BYU vs. Harvard Notes & Quotes

BYU vs. Harvard Game Story

BYU vs. Harvard Box Score

Player Notes

Kyle Davis recorded his sixth double-double of the season with a season-high 23 points to go with 16 rebounds. It was his second-straight game scoring 20 points or more. Davis added an assist and a block.
Kyle Collinsworth finished with 23 points, 8 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals.
Collinsworth passed Dick Nemelka for 22nd all-time and surpassed 1,300 career points. He has scored 1,308 points. He also passed Marty Haws for fifth all-time in career assists and overtook teammate Nate Austin for second all-time in offensive rebounds.
Nick Emery was the other Cougar in double figure scoring as he totaled 13 points, 2 steals and a rebound before fouling out.
Zac Seljaas hit multiple 3-pointers for the third straight game as he scored 8 points before fouling out.
Jamal Aytes scored 6 points and added a rebound and an assist in his return to action for the first time since the Utah game on Dec. 2.

Team Notes

After being down by 16, a 9-0 run gave BYU a 29-28 lead with 30 seconds left in the first half. That is the biggest deficit from which BYU has come back to take a lead this season.
The 14 3-point attempts are the fewest so far this season and the 23.1 percent shooting from 3-point range is also the lowest of the season.
Starters, record (season/career starts): Fischer (10/43), Emery (5/5), Collinsworth (10/104), Davis (10/10), Kaufusi (10/23). The Cougars are 3-3 with that starting five.
BYU’s last overtime game came on Dec. 23 last year at home against UMass. The Cougars came away with a 77-71 victory.
With the overtime loss, BYU is now 16-16 all-time on the islands.

Quotes

BYU head coach Dave Rose

“It’s sad. We let these leads slip away both times, and its just a time for execution. In regulation, we turned it over and the last two times in overtime we turned it over. Those are times when you need big shots and big plays. Guys need to step up and make those shots and plays and we came up a play short tonight”

“Hopefully, we can put it behind us and get on to the next game. We were in this situation last year and our guys bounced back pretty good. So hopefully we can stay with that pattern.”

Slow start:

“We had a really hard time scoring and they scored on the first three possessions. It’s the same guys we watch on film and the report that we have. It seems to come to a tough spot. We have always been a good scoring team to start games and we’re having problems with that on the road. Hopefully we find an answer. The guys are determined and they really want to make this work.”

Kyle Davis

“It was a tough game in the sense that we couldn’t close it out. We just couldn’t make a play down the stretch to win it.”

“The only thing you can do is just move forward. These losses just sting. We have a couple this season that hurt.”

“He’s big and strong, makes good moves, very physical, powerful in the post, it was a battle there between us and best of luck to Harvard moving forward.”