Utah's Chris Burgess dunks during game against UNLV at the Huntsman Center on Saturday, January 13, 2001.
Utah's Chris Burgess dunks during game against UNLV at the Huntsman Center on Saturday, January 13, 2001. JOHANNA WORKMAN, Deseret News
By Deseret News

Editor's note: Every Sunday, the Deseret News sports staff takes a look back into our archives_._

Score it Utah 1, UCLA 1.

Two prominent southern California basketball players seriously looking at Utah or UCLA made their decisions.

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Chris Burgess, a 6-foot-10 transfer from Duke, announced that he would play for Rick Majerus at Utah.

Jason Kapono, who had Utah on his short list, decided to stay home and attend UCLA.

Burgess averaged 13.2 points per game in the 2001-02 season. Kapono averaged 16.5 ppg in his four-year career and was a four-time member of the All-Pac-10 first team.

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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess answers a question during an interview while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Photo courtesy Chris Burgess
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Brigham Young University basketball head coach Mark Pope, second from right, poses for a photo with his newly-hired assistant coaches Chris Burgess, Cody Fueger and Nick Robinson, left to right, after a press conference at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Thursday, April 25, 2019. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Utah's Chris Burgess dunks the ball during the game against UNLV at the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah, Saturday, January 13, 2001. Photo/Johanna Workman | JOHANNA WORKMAN, Deseret News
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Chris Burgess, right, of No. 3 ranked Duke, drives against George Mazyck of Missouri, during the first quarter of their semifinal game in the Maui Invitational Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1997, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith) | BOB GALBRAITH, AP
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