Provo • For three halves of basketball last week — the entire game against No. 4 Gonzaga on Thursday and the first 20 minutes against Loyola Marymount on Saturday — BYU’s season appeared to be on the verge of circling the drain.
Then freshman forward Gavin Baxter and junior guard Nick Emery rescued the Cougars, combining for 31 points in the second half as BYU outscored LMU 44-23 in the final 20 minutes to take a tougher-than-it-looks 67-49 win at the Marriott Center. It was quite the recovery, after BYU was pummeled 93-63 by the powerful Zags on Thursday and fell behind 26-23 to the Lions in the first half Saturday.