No. 20 BYU wraps up 22-win common season with win over Oklahoma State

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PROVO — All that was left of BYU males’s basketball’s first common season within the Huge 12 by Saturday night time was an opportunity to honor three seniors and clinch a No. 5 seed in subsequent week’s convention event in Kansas Metropolis.

The Cougars did it the one approach they know the way: with a flurry of threes, a giant night time from Fousseyni Traore, and an enormous second-half run.

Traore scored 13 of his 19 factors within the second half; Spencer Johnson added 14 factors, 10 rebounds and 5 assists; and No. 20 BYU canned 12 triples en path to a 85-71 win over Oklahoma State in entrance of a sold-out crowd of 17,978 followers on the Marriott Heart.

Jaxson Robinson had 17 factors and 5 rebounds for the Cougars (22-9, 10-8 Huge 12), and Aly Khalifa totaled 9 factors, 4 rebounds and three assists.

Javon Small scored a career-high 32 factors to guide the Cowboys (12-19, 4-14 Huge 12).

BYU began 2-of-10 from the sphere earlier than Robinson checked in off the bench, and the senior with a yr of eligibility remaining (who celebrated senior night time previous to tipoff) instantly hit a pair of layups to guide the workforce in scoring.

Robinson scored on 4 of his first 5 pictures from the sphere, and Khalifa drained his second 3-pointer to raise the Cougars to a 21-14 lead with 6:54 left within the half.

The Cougars shot simply 39% kind the sphere within the first half, however made 4 3-pointers to Oklahoma State’s two and held the Cowboys to simply 40% taking pictures en path to a 32-29 halftime edge.

Traore added 6 factors and three rebounds earlier than the half for BYU.

Khalifa and Johnson drained back-to-back 3-pointers as BYU capped a 13-0 run to open the second half with a 45-29 benefit. The Pokes missed their first 5 makes an attempt from the sphere, and the Cougars stretched their run as excessive as 18-4 and 21-6 to take a 52-35 lead on Traore’s hook shot with 13:46 remaining.

BYU linked on six of its first eight 3-pointers of the second half, shot an efficient field-goal share as excessive as 98%, and turned a 3-point halftime edge right into a 25-point margin halfway although the second half.

The Cowboys did not lower inside double digits the results of the way in which in opposition to a BYU workforce that shot 18-of-26 from the sphere within the second half together with 8-of-12 from distance and 9-of-12 from the free-throw line.

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