BYU vs. Cal State San Marcos: Notes & Quotes

Player Notes

Noah Hartsock was 5 of 5 from the field in the first half and finished the game 8 of 10 from the field, scoring a team and game high 20 points. The point total marks the 14^th double figure performance of the season and the 39^th overall.
Brandon Davies recorded his second double double of the season and sixth overall vs. CSSM (14 points, 13 rebounds). The points are his ninth double figure game of the year and the 35^th of his career while the 13 boards tied for season bests and were also team and game highs.
BYU freshman Matt Carlino scored in double figures for the fourth straight time tallying 19 points. He was 3 of 4 from 3-point range and perfect at the free throw line 4 for 4 while also grabbing two rebounds and getting three steals.

Team Notes

Head Coach Dave Rose went with the starting lineup of Matt Carlino, Brock Zylstra, Charles Abouo, Noah Hartsock and Brandon Davies for the third-straight game. This starting lineup has a 3-0 record to date.
BYU outrebounded CSSM 44 to 27 improving its record to 10-1 when getting more boards than its opponent.
The home Cougars scored 28 points off of the visiting Cougars’ miscues.
The final score was 79-51, which improved BYU’s record to 4-0 when putting in points in between 70 and 79 points in a game.
With the win over CSSM, BYU improved its win streak to three.
The home Cougars improved their record to 4-1 on the season when three players score in double figures. Hartsock (20), Carlino (19) and Davies (14).
BYU scored 46 points in the paint compared with 24 for CSSM. The 22-point margin is the most on the year.

Game Trends

BYU held CSSM without a field goal for the first four minutes of the game. The CSSM Cougars first field goal was a 3-pointer from Bryan Emanuel at the 16:14 mark.
The homestanding Cougars took a nine-point, 32-23 lead at the break after leading by as many as 16 points in the first half.
Noah Hartsock’ s first layup of the second half stopped a 5-0 run by CSSM.
In the second half BYU went on a 13-2 run to take a 58-40 lead with just over seven minutes left in the game. With 4:13 remaining, they extended their lead by 28, 72-44 and finished the game winning by 28, 79-51.

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BYU Head Coach Dave Rose

“I think that this was a really good game for us. I thought we were better defensively late in the shot clock, but I think the pace rushed us in the first half. We didn’t always make the plays in transition, but the second half we got out and pressured them a bit more and we got the game going the way we wanted it to go.”

“Our guys really look to getting the ball to our post players and they played well for us tonight.”

“We started really sharing the ball. Passing up a good shot for a better shot has kind of been our motto and it makes it a lot easier to do that when your guys are making their shots. You’ve got to have confidence in the next guy and once we got rolling the confidence built and we felt better about making that extra pass.”

BYU Player Quotes

Matt Carlino

“We were only up by a few points, but I felt like we should have been up by a lot more so I came in and pushed hard.”

“They battled early, but after awhile they fatigued and we kind of jumped on them after that.”

“Yes, I was in foul trouble and didn’t focus in as quick as I should have, but luckily our bigs were playing well.”

Brandon Davies

“I thought we were all playing together and getting open shots. We were making plays. We have a lot of confidence in our guys that we’ll get shots.”

“It’s all about effort. I just try and play hard and whatever happens happens, but as long as we play hard and give a good effort we try not to focus on individual points.”