Basketball

A double-digit lead in the second half was nearly gone. Utah Valley State was in danger of blowing a lead and losing for the first time this year in the McKay Events Center on Thursday night.

A few happenings were there Wednesday to signal the end of BYU's home-court dominance. Its leading scorer was hardly to be found, as was the leading rebounder.

The Lone Peak boys basketball team used a suffocating defense and a balanced offense to overwhelm Spanish Fork 72-44 in Highland Friday night.

Pleasant Grove boys started the night a bit perplexed by the Timberwolves defense.

As Super Tuesday came and went without any clear-cut frontrunners being established in the political realm, the Region 7 basketball picture became even clearer as Provo continued its dominance in defeating Orem 55-48 at Tiger Fieldhouse.

The Pleasant Grove girls came out firing early in the Region 7 match-up against Timpanogos.

It had to the worst nightmare for the Spanish Fork defense.

The Lone Peak boys basketball team outscored American Fork 33-16 in the second half to earn a 71-41 victory in a hard-fought contest.

Three coaches, and with that unbreakable brotherhood comes as many thoughts on the potential cringe factor of BYU's game Saturday at Wyoming.

And now there is one.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The little nook doesn't look like much. Room 2083, locker room C, is merely the place away from the Marriott Center where BYU is starting to get a tradition of celebrating.

It sure seems like Trent Plaisted is never going to get healthy. He's battled a cold and now a wicked case of flu-like symptoms that nearly knocked him out of Wednesday's game at Air Force.