Y. gets largest victory ever

I copied this article from the Salt Lake Tribune. I couldn't believe the score. WOW!!!

Y. gets largest victory ever
Oregon 102-40
By Lauren Gustus
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:12/23/2006 01:13:19 AM MST
PROVO - If they didn't arrive early to the Marriott Center on Friday night, then Brigham Young fans who expected to see a game were doubtlessly disappointed. The Cougars overwhelmed Division II Western Oregon, 102-40, stumbling only at the very start, after a weeklong layoff for final exams.
"I'm pleased with the way our guys played tonight, after a long week with a lot of distractions," coach Dave Rose said.
BYU (7-4) made baskets from near (guard Jimmy Balderson dunked twice), far (the team shot 61 percent from the three-point line) and all points in between. But a crowd of only 8,277 - dissuaded perhaps by a bowl game in Las Vegas the day before or by the opponent or by iffy weather - witnessed the Cougars' biggest win ever.
The 62-point victory was the largest in the program's history, eclipsing a 108-57 win over St. Mary's (Calif.) on Dec. 10, 1966. Every BYU player, save one, scored. Little-used sophomore Gavin MacGregor scored BYU's 100th point, from the free-throw line.
The Cougars executed on the other side of the ball, too, holding the Wolves to just six points through the first 12 minutes of the second half.
"We didn't really come to play, offensively," said Western Oregon coach and BYU alum Craig Stanger.
The Wolves entered the game shooting nearly 50 percent from the field, but they finished 20 percentage points off that Friday.
"Our defensive intensity in the second half just helped us increase the lead," BYU guard Lee Cummard said.
Western Oregon (3-6) hung with a slow Cougars team in the first half; it was 11-11 with 13:40 to go.
But BYU's bench kick-started its bleary-eyed starting five. Post player Vuk Ivanovic scored eight points over the last 10 minutes of the half. And substitute Jonathan Tavernari went 4-for-4, for 10 points, in the first half, finishing as the high scorer, with 17 points, on 7-for-8 shooting.
"Tonight was really good for our team. I think our staff, we learned a lot about how we can put those guys in better positions to actually help our team . . .'' Rose said. "Once we got through the first eight or 10 minutes, I thought everybody that went in gave us a pretty good lift. You get a different perspective in where you fit in a team."
Brigham Young's Keena Young and Western Oregon's Alex Swerzbin provided the most tense moment of the second half, when the two got close and exchanged words following a whistle.
Both received technicals and Swerzbin fouled out. Young, who was replaced by Austin Ainge, did not re-enter the game, but the Cougars picked up much where they'd left off before the distraction, building on a then 30-plus point lead.
"Once you get into a situation like that, especially when the score was what it was, sometimes you feel a lot safer with the player involved in the scuffle on the sidelines," Rose said.