Trey Stewarts heroic defense turned the flood against Iowa State – Deseret News

Kansas City – Curtis Jones in the state of Iowa was “cooking”, as the children say.

After the 6-foot 4 guard of Minnesota 22 points in a period of five minutes, 23 seconds in the first half against BYU in a quarter-final game of Big 12 tournament, he recorded right there in the second half.

The transmission of Buffalo opened the second half with a step-off as a 3 pointer to press the cyclone with 18:24 to 60-52.

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Enter Byus Trey Stewart, one of the best defensive players of the Cougars together with starter Mawot Mag-and as a harder a man whom coach Kevin Young has in his arsenal.

“You’re again, brother?” Jones said when Stewart put himself against him shortly after the return.

Little knew Jones how prophetically these words would be.

Jones would only score a goal again, until 4:57, mainly due to the defense of Stewart and Mag and some timely switches of Dallin Hall, Egor Demin and Dawson Baker.

This bucket-cut byus lead to 84-82 and some free throws from Jones with 1:15 left left the deficit to 89-88, but that was it and the Cougars rode with a 96-92 victory despite 31 points by Jones, the sixth man of the year of Big 12.

After 8 out of 12 in the first half, including 6 out of 9 out of 3-point range, Jones was only 3 out of 10 in the second half and only made a 3 pointer.

Stewart said he knew the order and was more than ready to try it.

“Ky said at the beginning of the season that our ceiling will be how we play defense,” said Stewart. “Jones cooked. I can’t lie. It was fun to see. He is a good guy. It was fun to play against him. I love this defensive challenge. “

Stewart, who took the anger of the Utah fans after the 85-74-by-by victory in Provo last Saturday, he said that he hate Utah “with a burning passion”, also thrown six points with two 3-point at the offensive end in six points.

“I said ‘fun to see it’ (Jones) in relation to fun to watch this fight, and it’s no fun seeing him against us,” said Stewart. “But really (it was about) just being proud. We come into play and try to play harder than the guy in front of us, and I have the feeling that we made it really proud in this second half and carried out our defense. “

“You’re again, brother?”

– Curtis Jones to Trey Stewart in the second half of the BYU victory against Iowa State

Iowa State played without a starter Tamin Lipsey and Keshon Gilbert-Die together with 28 points and nine templates in the 88-85 BYU victory in double extension in Ames in Ames, the slack made up for the slack early.

But in the end byus won superior depths. Byus Bank scored 41 points, while Isu only had nine.

“They were gone and they had gotten boys,” said Byus Young. “The show that Curtis Jones put on in the first half was remarkable. It felt like making a shot no matter what we did. “

Some of these shots were 10 out of 10 on the scale of difficulty, including more than a 3 pointer from the logo. The combined 31 3 pointers combine the record for most combined 3-point in every Big 12 game.

“Our boys did a good job to survive the storm and do enough on both sides of the ball to give us the lead,” said Young. “Trey came in and gave us a good defense; Richie (Saunders) played some big games for us all year round, played some huge games, some huge free throws on the track that we rely on. “

In Ames, Saunders was 13 out of 13 from the charity strip; On Thursday he was 8 for 8 years old. That is 21 in a row when both Building Hilton Coliseum and T-Mobile Center were loud that his dribbling before his free throws could not be heard.

“Jones was a one-man wreck crew. He caught fire and as Trey said it was definitely not fun to see from our seat, ”said Young. “But I am sure that Y’all’s seat was quite spectacular. So credit for him for a great individual performance. “

And Stewart that he abruptly brought it to a standstill.

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