1977-78 Schedule

@ UCLA
Long Beach St.
@ Nevada-Reno
@ Idaho St.
Montana
Cal-St. Fullerton
McNeese St.
@ Illinois
@ Bradley
@ Utah St.
@ San Diego St.
vs. N. Carolina
vs. Rhode Island
@ Hawai'i
Weber St.
Utah St.
@ Wyoming
@ Colorado St.
Arizona
Arizona St.
@ New Mexico
@ UTEP
Utah
Colorado St.
Wyoming
@ Arizona St.
@ Arizona
UTEP
New Mexico
@ Utah


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1977-78
BYU Basketball
All Games 12-18
Conference 6-8
Marriott Center 9-4
Cougar Classic 0-2 (4)
Rainbow Classic 1-2 (7)

Scoring Avg.
Offense 81.0
Defense 83.2
-2.2

Starters Avg.   Reserves Avg.
Center Taylor, Alan 14.3  
Forward Rice, Keith 13.3   Nielsen, Kevin 4.1
Forward Roberts, Glen 8.1  
Guard Ainge, Danny 21.1   Ballif, Greg 5.1
Guard Runia, Scott 11.3  
Coach Frank Arnold

Western Athletic Conference Standings
Team Coach W-L Pct. Off. Def. W-L Pct. Off. Def.
Brigham Young Frank Arnold 10-2 .833 81.9 71.8 20-8 .714 85.0 76.6
Utah Jerry Pimm 9-3 .750 76.3 74.1 20-10 .667 77.6 75.5
New Mexico Norm Ellenberger 8-4 .667 77.7 75.5 19-10 .655 88.5 82.0
Wyoming Jim Brandenburg 5-7 .417 61.9 63.5 15-12 .555 70.6 65.6
San Diego St. Tim Vezie 4-8 .333 78.0 80.8 15-12 .555 80.7 78.2
UTEP Don Haskins 3-9 .250 64.9 67.3 11-15 .423 69.0 67.8
Colorado St. Jim Williams 3-9 .250 69.7 76.6 11-16 .407 73.5 74.3

Schedule/Results
Date Opponent Score W/L
N 26 @ UCLA 73-75 L
N 28 Long Beach St. 100-91 W
N 29 @ Nevada-Reno 66-100 L
D 3 @ Idaho St. 87-94 L
D 9 Montana* 72-76 L
D 10 Cal-St. Fullerton* 75-80 L
D 14 McNeese St. 78-68 W
D 16 @ Illinois 74-81 L
D 17 @ Bradley 86-79 W
D 21 @ Utah St. 89-91 L
D 23 @ San Diego St. 88-104 L
D 28 vs. N. Carolina^ 81-94 L
D 29 vs. Rhode Island^ 87-92 L
D 30 @ Hawai'i^ 88-78 W
J 3 Weber St. 81-76 W
J 7 Utah St. (2OT) 85-84 W
J 12 @ Wyoming 82-89 L
J 14 @ Colorado St. 66-76 L
J 19 Arizona 87-86 W
J 21 Arizona St. 96-89 W
J 26 @ New Mexico 82-95 L
J 28 @ UTEP (OT) 78-76 W
F 4 Utah 76-89 L
F 10 Colorado St. 98-81 W
F 11 Wyoming 76-56 W
F 16 @ Arizona St. 75-76 L
F 18 @ Arizona 90-104 L
F 23 UTEP 73-64 W
F 25 New Mexico 66-71 L
M 4 @ Utah 74-81 L
* Cougar Classic
^ Rainbow Classic

First-team All WAC
Marvin Johnson, New Mexico
Jeff Judkins, Utah
Michael Cooper, New Mexico
Danny Ainge, BYU
Buster Matheney, Utah
Second-team All WAC
Alan Cunningham, Colorado St.
Barry Young, Colorado St.
Tony Zeno, Arizona St.
Danny Vranes, Utah
Phil Taylor, Arizona

Total Rebounds
Player Pos GP FG FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Tot Avg PF FO A Blk Stl Pts Avg
Ainge, Danny g 30 243 473 .514 146 169 .864 173 5.8 113 9 158 6 60 632 21.1
Taylor, Alan c 29 170 301 .565 76 127 .598 246 8.5 102 9 50 28 10 416 14.3
Rice, Keith f 29 156 348 .448 73 121 .603 163 5.6 96 10 47 11 21 385 13.3
Runia, Scott g 30 150 280 .536 40 50 .800 63 2.1 58 3 145 2 35 340 11.3
Roberts, Glen f 29 76 179 .425 75 122 .615 147 5.1 114 11 73 5 23 227 7.8
Ballif, Greg g 28 58 149 .389 23 32 .719 36 1.3 53 1 29 2 11 139 5.0
Nielsen, Kevin f 28 42 84 .500 27 33 .818 39 1.4 41 1 22 5 1 111 4.0
Anderson, Greg g 18 19 52 .365 22 27 .815 14 .8 28 0 23 0 3 60 3.3
Anderson, Steve g 18 17 45 .378 17 20 .850 17 .9 11 0 8 0 3 51 2.8
McGuire, Dave c 21 19 42 .452 14 19 .737 54 2.6 15 0 2 10 1 52 2.5
May, Mike g 11 5 11 .455 1 3 .333 2 .2 7 0 3 0 0 11 1.0
Frazier, Danny f 2 1 1 1.000 0 0 .000 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.0
Vos, Paul c 2 0 1 .000 1 2 .500 1 .5 0 0 0 0 0 1 .5
Cheesman, Larry f 6 1 7 .143 0 0 .000 7 1.2 2 0 4 0 0 2 .3
Stroud, Mark f 4 0 1 .000 0 0 .000 0 .0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .0


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