Cougars to host Washington in NIT on Tuesday

Game notes: BYU vs. Washington in the NIT

No. 3 seed BYU will host No. 6 seed Washington in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. MDT. Tuesday's game will be televised on ESPN and broadcast on KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM and 1160 AM.

Coach and Player Interviews

No. 3 seed BYU Cougars (21-11, 10-6 WCC)

• Head Coach: Dave Rose
• Alma Mater: Houston, 1983
• Division I Career Record: 206-65 (8th)
• Record at BYU: Same

No. 6 seed Washington (18-15, 9-9 WCC)

• Head Coach: Lorenzo Romar
• Alma Mater: Cincinnati, 1992
• Division I Career Record: 330-216 (17th)
• Record at Washington: 237-128 (11th)

BYU in the NIT

• This will mark BYU’s 11th appearance in the NIT. The Cougars have a 12-8 record in the NIT, including titles in 1951 and 1966. 
• BYU has played in the NIT in the following years: 1951, 1953, 1954, 1966, 1982, 1986, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2013.
• BYU is 6-1 all-time in NIT games played in the Marriott Center with the only loss coming to Washington in 1982.
• BYU retired the jerseys of Mel Hutchins and Roland Minson on Feb. 16, 2013. Hutchins and Minson led the Cougars to the 1951 NIT title.

Game Information

Player and team notes

• Tyler Haws has scored 20-plus points 21 times this season, the most by a sophomore in a single season at BYU and the seventh-most in any season in program history.
• BYU won its 20th game with a 70-68 victory against Utah State, giving the Cougars eight-straight 20-win seasons, the longest such streak in program history. All eight seasons have come under Dave Rose, a program record for 20-win seasons by one coach. Stan Watts had seven 20-win seasons.
• Dave Rose earned his 200th career victory with a 74-57 win over San Diego on Jan. 19, 2013. Stan Watts is the only other coach in BYU history with 200-plus wins. Watts won his 200th game during his 12th season at the helm on Feb. 2, 1961, at New Mexico. It was his 329th career game (Watts’ career record was 371-254 in 23 seasons). Rose is in his eighth season and earned win number 200 in his 259th game.
• Tyler Haws reached 1,000 career points when he hit a jumper at the 15:30 mark in the second half at Saint Mary’s. He joins Danny Ainge as the only BYU players to reach 1,000 career points as sophomores and is the 45th Cougar to reach 1,000 points. Haws now has 1,066 points and is 42nd all-time in scoring at BYU.
• BYU has completed four comebacks after trailing at the half this season. The Cougars trailed Utah and San Francisco by nine at the half and won 61-58 and 80-76. BYU trailed Pepperdine by five at the half at home and came back to win 76-51. The Cougars trailed at Pepperdine 31-20 but bounced back in the second half to win 63-61.
• The Cougars have a chance to break team records in steals in a season and steals per game for a season. BYU has 272 steals in 32 games, good for 8.5 per game. The current records of 307 steals (36 games) and 8.5 steals per game were set during the 2009-10 season.
• Tyler Haws hit 14 of 14 from the free throw line at LMU on March 2, his fourth game this season shooting 100 percent from the line while attempting at least 10 free throws, a BYU single-season record. He had been tied with Russell Larson (1993-94) and Ken Roberts (1994-95) for most perfect days from the line (minimum of 10 attempts) in a single season at three. Haws has five such games in his career, also a BYU record, and one ahead of Jimmer Fredette. Danny Ainge, Lee Cummard, Larson and Roberts are tied for third on the career list with three.