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Show Mexico in their opening WAC game Friday, 59-57, but retaliated re-taliated with an important 96-91 96-91 victory the following night over the Wyoming team. Fair-child Fair-child was the big gun for the Y getting 34 points. Robinson, Wyoming's hot shot, got 27. Y plays Denver there Saturday BYU's basketball team will absent itself from the bubbling, boiling conference race for the next four weeks, turning its attention to a pair of non-league non-league opponents, Denver and Utah State. The Cougars' mid-season departure de-parture from WAC warfare will be an extended one. They will not return to conference action until Feb. 8. In the meantime they will play two games each with Denver and Utah State. This week the Cougars will travel to Denver for a Saturday Satur-day night game with the Pioneers. Pio-neers. A week later they will meet the Aggies in Logan. The mid-season change of pace may prove beneficial, since the Wattsmen have been playing at an excellerated clip for the past six weeks. From Dec. 6 to Jan. 11, they played a total of 13 games, more than half of which were on the road. However, the decellerated schedule will also have its challenges. The calibre of competition com-petition in the Pioneers and Aggies is typically high. Denver Den-ver has scored wins over Ari-' Ari-' zona State and Baylor, while Utah State, one of the better teams in the Far West, has a 9-2 season mark. BYU lost a close one to New |