From: jsnow@moons.sim.es.com (John Snow)
Subject: BYU Report: BYU vs. Weber State
Keywords: BYU basketball
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:55:56 GMT

BYU Basketball Report: BYU vs. Weber State

BYU traveled to Ogden Tuesday night to take on the Wildcats of Weber
State. BYU has beaten Weber State about half the time they play in
Ogden. Weber has never beaten BYU in Provo.

BYU started the game with Trost at center, Reid and Sanderson (last
week's WAC player of the week) at guards, and Knight and Miller at
forwards. 

Weber State scored the first 8 points in this game as BYU came out
shooting very poorly - and they were layins that BYU was missing. BYU
finally scored and moved to within a bucket at 8-6 but then fell back
to 17-11 at the first time out. BYU finally evened the score at 21 and
took a 3 point lead at 26-23 but Weber then scored 10 straight points.
The score was 40-33 at the half in favor of Weber.

Both teams shot 39% in the first half. The big difference was rebounds
with the shorter Weber State team out rebounding BYU 26-17 in the
first half.

BYU fell futher behind at the start of the second half as Weber
stretched out to a 49-37 lead in the first four minutes of the half.
Coach Reid inserted seldom used guard Kurt Christensen to try and find
someone to spark the lethargic Cougars. Christensen responded with a
frantic couple of minutes in which he stole the ball twice, took a
charge, took an illegal pick, and was called himself for charging.
During this period, BYU pulled close to Weber then went ahead on a
Sanderson caused steal resulting in a Sanderson 3-point bucket. This
culminated a 13-0 run for the Cougars.

From that point, the score ping-ponged back and forth with the teams
trading 1 point leads. In the last two minutes, BYU's Trost missed
critical free throws and BYU started to lag behind. With less than 20
seconds remaining, BYU trailed by 2 points. Sanderson was called for
travelling on a 3-point attempt that would have given BYU the lead.
Replay showed no indication that Nick travelled.

BYU fouled immediately on the inbound with 7 seconds left. Coleman
stepped to the line a made one of two. Sanderson then hit a 3 to tie
the game and send it to overtime.

Weber scored the first 4 points in overtime and Trost and Miller
teamed up to miss 7 straight free throws in the overtime period which
was interrupted for 5 minutes due to a clock problem. The Cougars
simply couldn't recover from the missed free throws. Sanderson gave it
his best attempt but was again called for travelling on a 3 point
attempt and again the reply showed no sign of a travel. BYU finally
fell to a 83-77 loss.

BYU shot poorly in this game, especially from the foul line. The
missed free throws are what ultimately cost BYU the game, but the
Cougars also missed many, many layins early in the game that certainly
would have made a big difference in the early going.

Weber played a very agressive defense, pressing BYU's guards
constantly in a full court defense. The officials didn't help much as
the Wildcat guards constantly bumped, reached, and hacked at BYU's
guards as they tried to move the ball up court. But as soon as a
Cougar guard would put out an arm to fend off the attack, the
officials would blow a whistle. It was a very frustrating experience
for the young Cougar guard line.

BYU's big guys really had problems with their inside shots and with
the shorter Wildcats out jumping them for the rebounds.

Weber did an excellant job defending Nick Sanderson as they played a
box and one on Sanderson for much of the game.

GAME SUMMARY

BYU		FG	FT	R	A	PF	TP
Christensen	1-1	5-6	0	3	4	7
Sanderson	4-10	0-0	2	3	3	10
Larson		6-8	4-5	5	2	5	16
Reid		0-2	4-4	1	2	3	4
Cuff		0-2	0-1	2	2	2	0
Durrant		0-4	0-0	1	0	2	0
Trost		8-15	3-9	9	2	1	19
Astle		0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0
Knight		2-3	1-2	2	0	0	5
Woods		0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0
Miller		7-13	2-4	11	3	3	16
TOTALS		28-59	19-31	33	17	23	77

Weber State	FG	FT	R	A	PF	TP
Miller		0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0
Sivulich	1-3	0-0	0	6	2	2
Kaps		0-1	1-2	1	0	1	1
Kaiser		6-9	1-2	4	3	3	17
Hamilton	7-22	7-8	13	2	1	21
Rose		11-17	9-12	6	0	5	31
Coleman		0-3	1-2	1	2	4	1
Lentfer		0-2	2-2	4	0	5	2
Moore		4-7	0-0	11	2	2	8
Mendelsn	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	0
TOTALS		29-65	21-28	41	15	25	83

Halftime - Weber State 40, BYU 33. Regulation 69-69.

Shooting percentages - Field Goals: BYU 47.5, Weber State 44.6; Free
throws: BYU 61.3, Weber State 75.0.

Three-point shooting: BYU 2-8 (Sanderson 2-6, Cuff 0-1, Durrant 0-1);
Weber State 4-8 (Kaiser 4-5, Hamilton 0-1, Miller 0-1, Sivulich 0-1).

Steals - BYU 9 (Christensen 2, Sanderson 2, Larson 2, Reid 2), Weber
State 12 (Sivulich 4).

Blocks - BYU 3 (Larson 2), Weber State 3 (Hamilton, Rose, Coleman).

Attendance - 6,494.

NEXT

BYU hosts the Cougar Classic Friday and Saturday nights in Provo. BYU
plays Southern Utah State in the first round. The other first round
game in Georgia and Santa Clara.



1992-93 Schedule

Nov. 21		Slovenian National Team	(exhib)	Provo  (BYU 98-46)
Nov. 25		Athletes In Action	(exhib)	Provo  (BYU 90-70)
Dec. 1		Arizona State			Provo  (BYU 108-98)
Dec. 4		Utah State			Logan  (BYU 93-83)
Dec. 8		Weber State			Ogden  (Weber 83-77 OT)
Dec. 11		Cougar Classic			Provo
		  Santa Clara vs. Georgia
		  Southern Utah vs. BYU
Dec. 12		Cougar Classic			Provo
Dec. 18		Utah State			Provo
Dec. 21		Maui Invitational		Lahaina, HI
		  BYU vs. Oklahoma		
Dec. 22		  Memphis State or Chaminade
Dec. 23		  Duke, LSU, Stanford, or DePaul
Dec. 28		Far West Classic		Portland, OR
		  BYU vs. Oregon
Dec. 29		  BYU vs. ?
Jan. 2		UTEP				Provo
Jan. 4		New Mexico			Provo
Jan. 9		Utah				Provo
Jan. 14		Fresno State			Fresno, CA
Jan. 16		Air Force			Colorado Springs
Jan. 21		San Diego State			Provo
Jan. 23		Hawaii				Provo
Jan. 28		Colorado State			Fort Collins
Jan. 30		Wyoming				Laramie
Feb. 4		Colorado State			Provo
Feb. 6		Wyoming				Provo
Feb. 11		Hawaii				Honolulu
Feb. 13		San Diego State			San Diego
Feb. 18		Fresno State			Provo
Feb. 20		Air Force			Provo
Feb. 25		Sacramento State		Provo
Feb. 27		Utah				Salt Lake City
Mar. 4		UTEP				El Paso
Mar. 6		New Mexico			Albuquerque
Mar. 10-13	WAC Tournament			Delta Center, Salt
Lake City
 

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