PROVO — Another game brought another milestone to Tyler Haws’ great career at BYU.

Early in the first half the senior surpassed Cougar great Michael Smith (2,319 career points) for third place on the program’s career points list. Haws tied Smith at 2,319 points with a 3-pointer and a few minutes later surpassed it with a driving layup.

Should he continue averaging 21.6 points per game, Haws will pass both Danny Ainge (2,467) and Jimmer Fredette (2,599) to become BYU’s career leader in points by year’s end.

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The 6-foot-5 Lone Peak product has averaged double-digits in scoring since entering the program in 2009, and has averaged over 20 points per game in his three years since serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

With his 26 points scored, Haws also secured his 105th game scoring in double figures, tying Fredette for second on the all-time list. It was also Haws’ 61st game scoring over 20 points, which is two short of Fredette, who is third on that list.

No home-cooking

Despite the physical nature of the game, and the fact BYU leads the nation in free-throw attempts per game, the Cougars went nearly 28 minutes with nary one trip to the foul line in Thursday night's loss to the Waves. Around the 12:00 mark of the second half, forward Luke Worthington shot BYU’s first foul shots — converting one of two attempts.

Pepperdine was whistled for its first foul of the game with 2:36 left in the first half.

A lot of BYU’s lack of foul shots stemmed from settling for too many jump shots for large portions of the first half as Pepperdine built an early double-digit lead. Overall the Waves managed to hold the Cougars to a season-low 29 points at the half.

"It was very unusual," said Anson Winder of the lack of free throws. "I think we weren't as aggressive as we should have been, especially to start the game. We were kind of expecting to take the lead automatically and didn't make the plays we should have made to get to the free throw line."

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Kyle Collinsworth was noticeably not himself due to flu-like symptoms throughout and finished the first half with just two points on 1-4 shooting. The junior didn't start the second half in favor of Skyler Halford and was played sparingly en route to just four points on 1-8 shooting for the game.

"He gave us a really good effort, but it's a team game," said BYU Coach Dave Rose of Collinsworth when asked of his health. "It's something every team has to go through and you have to find ways to overcome it."

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