BYU basketball: Gonzaga edges BYU, 70-65

By Jeff Call, Deseret News

Published: Thursday, Feb. 28 2013 11:30 p.m. MST

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Summary

Gonzaga entered the Marriott Center Thursday night as the No. 2 team in the country — the highest ranked team ever to face BYU on this court.

Kaufusi's hard foul on Olynyk — and a stare-down — resulted in an intentional foul on Kaufusi. Olynyk made one of two free throws, then on the Zags' ensuing possession, Kyle Dranginis nailed a 3-pointer to give Gonzaga a 54-43 advantage with a little more than 10 minutes remaining.

BYU closes out the regular season Saturday (9 p.m. MST, ESPNU) at Loyola Marymount.

NOTES: Prior to tipoff, BYU honored its five seniors — Brandon Davies, Brock Zylstra, Craig Cusick, Chris Collinsworth and Stephen Rogers … Former BYU tight end Dennis Pitta, a member of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, was honored at halftime … Former BYU guard Austin Ainge, the director of player personnel for the Boston Celtics, was in attendance Thursday.

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gonefishn

Salt Lake City, UT

Great effort by the BYU team, they had a couple different chances and that is all you can ask for. As for the fans they proved two things, they are loud and ignorant. Booing every single call no matter how obvious is getting old.

11:50 p.m. Feb. 28, 2013
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LonestarRunner

Salt Lake City, UT

StGtoSLC

"So did Coach Rose attempt to take a page out of Larry's book..."

Hardly.

The gaping hole in your theory is Utah does the slow down hack fest EVERY game (averaging 64 ppg), while this was an More..

12:20 a.m. March 1, 2013
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TrollPolice

Salt Lake City, UT

LOL!

More comments from Utah trolls about the BYU-Gonzaga game, than about the Utah-California game...

and Utah's game ENDED before BYU's game even started...

obsessed much Utah fans?

12:29 a.m. March 1, 2013
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