BYU Men's Basketball Team Lost in Overtime, 79-75, to Colorado State in Fort Collins Saturday General Information Night
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BYU Men’s Basketball Game Notes – vs. SDSU (MWC Quarterfinals) 2000-01 Mountain West Conference Tournament Champion • 2000-01 MWC Regular Season Co-Champion 25 Conference Championships • 19 NCAA Appearances • 8 NIT Appearances • 2 NIT Titles • 1 Eastman/Wooden Award Winner BYU Faces San Diego State Thursday in the MWC Tournament 2001-02 Schedule/Results No. 4-seed BYU (17-10, 7-7 MWC) faces No. 5-seed San Diego State (18-11, 7-7) Overall: 17-10 H: 15-0 A: 1-10 N: 1-0 Thursday at 2:30 p.m. PST (3:30 p.m. MST) in the opening round of the 2002 EAS Mountain West Conference Men’s Basketball Championship held at the Thomas & MWC: 7-7 H: 7-0 A: 0-7 Mack Center in Las Vegas. The 2001 MWCtournament champions, BYUseeks to defend its title this week and earn a second straight trip to the NCAA to u r n a m e n t . Da t e Opponent (TV) Tim e Thursday’s quarterfinal matchup is being televised by ESPN+Plus (KJZZ-TV, channel No v . 17 at Univ. of San Diego 70 - 5 9 W 14, in Salt Lake City). The live radio broadcast can be heard on KSLNewsradio 116 0 , No v . 24 Arizona State (SWP/Fox Sports Ariz.) 82 - 7 0 W beginning with an hour pregame show. No v . 28 at UC Santa Barbara 58 - 6 8 L Up Next Dec. 1 at Utah State (SWP) 81-90 (OT) L The BYU-SDSU winner will face either top-seed Wyoming or No. 8 Air Force Dec. 5 Weber State 65 - 4 7 W Friday at 6 p.m. PST (7 p.m. MST). The game will also be an ESPN+Plus telecast. Dec. 8 Creighton (SWP) 61 - 5 2 W Dec. 12 Fort Lewis (KBYU) 10 1 - 5 3 W MWCTournament Media Day Practice Dec. 15 University of Idaho (KBYU) 70 - 4 8 W BYUpractices Wednesday from 1-2:25 p.m. at Cox Pavilion, Gym #2. Coaches and Dec. 22 v. Stanford in Las Vegas (ESPN) 81 - 7 6 W players are available for interviews AFTER practice. The practice is open to the media. All subsequent game-day practices are closed. BYU’s women’s team holds Dec. 27 Cal State Northridge 84 - 7 0 W its open practice on Tuesday from 4-4:55 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Center. Dec. 29 Southern Utah 79 - 5 8 W Jan. 2 Un i v . of San Francisco 65 - 5 1 W GAME FACTS (BYU Game 28) Jan. 5 at Pepperdine (SWP, FSW2) 79-82 (OT) L Jan. 12* San Diego State (SWP) 75 - 6 4 W Jan. 15* UN L V (SWP) 60 - 4 7 W Th u r s d a y , March 7, 2002 Jan. 19* at New Mexico (ESPN+Plus) 58 - 7 3 L Jan. 21* at Air Force (SWP) 64 - 7 4 L BY U (17-10, 7-7) vs. San Diego State (18-11, 7-7) Jan. 28* at Utah (ESPN) 66 - 7 1 L Thomas & Mack Center [18,500] • Las Vegas, Nevada • 2:35 p.m. PT / 3:35 p.m. MT Feb. 2* Wyoming (ESPN+Plus) 85 - 7 0 W Feb. 4* Colorado State (SWP/WB, delay^) 57 - 5 2 W Coaches: . .BYU, Steve Cleveland (84-67 in fifth year; same overall) SDSU, Steve Fisher (37-47 in 3rd year; 221-129 in 11th year overall) Feb. 9* at UNLV (SWP, WB, Live) 70 - 7 3 L Feb. 11* at San Diego State (SWP, WB, delay^) 73 - 7 7 L Series: . .BYUleads, 35-14 Feb. 16* New Mexico (ESPN+Plus) 68 - 6 2 W TV: . .ESPN+Plus (KJZZ-TV, channel 14, in SLC) Feb. 18* Air Force (SWP, WB, delay^) 67 - 5 1 W Air Time: 2:30 p.m. PST / 3:30 p.m. MST Feb. 23* Utah (ESPN+Plus) 63 - 6 1 W Play-by-Play: Rich Waltz Feb. 28* at Wyoming (SWP, WB, delay^) 60 - 7 6 L Game Analyst: Irv Brown Ma r . 2* at Colorado State (SWP, KSL) 75 - 7 9 L Radio: . .KSL Newsradio 1160 AM (Cougar Sports Network) Ma r . 7-9 at MWC Tournament in Las Veg a s Pregame Air Time: 1:30 p.m. PST / 2:30 p.m. MST *Mountain West Conference game Play-by-Play: Greg Wrubell Game Analyst: Mark Durrant BYUMEDIA POLICIES/INTERVIEW PROCEDURES Web: . .Live audio on KSL.com All media interviews with players and coaches must be scheduled through Brett Pyne of BYU Athletic Media BYU’s Probable Starters: Pos. # Name Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG Relations Office. He can be reached on his cell at 801-367- F 3 Mark Bigelow 6- 7 19 0 So . 14 . 8 2. 8 1631. No interviews will be scheduled on game day until F 25 Eric Nielsen 6- 9 21 5 Sr . 10 . 4 4. 9 after the game. Coach Cleveland and at least two players C 52 Ja r ed Jensen 6- 9 24 5 Fr . 9.3 3. 5 will speak to the media after the mandatory 10-minute G 2 Travis Hansen 6- 6 21 0 Jr . 15 . 5 6. 4 cooling off period in the post-game press conference orga- G 31 Matt Montague 6- 0 19 0 Sr . 6. 6 7. 3 ap g nized by the Mountain West Conference. Additional post- BYU Reserves: game player or coaches interviews can be arranged Pos. # Name Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG through Brett Pyne or Duff Tittle of the BYU Media G 20 Daniel Bobik 6-6 205 So. 6.6 2.3 Relations office. BYU’s weekly media day this week will G 22 Jimmy Balderson 6-6 200 Fr. 4. 1 1. 5 be held Wednesday in Las Vegas. BYUpractices C 42 Jon Carlisle 6-10 250 So. 1.8 1.5 C 40 Dan Howard 7-0 225 So. 1.7 2.1 Wednesday from 1-2:25 p.m. at Cox Pavilion, Gym #2. F 32 Bart Jepsen 6-9 235 So. 0. 9 1. 5 Coaches and players are available for interviews AFTER G 10 Terry Nashif 5-10 165 Fr. 0. 5 0.6 apg practice. Wednesday’s practice is open to the media. F 4 Jesse Pinegar 6-9 225 Fr. 0.3 0.5 w w w . b y u c o u g a r s . c o m 2001-02 BYU Basketball CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT INFO/page 2 BYU IN THE CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT 2002 EAS MWC Men’s Championship Schedule The Cougars have a 17-14 record in conference tour- nament games, which includes a 5-1 Mountain West Thursday, March 7 tournament record and a 12-13 record in WAC tour- No o n . .#1 Wyoming vs. #8 Air Force (ESPN+Plus) nament games. BYU has advanced to the finals in 2:30 p.m. .#4 BYU vs. #5 San Diego State (ESPN+Plus) both years of the MWC tournament, winning the title over UNM last year and losing to UNLV in 2000. BYU 6 p.m. .#2 Utah vs. #7 Colorado State (ESPN+Plus) defeated Air Force and co-champion Wyoming last 9 p.m. .#3 UNLV vs. #6 New Mexico (ESPN) year in the first two games. In 2000, BYU defeated UNM and Utah in the first two tourney games. BYU Friday, March 8 has won the opening game the last three postseason 6 p.m. .#1 v. #8 winner vs. #4 v. #5 winner (ESPN+Plus) conference tournaments, including an upset of TCU, 9 p.m. .#2 v. #7 winner vs. #3 v. #6 winner (ESPN) 90-74, in its first-round WACtournament in 1999. Prior to the last two years, the last time BYU won two Saturday, March 9 tournament games and advanced to the tournament 7 p.m. .Championship (ESPN) finals was 1994 when BYU beat Utah 96-65 and Fresno State 87-72 in the Delta Center in Salt Lake ** Times are local to site (PST) City before losing to Hawaii in the finals, 73-66. Before last year, the last time BYU won the conference tournament title was in 1992, when the Cougars’ Kevin Nixon hit a dramatic three-quarter court shot at the buzzer to defeat UTEP, 73-71, in Fort Collins, MOUNTAIN WEST ANNOUNCES 2002 EAS MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET Colo. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Mountain West Conference announced its 2002 Men's BYUMEN AND WOMEN IN TITLE GAMES Basketball Championship bracket Saturday night, with Wyoming earning the No. 1 seed in BYU men’s and women’s basketball teams have both the tournament to be held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 7-9. reached the tournament finals the past two years. It is BYU finished the regular season tied for fourth in the league standings with San Diego State the first times both teams have made it to the finals in and will be the No. 4-seed pitted against the No. 5 Aztecs Thursday at 2:30 p.m. the same season. Before the past two years, the women last advanced to the finals in 1993. Wyoming (20-7, 11-3) claimed the first outright regular-season title in the three-year history of the Mountain West Conference with a 57-56 victory over Utah Saturday in Laramie. The BYU CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT RESULTS Cowboys shared the league title with BYU and Utah last season with 10-4 conference marks, 3/ 9 / 8 4 v. New Mexico (at El Paso) 55-64 L but earn their first outright league crown since 1981-82 and become the first MWC team to 3/ 0 4 / 8 5 Air Force (at Prov o ) 79-82 L win 11 league contests.