Basketball

With the final whistles being blown and the last outs being made in the 2007-08 season, it's time to take a look back at the year in high school sports that has finally drawn to a close.

DOUG ALDEN

SALT LAKE CITY -- Tracy McGrady snapped out of his fourth-quarter slump and scored seven of his 27 points in the final period, leading Houston to a 94-92 victory over Utah on Thursday night that gave the Rockets life in a series that could have been headed for a sweep.

On Aug. 29, history will be made in high school football in southern Utah County.

Lee Cummard thought, before another first-round loss, that it would take a win in the NCAA tournament to distinguish this men's basketball season from the previous one.

Is this all there is? That's the question BYU sports fans have to be asking themselves after the men's basketball team lost yet another first-round NCAA tournament game on Thursday. For the fourth time since 2004, the Cougars played well enough to be in an NCAA tournament game but not to win it.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- BYU officials scampered around the Honda Center late Thursday, hurriedly calling anyone that had to rush to the team hotel, get packed and hop a charter plane homebound.

ANAHEIM, Calif.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- BYU is coming off a game in which it was battered in the category of offensive rebounding.

ANAHEIM, Calif.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lynden Rose can feel it when he talks to his nephew, and can see it with his own eyes when BYU's basketball team is on television.

If they were disappointed, the NCAA Tournament-bound basketball players of BYU sure did a good job of hiding it.

LAS VEGAS -- They call themselves the "Fresh 4," and it's rare that all have them have ever been stale the same time.