Winless in the West Coast Conference before Saturday night, the Pacific men's basketball team hands BYU a 76-73 loss that will hurt the Cougars' NCAA Tournament résumé.
It is the first Quad Four loss in the Mark Pope era and first back-to-back regular season loss in the last three years.
“We got to start putting some teams away,” Knell said last Tuesday, a message that only became more salient once BYU lost on a buzzer-beater to Santa Clara on Thursday. “It’s a really disappointing weekend,” said Pope, who stared at Pacific’s celebration in disbelief after going through the handshake line. “I wasn’t too pleased with the fact that we let them shoot the ball so well. You give credit to them and also it’s a real issue for us.”
Every time BYU tried to get back into the game, mistakes would get in the way. The Cougars had 13 turnovers, close to a season-high. At one point, BYU had the game within two with 12 seconds to play, but Alex Barcello turned the ball over and the comeback was stymied. Barcello had 19 points. Te’Jon Lucas added 13. But overall the Cougars had multiple spells of four minutes where it did not score. In those times, Pacific pushed its lead to double-digits.
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