"Defensively, it's going to be a real battle for us to contain a great scorer in Clyburn, a great dribble-penetrator in Watkins, and J.J. O'Brien has become a great rebounder in his position. Those are all things we're going to have to address and make sure we're ready for."
"They're a talented team," Emery said. "We can't doubt that."
BYU sophomore Stephen Rogers, who scored 11, including three 3-pointers at Air Force, grew up in Arizona, but he knows all about the Cougar-Ute rivalry.
"I'm very familiar with it," he said. "I have a lot of family up here. I've known about it my whole life. Obviously, we beat them pretty bad at their place. They're not going to come out flat, that's for sure. They're going to come out ready to play. It will be a fun game."
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Saturday, 4 p.m.
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The big difference with two teams going in different directions, hedgehog, is that it doesn't matter what conference you go to in bball. If you win, you win and get to go to March madness, no matter what conference you are in or no conference at all! More..
And of course the lost little misplaced hedgehog sitting alone... lost in the tree's on the edge of the Great Black Swamp has played his usual unchanged melody of woe...and still... there is "No JOY" in Ann Arbor. Your wake up call Hedgie More..
Hope Jimmer gets his 50 today! So long Utes, enjoy obscurity in the PAC-10.2
Never mind your inane comments about BYU going to the WCC. We've heard them before.
You are about to be Jimmered.