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Show DAILY HERALD C4 HE SAID IT MEN'S STANDINGS Team Conf BYU 71 18-- 7-- 2 18-- 5 6-- 3 16-- 7 IA.V San Diego State Overall 5-- 18 6 Utah 5-- 4 14-- 12 10 TCU 4-- 5 12-1- 0 Wyoming Colorado State 2-- 7 0-- "I'm not really sure where our heads were at." After his team had arguably the worst outing in conference play Mexico last Saturday. loss at New 5 2. UNLV Pokes. Wednesday's games at Wyoming. 6:30 p.m, (Mtn.) BYU at Colorado St., 7 p.m. New Mexico at SDSU, 9 p.m. (Mtn.) I At 3. Utah (14-- i 17-- 6. TCU 12-- 0 WASHINGTON The score was tied. There was less than one second to play, and Georgetown's Jonathan Wallace was dribbling 70 feet from the basket when he heard the whistle. He wondered what was up. After all, there's no way a referee would call a foul in that situation, right? Guess again. "At first I thought I stepped out of bounds." Wallace said, "because I was trying to make a play with the time running down. But I did kind of (feel . nudge when I was trying to turn the corner." "So," Wallace shrugged, "a a) call's a call." And he's not about to raise a fuss over it. That "nudge" was a bump from Villanova's Corey Stokes, the 48th foul called in a frustrating, game. Wallace hit both free h of a throws with second on the clock to give the No. 8 Hoyas a victory Monday night, their first home win over the Wildcats in more than a decade. "Wallace was dribbling, and the ref called a foul," said Stokes, who became the game's fourth player to foul out on the play. "What are you going to do?" Wallace scored 15 points for the Hoyas (20-- 10-- 2 Big East), who have won seven of eight and bounced back from rt one-tent- 55-5- 3 3, 5-- 6, 4) like The Pit and lousy 6-- 3) 7, Air Force feV T-- 9 ), The Lady Vols (22-1- ) enpoints for Kansas but missed a in the final secfinal tered the second half with a ond that would have sent the 3 lead after the Scarlet game into overtime. Knights (194) made only two field goals and two free throws in the 11 minutes beWomen's Top 25 fore the half. I No. 1 Tennessee 59, No. 5 But Tennessee went cold after the break, making only against Jeremiah Rivers, ran Rutgers 58: At Knoxville, out of room and attempted a one shot from the field Tenn., Nicky Anosike sank a from Angie Bjorklund pass that Rivers deflected for two free throws with k turnover. of a second left and No. in the first 14 12 minutes. 1 Tennessee rallied "I felt like I really had to to beat lead on Rutgers took a foul him for the refs to call it No. 5 Rutgers a Rashidat Junaid layup with on Monat the end," Rivers said. "The day night in a rematch of last 10:08 to go. Vaughn's putback refs always let you play when season's national championbasket put the Scarlet Knights the time's running down. I ship game. up 1 with 1:35. wasn't going to foul him anyAnosike Trailing Coming off a timeout, Shanway." grabbed an offensive rebound non Bobbitt nailed a and was grabbed by Kia for Tennessee with 1:23 left. No. 11 Texas 72, No. 3 Kansas After Matee Ajavon missed a Vaughn from behind. Unclear 69: At Austin, Texas, Damion whether the foul had come be- layup on the other end, Alexis James scored 12 points and fore time expired, the Rutgers Hornbuckle grabbed the bench began to celebrate, but rebound, setting up another grabbed 13 rebounds in the officials reviewed the play and second half, and Texas held by Bjorklund to put off Kansas in yet another determined that the foul had the Lady Vols up by 1. been committed just before the Carson responded immedithrilling matchup in a rivalry that has quickly escalated into buzzer. ately with jumper with 26 secone of the best in the Big 12. Television replays showed onds left. Bobbitt and Parker James missed most of the both missed shots on the goal the game clock seemed to first half with foul trouble, pause as Anosike came down before Anosike was fouled then provided the muscle Tex with the ball and trying to grab the rebound. 34-2- two-tent- 39-3- 8 Feb. 56-5- two-tent- 0-- (6-1- 7, 2-- 3, 9) 7) 1. New Mexico 2. UNLV . 3. BYU 4. San Diego Stale ,T5. TCU T5. Utah 7. Wyoming (To Its. 9 9 8 9 9 9 691 628 555 Avg.G 76.8 69.8 69.4 65.4 589 586 65.1- 9 9 586 584 546 9 490 65.1 64.9 60.7 54.4 Stale 8. Colorado 9. Air Force 6 Scoring Defense Team LAirForce 2 San Diego State 3. Utah 4. UNLV 5. BVU 6. 7. 8. 9. 6 9 9 9 ':' Pis. 522 542 543 558 505 595 617 684 689 9' 8 9 9 9 9 TCU New Mexico Colorado State Wyoming AvgVG 58.0 60.2 60.3 62.0 63.1 66.1 68.6 76.0 76.6 Free Throw Percentage Team G 1 9 UNLV 2. Colorado State 3. TCU 4. Utah 5. San Diego State 6. Air Force 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 T.Wyoming 8. NewMexico 9. BYU 8 Field Goal T1. New Mexico 9 9 8 9 TLUtah 3. BYU 4. San Diego State Air Force TCU 9 .. 9 UNLV 9. Wyoming Colorado Pet 112 155 125 121 128 176 174 192 191 .723 .710 .695 .667 .644 .606 ' 123 97 .782 .781 .761 160 Percentage 6 Team 5. 6. 7. 8. FTA 147 128 138 FTM 115 100 105 9 9 9 State FG 242 205 199 212 53 FGA Pet 529 449 453 494 .457 .457 .439 .429 .424 .416 .415 .407 .390 361 502 525 209 218 204 195 501 500 Field Goal Pet. Defense Team 1. Utah 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. BYU San Diego State Air Force UNLV New Mexico Wyoming Colorado TCU State FG FGA Pet 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 166 181 196 178 196 208 242 237 213 475 460 .392 .393 .407 .419 .427 ,9 482 425 459 483 .431 .439 .444 .479 551 534 445 Field Goal Percentage Team 6 9 9 1. New Mexico 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. G 9 Air Force TCU BYU UNLV Colorado San Diego Wyoming State State FGA 194 9 9 FG 84 64 63 63 8 60 9 77 56 172 235 9 9 9 Pet .433 .379 .368 .366 .349 .328 .290 .267 .262 169 171 172 193 150 183 40 48 Rebounding Margin TEAM Team 0PP Avg. Margin 37.2 288 32.0 5.2 38.6 274 34.2 4.4 33.3 265 29.4 3.9 33.8 274 30.4 3.3 1.1 35.2 307 34.1 37.8 333 37.0 0.8 32.9 312 34.7 1.8 24.1 288 32.0 7.9 31.1 357 39.7 6 6 G .I.San Diego State 9 2. BYU 3. TCU 4. Utah 8 9 9 5. New Mexico 6. Wyoming 7. UNLV 8. Air Force 9. Colorado State 9 9 ,99 9 Avg. 335 309 300 304 317 340 296 217 280 Blocked Shots Team G 1. Wyoming 2. Colorado State 3. San Diego State 9 9 Blocks 44 34 33 32 25 22 21 16 14 Avg.G 4.89 3.78 3.67 3.56 2.78 2.75 2.33 1.78 1.56 G Assists AvgVG 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 135 150 148 123 112 106 98 98 94 16.88 16.67 16.44 13.67 12.44 11.78 10.89 0.69 0.44 5. New Mexico 6. BYU 9 9 9 8 7. UNLV 8. TCU 9. Air Force 9 9 9 4. Utah Conference games only through Feb. 9 be ranked, a player must appear in at least 75 percent ot their team's games) Scoring Player, Team G 1. Marcus Walker, CSU 2. Wink Adams, UNLV 3. Joh. Bryant, Utah 9 9 9 9 4. J.R. Giddens, UNM 5. Tim Anderson, AFA 9 6. Brandon Ewing. Wyo. 9 f. Lorrenzo waoe, iubu 8. Lee Cummard, BYU 8 9. Trent Plaisted, BYU 8 10. Kevin Langford. TCU 9 11. Luke Nevlll, Utah 9 12. J. Tavemari, BYU 13. Joe Darger, UNLV 8 9 14. Ryan Amoroso, SDSU 15. Kyle Spain, SDSU 16. Henry Salter, TCU T17. Brad Jones, Wyo. T17. Chad Toppert, UNM 19. Brent Hackett, TCU 20. Curtis Terry, UNLV 9 8 8 9 9 T. 2: 3. 4. 5. 1. BYU .2. New Mexico 3. UNLV 4. Utah 5. Wyoming 6. TCU T7. Air Force 17. San Diego State 9. Colorado State 9 9 Steals 76 68 63 62 51 49 7. Utah 44 Stale Team Avg76 8.44 7.56 7.00 6.89 5.67 4.89 4.78 4.13 33 Turnover Margin UNLV 9 9 9 4. San Diego State 9 5. TCU 9 8. BYU 8 7. Utah 9 8. Colorado State 9 9. Wyoming 9 2. NewMexIco 3. Air Force TEAM Avg. 84 99 111 118 139 101 108 117 147 0PP 9.3 11.0 12,3 135 143 13.1 120 15.4 12.8 12.0 13.0 16.3 138 91 115 92 90 100 1 UNLV 2. New Mexico 3. BYU 4. Utah 5. Air Force S 9 9 8 9 6. San Diego State 9 7. Colorado Stale 9 8. TCU 9 9. Wyoming Margin 5.67 15.9 4.89 12.8 0.44 13.3 0.22 15.3 0.11 11.4 1.25 10.2 1.78 10.0 3.00 11.1 5.22 Avg. 15.0 Ratio Assist-to-Turnov- er Team 9 Aiit 148 150 135 123 98 98 94 106 112 22.2 18.1 17.1 17.0 153 152 16.9 43 23 145 36 141 25 122 29 119 su 42 45 44 46 41 37 48 29 34 27 34 38 30 42 16.1 15.7 15.3 14.9 14.7 132 39 131 6 109 22 116 15 115 28 99 20 4 13 23 4 14.6 13.6 12.9 128 12.4 7 12.3 48 Hi 29 9 106 106 11 21 18 17 105 98 11.8 11.7 10.9 9 8 9 9 9 OFF 15 DEF TOT Avg.G 61 76 17 20 21 19 19 13 22 19 19 15 12 46 49 47 48 37 49 40 43 63 69 68 67 56 62 62 62 55 53 46 37 8.4 7.9 7.7 7.6 7.4 SDSU Ryan Amoroso, Joseph Taylor, Wyo. Lee Cummard, BYU 8 T7. Lorrenzo Wade, SDSU 9 T7. Rene Rougeau, UNLV 9 T7. Luke Nevlll, Utah 9 10. Billy White. SDSU 9 12. Shaun Green, Utah 9 13. C. Collinsworth, BYU 8 T17. J. Tavemari, BYU 8 Field Goal 38 34 29 8 7.0 6.9 6.9 6.9 6.1 5.9 5.8 4J Percentage 5.0 made per game) (Min. Player, Team 1. Luke Nevlll, Utah 2. Ryan Amoroso, S0SU 3. J.R, Giddens, UNM 4. Lee Cummard, BYU 5. Trent Plaisted, BYU 8. Johnnie Bryant Utah 7. Marcus Walker, CSU 8. Lorrenzo Wade, SDSU 9. Jonathan Tavemari, 10. Wink Adams, 36 BYU UNLV G FG FGA Pet 9 46 77 597 9 9 48 64 86 .558 .533 8 8 9 42 45 53 9 8 73 50 41 9. 51 120 80 88 109 325 .511 .486 .453 .427 .423 .405 161 117 97 126 Assists Player, Team G 1. Curtis Terry, UNLV 2. Luke Drca, Utah T3. Brad Jones, Wyo. T3. Ben Murdock, BYU 5. Brandon Ewmg, Wyo, 6. Lee Cummard, BYU T7. Lorrenzo Wade, SDSU T7. J.R. Giddens.UNM T9. Oairese Gary, UNM 9 9. wink Adams, UNLV 8 Assists 53 37 9 36 8 32 AvgJG 28 5.89 4.63 4.00 4.00 3.78 3.50 9 31 3 44 9 31 9 29 29 344 3.22 9 34 8 9 3.22 Free Throw Percentage (Min. 2.5 made per game) Player, Team 1 2. 3. 4. 5. FTM 32 G Marcus Walker, CSU Kyle Spain, SDSU Wink Adams, UNLV Tim Anderson, AFA Lee Cummard, BYU Jamaal Smith..UNM Kevin Langford, TCU Brad Jones. Wyo. 9 8 9 . ' 28 41 FTA Pet 36 32 .889 875 .872 .843 .833 47 43 25 9 8 9 9 9 6. 7. 8. 9 Brandon Ewing, Wyo. 10. Luke Nevlll, Utah 51 30 25 9 9 806 31 53 42 48 23 39 32 792 .727 719 56 696 66 Steals Player, Team G 1. Rene Rougeau, UNLV 2. Brandon Ewing, Wyo. T3. Tim Anderson, AFA T3. Dairese Gary, UNM 5. Brent Hackett, TCU T6. Jason Ebie, TCU T6. Keith Maren, AFA Steals 22 18 AvgJG 2.44 17 17 1.89 1.89 1.67 2.00 15 13 13 13 T6. Marcus Walker, CSU T6. J.R. Gidden, UNM T10. Billy White, SDSU T10. Wink Adams, UNLV 1.44 1.44 1.44 1.44 1.33 1.33 13 12 12 Avg. Turn. 16 4 64 16 7 99 18.9 101 13.7 108 10.9 111 10.9 118 10.4 11 8 117 12.4 147 139 Player, Team made per game) 1. Chad Toppert, UNM 2. Henry Salter, TCU 3. Johnnie Bryant, Utah 4. Jonathan Tavemari, BYU G 9 8 3FG 9 8 31 21 Ratio 1.76 11.0 1.52 12.6 M 12.0 1.14 12.3 0.88 13.1 0.83 13.0 0 60 15 4 0 76 16.3 0.76 Avg. 9 3 Pet FGA 29 23 53 547 523 44 66 54 470 J89 Field Goals Made Player, Team 1. Johnnie Bryant, 6 Utah 2. Chad Toppert, UNM 3. Henry Salter, TCU 4. Jonathan Tavemari, BYU T5. Marcus Walker, CSU T5. Brandon Ewing, Wyo. T7. Tim Anderson, AFA 17. Curtis Terry, UNLV T9. Wink Adams, UNLV T9. Joe Darger, UNLV 3FG 31 9 AvgV6 ' 29 23 9 8 6 9 21 344 3 22 2 88 263 2.44 22 22 9 9 2 44 2 33 33 2 22 9 21 21 2 9 9 20 20 222 544 43 6 18 AvgVG Field Goal Percentage 1. TCU 2. New Mexico 3. San Diego State 4. UNLV 5. Wyoming 6. Air Force 8. Colorado 9. BYU 64 44 G (Min. 2.5 Steals Team FT 32 41 50 9 9 J.R. Giddens, UNM Trent Plaisted, BYU Ronnie Aguilar, CSU 6. Pts. 200 163 17 154 FG 3FG 73 22 51 53 Rebounding Player, Team Assists Team stats Individual 9 59-5- 8 58-5- (9-1- Scoring Offense Team free-thro- ), advantage when Falcons rt at New Mexico (7) Team stats free-thro- 7-- 2 it in Conference games only through Am as (204, remained on the clock, leading Big 12 ) needed to counter the Jayhawks' size to the controversial finish. and strength under the basket. Anosike camly stepped up James finished with 14 and hit the two free throws to seal the victory. points. Connor Atchely led Texas with 16 points and A.J. Candace Parker, who Abrams added 14 points. bruised her knee in the Lady Darrell Arthur scored 22 to Vols' last game, had 27 points lead the Jayhawks (23-and 10 rebounds, and Angie who lost for just the second Bjorklund added 13. time in 33 regular season Epiphanny Prince had 21 games dating back to last sea- points for Rutgers, and Esson. Mario Chalmers added 13 sence Carson added 18. 4-- 5) 0, CONFERENCE STATISTICS -- one-gam- (8) (4) Wyoming Mailed hj (12-1- Colorado State T-- 9 . a loss at Louisville on Saturday. Georgetown won despite second-hal- f blowing a lead and scoring only two field goals over the final eight minutes. Scottie Reynolds scored 24 ; points to lead the Wildcats (14-who have lost six of seven, and he tied the game with a running layup in traffic with 1:05 to play. After Georgetown's Austin Freeman missed a the Wildcats set up a final shot. There was no doubt the ball would be in Reynolds' hands. He drove baseline home-cou- struggle I Pounding the message home: The hottest team besides BYU (winner of six in a row and in first place) is rival Utah, which has captured three straight. That includes last week's home win against UNLV (which was then tied for first . , in? with the Cougars) and at Air ; Force. First year coach Jim about disBoylen's words cipline, competitive spirit, toughness and determination are sinking in. And he's not letting up. "I kind of stick with the same messages. We try to clean up the things we didn't do well, like game plans and system things," Boylen said. "But this team has to handle success, it has to compete at a high level. 1 call it the games inside the game. The loose ball game, the offensive rebound game, the attempt game. We have to win the effort side of the game to be successful. CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald I pound that everyday ...and I BYU's Trent Plaisted takes a shot during a game against TCU on don't think it will change." Wednesday. Colrado State plans on sending the BYU center I Food for thought: OK, so it is to the line many times on Wednesday. still only in the "others receiving votes" category. But it is month in the meeting. who had 12 points and eight interesting to note the different perceptions that go with There should be some more rebounds in the first meeting MWC basketball. A panel of with BYU. clarity after the meeting be31 coaches, in the ESPN-UStween the teams Saturday at Don't be shocked if the two the Marriott Center. Today poll, had the Cougars posts use their allotment of BYU has another connection hacks on Trent Plaisted. ranked 33rd two spots behind UNLV, to poll disparity. Louisville, "We've got 10 fouls, right, which the Cougars defeated and he shoots about 50 perMeanwhile, a group of 72 media members in the Associover Thanksgiving weekend cent," Miles said. "Well, there in Las Vegas, is healthy, winated Press balloting had BYU you go." 32nd, which was five spots Plaisted is at 52.9 percent ning and back in the AP poll ahead of the Runnin' Rebels (23) and just out of the coaches overall, 46.8 in conference. Alin a weekly vote that was also version (26th). though he has gone 14nof-2-0 in released Monday. the past two games. I Blunt and simple: Colorado Interesting. BYU has a e lead against UNLV State coach Tim Miles has I Jason Franchuk can be in the MWC standings, but two big men now, Creason to reached at jfranchuk was also brutalized early last heraldextra.com. join reserve Ronnie Augilar, 4-- 5) (12-1- 0, Important guard Salter back to better health told local media that the player was still enrolled in school and could possibly practice with the team this year, and play next year, if he "met some expectations" in the program. TOP 25 ROUNDUP ASSOCIATED PRESS (18-er slump-bust- st No. 8 Hoyas edge Villanova THE failures (5) Let the fade begin? (3) 7-- 2. Utah .'. Utah (1) 4) 5. San Diego State (16-- Clune no Mac-Greg- 5-- 8. close-gam- e Nothing says opposition (6) 7. g 7-- 2) 5, 4. New Mexico 1 in MWC play, the Cougars are off to their best league start in Mountain West Conference history and their best conference start since 1995 (WAQ. I BYU currently owns the nation's second-longeactive home win streak with 43 straight wins in the Marriott Center, three victories behind No. 1 Memphis. BVU 0 went at home last year and is at home this year. I Utah won for the first time this season when trailing at halftime. The Utes had lost their seven previous outings when trailing at the intermission. at New Mexico, 7 p.m. (Mtn.) at BYU, 7 p.m. (CSTV) hasn't seen the court. I San Diego State was hit by the "indefinite" bug when it suspended second-leadinscorer Kyle Spain, and coach Steve Fisher did not give any indication (at least publicly) what kind of penalty time was awaiting the junior forward. A variety of reasons were given by MWC coaches as to. how much "indefinite" can hurt a team. Could it be easier to know a player is suspended, or laid out by injury, for a more precise period of time? What could a team rally around better? BYU coach Dave Rose thought a big factor was "the personality of the team." He's been one of the more fortunate coaches this year. None of his starters have been injured (though he has lost two reserve big men to season-endin- g Gavin injuries even before the season started, and Vuk Ivanovic). Rose went a turbulent time last year, however, when starting point guard Rashaun Broadus was charged on suspicion of driving under the influence in early January, barely into conf erence play. Rose made the choice to kick the senior off the team, ; though there's more than one person around campus who suspects that decision allowed , Broadus a chance to stay in school one which clearly discourages the consumption of alcohol, even if the person is of age and get a degree. Fisher, on his eight minute segment of the conference call Monday morning, felt it was inappropriate to talk about hours later Spain. Go figure he announced Spain was done for the season. ;. Spain had also been suspended in :!iiiir. hough Fisher (18-- Getting over 0 . AROUND THE CONFERENCE Saturday's games San Diego St. at Utah, 2 p.m. (Versus) Wvoinmg at Air Force, 4 p.m. (Mtn.) Continued from CI 1) Cant afford losses like the one at m New Mexico senior guard J.R. Giddens scored a career-hig- h 36 points, grabbed 11 reboundsvand added a personal-best six steals in the Lobos' demolition derby of the TCU MWC 7-- 5, HE DID IT Today's game Force at UNLV. 8 p.m. (CSTV) TCU 100-5- f .Air UNLV a (18-- Four words Cougs love: 'Control our own destiny' (Last week: 2) Wyoming forward Ryan Dermody 7 9 1. BYU 8 4-- Force HERALD POWER RANKINGS 5 New Mexico Air Tuesday, February 12. 2008 Blocked Shots Player, Team 2. Ronnie Aguilar, CSU Luke Nevlll, Utah 3. Joseph Taylor, Wyo, 4. Billy White. SDSU 5. Rene Rougeau, UNLV T6. Lorrenzo Wade, SDSU T6. J.R. Giddens, UNM T8. Mikhail Linskens. Wyo. T8. Ryan Dermody, T10. Travis Nelson, T10. Shaun Green, ' Wyo. Wyo. Utah 6 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Blocks 9 9 9 9 9 17 AvgJG 1 89 15 ) 67 13 144 133 12 11 22 10 111 111 100 10 too 9 8 0 89 8 0.88 Ratio Assist-to-Turnov- er (MiiMAattMsgame) Player, Team 1. Jonathan Wills, 6 Assl UNM 9 2. Curtts Terry.UNLV 3. M. Lawrence. UNLV 9 15 53 9 11 T4. Ban Murdock, T4. Chad Toppert, BYU 8 32 UNM 9 9 6. Dairese Gary, UNM 16 29 7. Shaun Green, Utah 9 20 8. J.Fredette,BYU 8 21 t. Luka Ores, Utah I 37 10. Joe Darger, UNLV 9 13 Turn. 1.9 3 5.9 19 1.2 4 4.0 12 1.8 6 3.2 11 2.2 8 2.6 10 4.6 18 1.4 7 Avg. Avg. Ratio 04 500 21 279 04 275 ijj 2gr 07 267 2 0. 1.3 2 64 2 50 2J0 24 2.06 0 Ijjfj 8 www.Gouaarblue.com |