Utah State Falls To BYU For The Eighth Straight Time

AGGIES KEEP IT CLOSE BUT FALL TO THE COUGARS Contact/Follow @MWCwire Cougars continue winning streak over Aggies Make it eight straight for the Cougars over the Aggies. BYU came up victorious Saturday night with a 68-64 win in Salt Lake City. Utah …

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AGGIES KEEP IT CLOSE BUT FALL TO THE COUGARS


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Cougars continue winning streak over Aggies

Make it eight straight for the Cougars over the Aggies. BYU came up victorious Saturday night with a 68-64 win in Salt Lake City.  Utah State hung with BYU the entire game but could never open up a sizeable lead.  The Aggie faithful showed up in force to cheer on their team.  About 2/3 of the crowd seemed to be Aggie fans.

Yoeli Childs led the way for the Cougars with 20 points and 10 rebounds.  The Senior forward is a force to be reckoned with down low.  Utah State did a pretty good job defensively double-teaming Childs nearly every time he touched the ball.

Senior guard TJ Haws had a big first half for the Cougars helping them take a 7 point lead into the break.  Haws scored 13 of his 16 points in the first half.  After the break Haws cooled down but still did a good job getting his teammates open and finished with 5 assists.

Utah Native, Abel Porter, played arguably his best game in an Aggie uniform.  Porter finished with 13 points to go along with 2 rebounds and 4 assists.  Porter played a whopping 37 out of the possible 40 minutes.

Alphonso Anderson certainly did his part against the Cougars last night. Anderson finished with 14 points and 4 rebounds.  Anderson played a big part in helping the Aggies get back into the game in the second half.  An extremely controversial moment in the game came when Anderson hit a three pointer while standing on the NBA three-point line.  The referees were unable to notice the difference between the college three-point line and the NBA three-point line and awarded the Aggies only two points.

Sam Merrill played his final regular season game against BYU Saturday night.  Merrill finished his career against BYU with a big fat goose egg in the win column.  Growing up in Bountiful, about halfway between Logan and Provo, Merrill is no stranger to the importance of in-state games. Historically Merrill has been extremely underwhelming against the Cougars and last night was no exception.  After the final buzzer rang Merrill finished with 11 points and 8 rebounds.  7 of his 11 points came from the free throw line.  From the field Merrill shot an abysmal 2-10 including 0-4 from behind the arc.

The Aggies had a chance to take the lead with 45 seconds left but missed their chance when Justin Bean and Neemias Queta both missed layups.  The Cougars hit a three on the ensuing possession pushing the lead to 68-64.

Sideline Notes:

Utah State will face BYU in the Spectrum next season.

Utah State will travel to Houston, TX to face USF on  a neutral court and then to Sunrise, FL to face the Florida Gators next week.

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