kaufusi

Kaufusi set a career-high with 4 blocks in addition to his 5 rebounds. The 4 blocks are the most by a Cougar this season. Kaufusi is now tied for 7th with Fred Roberts in blocks for a freshman with 23.

Skyler Halford

Halford totaled 17 points, 5 assists and 2 steals.

Ryan Andrus

Andrew finished with 2 points, 2 steals, a block and a rebound. He also took a charge in the first half.

Frank Bartley IV

Bartley had a season-high 9 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and a block.

Team Notes

Collinsworth, Fischer, Haws, Sharp and Kaufusi started for the second straight game. BYU is now 2-0 with that unit.

Fischer, Collinsworth, Haws and Halford scored in double figures for BYU. Collinsworth led BYU in rebounds with 9, while Sharp and Halford each dished out 5 assists. 

The Cougars were 9 of 19 from 3-point range, shooting 47.4 percent.

BYU out rebounded Saint Mary’s 37-26 and is now 16-0 when out rebounding its opponent.

BYU improved to 14-3 when holding its opponent under 80 points.

The Cougars had the most blocks in a game with 7 since they also blocked 7 shots against Purdue in the Maui Invitational. 

BYU now owns a four-game WCC home win streak.

Runs

BYU used an 8-1 run to take an 11-4 lead 4 minutes into the first half. Haws scored 4 points, Fischer 3 and Collinsworth 2 during the run.

The Cougars used two steals and an offensive rebound by Josh Sharp to go on an 7-0 run for an 18-8 lead with 13 minutes left in the first half. Halford made two layups off the steals and Fischer hit a 3-pointer.

Collinsworth scored 8 straight points for BYU and 6 of those started a 13-0 run which extended BYU’s lead to 33-14 with 7 minutes left in the first half. Collinsworth scored 8 points during the run, Fischer put in 3 and Sharp 2.

A 12-1 run to start the second half extended BYU’s lead to 54-31 over the first four minutes. Haws scored 5 points, Sharp 4 and Collinsworth 3.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

“I thought that was a great effort from our guys. I think we were dialed in on what we needed to do to be successful.” 

“Rebounding is such a huge deal for us. I think we gave them 17 offensive rebounds at their place and tonight they got nine. That's a big number for us. We out rebounded them and that momentum led to quite a few transition baskets.”

“I thought defensively we were really good. Corbin gave us some really good minutes protecting the rim. Josh Sharp has really given us a lift the last two games. I think we found a little part of ourselves that can help us down the road.”

“That was a great crowd and a good atmosphere, and I think our guys responded to it really well.”

Chase Fischer

“It's good for any shooter to hit a couple at the beginning and get the team going. My teammates were finding me and we knew their defense, and where the shots would come from and we took advantage of that.”

“We all looked around at each other at halftime knowing that our trend has been to get a lead and then kind of relax. We knew we had a lot of game left and a lot to prove. We just wanted to come out and just play hard.”

Josh Sharp

“It felt really good. I've been waiting my time. Everyone stepped up tonight and that made the difference in the game.”

“We talked a lot about rebounding. We got out rebounded by 10 or 15 last time we played them. We out rebounded them tonight by 10 or 11 and I think that's the difference.”

“We knew we had to get the 50-50 balls to win and that's where our mindset was.”

Saint Mary’s head coach Randy Bennett

“They played well and we didn’t. I could break it down area by area, but the bottom line is that we didn’t have enough players play well and they played pretty well.”

“They didn’t help off our shooters tonight when Brad got the ball they would bring help from the baseline. Across the board we didn’t play well, this is a tough place to play against a good team. You have to have some guys play A-games and we had a couple F-games.”