BYU basketball: Bench, defense lead Cougars to victory over Northern Arizona (+video)

By Jeff Call, Deseret News

Published: Thursday, Dec. 27 2012 11:25 p.m. MST

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With West Coast Conference play right around the corner, the most encouraging sign Thursday night for coach Dave Rose was the performance of the reserves in the Cougars' easy 84-54 victory over Northern Arizona at the Marriott Center.

"We were sitting on that Baylor loss (on Dec. 21), and we were fired up every day in practice," Davies said. "We wanted to make sure we took care of business tonight."

With the win, the Cougars improved to 9-4 on the season, while Northern Arizona fell to 4-8.

BYU meets Virginia Tech Saturday (noon MT, ESPNU) at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

NOTES: Announced attendance was 17,342. … Bronson Kaufusi, who joined the basketball team this week after recently completing the 2012 football season, sat on the bench in street clothes Thursday night. … Guard Anson Winder started the second half for Carlino because the referees told Carlino he would not be able to wear the black tights he had on in the first half.

Email: jeffc@desnews.com

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Olympus Cove, Utah

Note to indycrimson

Why are you trolling BYU blogs instead of worrying about your own team "tuning up" to be PAC 12 cannon fodder by playing tiny College of Idaho, enrollment 1050?

Of course we'll hear lots of Utah More..

9:21 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
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Just the FAX

Olympus Cove, Utah

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12:58 p.m. Dec. 28, 2012
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CougFaninTX

Frisco, TX

Carlino, Cusick and Zylsta were not great players last year; but all three had times when they played great. I was expecting all three to take a big step forward this year and really improve our guard / perimeter play, but instead if feels like all More..

10:55 a.m. Dec. 28, 2012
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