Basketball

Timpview struggles with shooting, falls to Bountiful in 4A semis

When it comes right down to it, basketball is a very simple game: Put a round ball into a round hoop. Do it more than the other team and you win.

OGDEN -- Mountain Crest found out just how tough a matchup Provo's junior center Brandon Davies can be.

OGDEN -- Defending champs meet the defending champs.

OGDEN -- When things got tight and the situation was critical, Timpview knew what it must do.

OGDEN -- So this is how Jason Kapono felt when he won the NBA 3-point contest.

In an up-and-down season for the BYU women's team, the confines of the Marriott Center have usually been a happy home.

ALBUQUERQUE -- Dave Rose finished his coach's show around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and took an exhilarating walk out of The Pit that entails a long journey up a steep concrete path.

When the game is on line in the final seconds, the recent trend in both college and professional football has been to wait until right before the ball is snapped for a field goal and call timeout to try and throw the kicker off his rhythm.

What looked like a comfortable margin of victory for second-ranked and unbeaten Davis was anything but.

According to the NCAA, Utah Valley State guard Ryan Toolson does not exist.

Fremont was able to hang around for a half with some hot 3-point shooting, but Lone Peak opened the third quarter with a 12-2 run to take control of the game and went on to a 69-47 victory in the first round of the 5A boys basketball tournament Monday at Weber State's Dee Events Center.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- It's right where BYU wants to be, playing on the most important Mountain West Conference night of the season -- and having a margin for error to boot.