Provo • There was pandemonium and sheer joy in the Beo household of Richland, Wash., when the call came from BYU basketball coach Dave Rose early last summer.
"Everyone in the house was going nuts," recalled BYU freshman guard Steven Beo after getting the news that he was getting a scholarship. "My mom was crying and my dad was hugging everyone. We were all jumping around. Yeah, that was a really, really good day."
After a slow start in which he played just 21 minutes in BYU's first nine games — he missed three games altogether with a thumb injury — Beo emerged in the Dec.