BYU won the game 91-86. BYU held out 4 scholarship players; sources tell me they were held out for precautionary reasons and are minor reasons. Boise State, meanwhile, played with its top players. The Broncos played 11 players and BYU played 9 guys. Degenhart was as good as advertised for Boise State, pouring in 31 points on the Cougars.
BYU was led by Richie Saunders. Richie led BYU with 25 points, 6 steals(!), and was 9-10 from the foul line. Five total BYU players scored in double figures. Dawson Baker was BYU’s second-leading scorer with 19 points, and Trevin Knell shot 4-8 from distance. Egor Demin led all players with 8 assists.
Tom was at the practice last week, Hall was in a boot
It is not lost on me that BYU played BSU’s starters with our “new” guys plus Saunders, Baker and Knell. Richie had 25/6 steals/9 of 10 FTs. Remember last season with T Larimer said, “Richie would be an all Big 12 guard”. How many of you believed it???
And Baker gets 19. And Knell, 4-8 from 3land. Just pointing out how the make up of BYU’s old core and the addition of EGOR-Catchings-Meg are going to roll!
Egor had 8 assists, there is no box score or stats out there but we could see this coming a mile away!!!
9th in the big 12…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa
I fully expect BYU to do better than 9th, but the single report I have seen of this game, which you basically quoted in all important respects, leaves me with some qualms.
Boise State is not bad by any means, but BYU just beat a team that would likely be in the bottom half of the B12, by only 5 points…not exactly something to auger a team ready to contend for a big dance invitation.
Given the incredible weakness of BYU’s pre-conference schedule, for BYU to dance this season, it will have to do much better than the team that managed to eke a win over a MWC contender.
BSU is a very good team and BYU played with a number of holdouts. I think we will all learn more, when we actually see the team in action in about 10 days