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Show 6 Monday, February 1,2010 Monday SPORTS Wednesday Men's Tennis Utah vs. South Carolina/VCU TBA Knoxville, Tenn. 18° / 9 a.m. 33° / 3 p.m. Friday Thursday Colorado State @ Utah 6 p.m. Huntsman Center Utah @ Colorado State 7 p.m. Fort Collins, Colo. Utah @ BYU 2 p.m. Eccles Tennis Center A few inches of fresh snow over packed powder. Brighton 18° / 9 a.m. 33° / 3 p.m. Canyons 23° / 9 a.m. 390 / 3 p.m. 82 Wichita State @ Utah 6 p.m. Provo ► Men's Basketball Score Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Swimming & Diving Women's Tennis TODAY'S SKI REPORT Alta www.dailyutahchronicle.cor 69 conditions & weather from utahskiweather.com Deer Valley 23 39 °0 // 39 a.m. p.m. Snowbird 18° / 9 a.m. 33° / 3 p.m. Solitude 19° / 9 a.m. 34° / 3 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL Second-half run too little too late for Utes Joseph Simmons STAFF WRITER The Runnin' Utes began the game with plenty of emotion against rival BYU, but yet another slow start let the Cougars get a lead Utah couldn't overcome. After falling behind by 18 points, the Utes put together an impressive second-half rally to trim the BYU lead to four points. However, Utah had no answer for Jimmer Fredette that night, as the Cougars ran away with the 82-69 victory in front of 22,644 fans at the Marriott Center in Provo. Fredette led all scorers with 36 points, going four for five from 3-point range and ended the Utes' late rally by scoring 12 consecutive points for the Cougars in just less than two and a half minutes. "I thought Jace (Tavita) did a great job on him, but (Fredette) had a great night," said head coach Jim Boylen. "What we should be talking about is what a great player Fredette is, not how we didn't guard him well enough. He had to work for his points, but he got them. He had a great night." Boylen tried throwing several different players at Fredette on defense, including Tavita for most of the second half, but no one seemed to be able to slow him down. Utah senior Luka Drca had the assignment in the first half, but after the game said he didn't think there was much that could have been done to stop Fredette's attack. "Fredette is a great player," Drca said. "He took the game over, there at the end. At the beginning, I had the assignment to guard him, and I think I did pretty good, but he just kept going at us and making plays." The Cougars started the game with a much more balanced attack, and the Utes quickly found themselves trailing big early on. Boylen started the game with a new lineup, with forward Jay Watkins replacing Shawn Glover, and Carlon Brown moving back in for Jace Tavita. The change did little to get the Utes going on offense, and by the Jo-minute mark, the Cougars were enjoying a 15-point lead at 2510. Boylen said that in changing the lineup, he was trying to overcome the Utes' tendency to start slowly, but he said it was largely ineffective. See MEN Page 7 MIKE MANGUM/The Daily Utah Chronicle Jimmer Fredette scored 36 points Saturday against Utah. Twelve of Fredette's points came right after Utah pulled with in four points, and that put the game out of reach for the Utes. BYU's Fredette unstoppable in rivalry game Bubba Brown STAFF WRITER Two things were clear after Saturday night's men's basketball game against BYU. The Utes have the ability to play neck-and-neck with BYU, which is ranked No. Io in the Associated Press poll, and, frankly, Cougar guard Jimmer Fredette didn't like that. The Utes weathered a slow start but got within four in just less than seven minutes left to play. BYU had the Utes on its heels, and it looked as though Utah was primed to take the game down to the wire. Enter Fredette. The BYU junior took over the game by scoring the next 12 points for his team to push the lead back into double digits. The stretch, during which he outscored the whole Utah team combined by seven points, included two 3s with Ute defenders in his face, bookended by two acrobatic 3-point plays under the rim. "He's a great player—he took the game over at the end," said Utah guard Luka Drca. Fredette finished the game with 36 points, 24 of which came in the second half. "I knew that I needed to be more aggressive and was 14 MIKE MANGUM/The Daily Utah Chronicle Jay Watkins led the Utes with 18 points, 13 of which came in the second half. After a slow start, Utah trailed by 15 points at half. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL See FREDETTE Page 7 GYMNASTICS Red Rocks 'a little flat' in win over Washington Paige Fieldsted SPORTS EDITOR TANER PASAMEHMETOGLU/The Daily Utah Chronicle Kalee Whipple had her second straight double-double Saturday against BYU, but it was not enough, as the Utes lost 69-52. Women fall to Cougar defense in rivalry game Corbin Godfrey STAFF WRITER turned up the heat on defense, ruthlessly pouring on a full-court press that the Utes had trouble breaking all game. "I think it speeded up the game," said BYU head coach Jeff Judkins. "And that's what we wanted. We wanted to get as many shots as we possibly could and be more aggressive offensively, and I think the press did that today." With six minutes 26 seconds left in the second half, the Utes trailed by 25 points, 59-34. They didn't give up there, though, going on a 13-3 run during the next two and a half minutes to pull within 15 points. But it was too little too late for Utah, as they scored just four points The Huntsman Center saw 3,155 fans— a number well above average—show up Saturday afternoon for the Deseret First Duel rivalry game between Utah and BYU women's basketball. It wasn't much of a show, though, as the fast-paced offense and high-pressure defense of the Cougars proved to be too much for the Utes to handle, and the Cougars took off in the second half for a 69-52 win. To start the second half, Utah quickly cut an 11-point lead down to eight and looked poised for yet another secondhalf comeback as they have proven to be a second-half team all year. But BYU See WOMEN Page 7 It's often said in sports that "a win is a win," no matter how poorly the team performed. That was the case for the Red Rocks gymnastics team as they earned their first road win of the season over the Washington Huskies on Friday night. Despite beating Washington by more than a point with a score of 195.850194.650, it was the first time all season Utah didn't improve on its scores from the previous week. After performing in front of a recordbreaking 15,552 fans in the Huntsman Center, the Red Rocks had trouble firing themselves up in front of 1,851 fans. "I was pleased with some things, but my overall impression was that we seemed a little flat," said co-head coach Greg Marsden. "I can rationalize about it, but the fact is that we talked about creating our own intensity and not relying on the opponent or the size of the crowd." Although Utah took a lead after the first rotation and never looked back, trouble for the team begin during the warm-ups, when a problem with the springs on the vault board caused the coaches to sit Annie DiLuzio and replace her with Stephanie McAllister on the vault. McAllister scored a 9.750 in her first collegiate vault. "We had problems with the springs (on the vault board) and didn't figure out what was wrong until the end," See GYMNASTICS Page 7 THIEN SOK/The Daily Utah Chronicle Dania Bijak scored a 39.225 in the all-around on Friday against Washington, which was enough for her to win her second straight all-around. The Red Rocks also earned their first road win over the Huskies with a final score of 195.850-194.650. |
