Cougars set to pounce on Horned Frogs

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02/02/2010 - Provo, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Clinging to first place in the Mountain West Conference standings, the 12th-ranked BYU Cougars try to put some distance between themselves and the rest of the member schools as they host the TCU Horned Frogs tonight at the Marriott Center in Provo.

BYU, played twice last week and in the first outing suffered its first league defeat of 2009-10 with a 76-72 setback to nationally-ranked New Mexico on the road. Three days later, the Cougars redeemed themselves with an 82-69 victory over Utah at home, running their record to a perfect 12-0 in their own building and 6-1 in conference.

As for the Horned Frogs, who are tied with Wyoming for sixth place in the league standings at just 2-5, they are trying to halt a season-high three-game slide on the road tonight. The squad took on New Mexico on Saturday at home and was handed a 72-57 loss.

At one point in this series the Horned Frogs put together a three-game win streak against BYU, but that was finished more than a decade ago and since then the Cougars have captured 10 consecutive victories over TCU. Last season, BYU posted a 73-61 win in this building in January and then logged a 79-63 triumph down in Fort Worth as well.

The schools will complete their regular-season series this year the first week of March at TCU.

Ronnie Moss exploded for a career-high 30 points, shooting not only 12-of-17 from the field but also 5-of-7 behind the three-point line for the Horned Frogs on Saturday as he logged the 600th point of his career, but it wasn't nearly enough as he and TCU bowed to New Mexico on the road. Moss, who is sixth in the nation in assists with almost six and a half per contest, handed out eight of the unit's 11 assists in the outing. Zvonko Buljan was the only other double-digit scorer for the program, posting 11 points for a team that was outscored at the free-throw line, 20-2, and turned the ball over 16 times. Moss has been trying to keep it all together for the Horned Frogs this season, leading the team and ranking among the league leaders in scoring with his 14.5 ppg, even though he is shooting just 38.7 percent from the floor at the moment. Zvonko Buljan and Edvinas Ruzgas account for 13.3 and 12.4 ppg, respectively, the former collecting a team-best nine rebounds per game and the latter having made good on 42.5 percent of his three-point tries as the Frogs hit on only 33.4 percent out on the perimeter.

Once again it was the Jimmer Fredette show for the Cougars over the weekend as he tallied a game-high 36 points in the win over Utah at home. Fredette, who now holds the BYU record for the most points ever scored against a Utah program, connected on 4-of-5 beyond the arc and 11-of-23 from the floor overall, while Tyler Haws added 15 points to the offensive attack for BYU. Named the Mountain West Player of the Week on Monday for the fourth time, Fredette is now posting a lofty 21.2 ppg and is even shooting better behind the three-point line (.484) than he is the field (.474) through 21 appearances. Fredette has not only made good on almost 90 percent of his free- throw tries (122-of-136), he has also found opportunity to hand out a team- best 104 assists, benefiting the likes of Haws (12.3 ppg) and Jackson Emery (12.0 ppg) who have been filling the gap left by Jonathan Tavernari (9.7 ppg) who has gone from being one of the leading performers in the MWC a year ago to barely shooting 40 percent from the floor and coming off the bench now for a group that is converting 49.8 percent from the field and 41.9 percent out on the perimeter.

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