Weber State Humbles Byu, 97-80

Alex Fisher scored 25 points, 22 of them in the first half, and Damien Baskerville added 13 of his 20 points in the second half to lead Weber State to a 97-80 victory over Brigham Young on Wednesday night.

Weber (2-2) led the entire game. In the first half, Fisher led the Wildcats with six 3-pointers.

The Wildcats’ widest lead of the half came with 3:07 left to intermission as Fisher hit a 3-pointer to make it 46-28.

Weber led 51-36 at the half.

Brigham Young’s Grant Berges scored 12 of his team-high 22 points before the break.

Fisher hit the first bucket of the second half, but BYU (0-4) then outscored Weber 13-4 over the next 6 minutes and drew within 57-49 with 14:14 left on a shot by Matt Montegue. That was as close as the Cougars came as over the next 11 minutes Weber outscored BYU 33-19.

Weber took its widest margin at 90-68 with 3:27 left as Greg Emery made a breakaway layup.

Jeff Campbell and Montegue scored 14 and 13 points respectively for the Cougars. Campbell had nine rebounds.

Ryan Cuff had 11 points for Weber, all in the first half.