BYU pretty much took all the marbles in the ISU win. Utah would love non other then to beat BYU in their house but I’m pretty sure they, Utah, are going to run into a very motivated BYU squad who want’s wins to pile up for seeding in March.
The only hope Utah has of winning in Provo is to hit maybe 15 threes. BYU is far more likely to hit 15 threes and with easy to fix TO problems, and no real holes as a team should blow this thing open.
In the first game loss, Utah had many more fouls called vs. BYU going 17-32 vs. 4-10 free throws. That is the only stat that defines that 1st game loss. Both teams were pathetic from 3land, shooting 26%. That stat will change.
Boskovic got 3 minutes scored only 2 points
Catchings got 13 min scored only 3 points
Mag got 14 min scored only 6 points
Hall got 34 min scored only 2 points
Utah’s Asher got 31 min scored 26 points, his best game of the year
Utah’s Gabe Madson has shot 277 threes to date. that is all he does and he leads Utah in scoring…our version of Knell.
What I am getting at is Utah won’t get a big game out of Asher again and don’t give Madson any open looks. Catchings won’t be getting minutes while Mag is red hot. Boskovic has steadily increasing his minutes and does about the same thing as Knell…stretch the court wide open so Demin and Hall can work. Lastly, Hall is 100% out of his funk. He is approaching Richie Saunders status as far as needing to be out there.
Summation:
BYU is far from the team Utah faced a month ago. two Keys to BYU’s big 7 game win streak…
Hall is playing MVP ball again
Mag can lock down anyone on D.