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The competition hasn't been the greatest, but one would be hard-pressed to find a better stretch of offensive basketball for a BYU team than the Cougars have played the last three games in wins over Portland at home and Santa Clara and San Francisco on the road.

The Cougars shot 74.1 percent in the first half and 46.4 percent in the second half (garbage time, mostly) en route to a 99-68 blowout of San Francisco in front of 2,585. BYU has now scored 40 or more points in six-straight halves since losing to Gonzaga 87-80 at the Marriott Center on Dec. 27.

BYU was 11 of 15 from three-point range in the first half.

It was a sight to behold, more impressive than the outing against Chaminade 14 of 18 in first half, because it came in a league game on the road against a much better opponent.

It was a happy coach Dave Rose who spoke to reporters after the game.

"I was just talking to the guys: when you talk about consistency, and you try to get guys to play the right way, the same way, or the way you prepare for, that's pretty good execution," Rose said. "Actually, that's three games in a row that have been where we have been on attack, and we have shared the ball, and we have made extra passes.

And then we have rebounded the ball well. That's a big part of what's happened. If you can get a big defensive rebound and get out, with four ball-handlers in the game who can bring it, that look right now is so different for us.

We have a couple films [playing that way] now, so people will try to stop it. But this weekend, we were good, really good."

The Cougars assisted on 22 of their 33 made baskets and shared the ball as well as they have all season. Tyler Haws had 22, while Chase Fischer added 20 and Anson Winder 17 (all in the first half — more on why in a minute).

"Right now the ball is really moving," Rose said. "Ty is a big part of this, because everybody has a scheme to guard him with a player and a half, sometimes two players. And if that is the case, he should be able to find that odd man out that is free after a pass or two. Ty is not only finding them, but they are hitting the shots.

And then they get a little bit of confidence, and it just becomes contagious. Guys are coming off the bench and having big games. …. There is a lot of room for us to get better defensively. There is a lot of room to improve, but those are two pretty good offensive performances on the road."

When Kyle Collinsworth was double-teamed and found Chase Fischer for a three-pointer, I told my colleagues on press row that if Fischer's shot fell (it did) that it would be Collinsworth's 10th assist, and a triple double.

The official statistician didn't immediately give Collinsworth the assist, then added it a few minutes later. Collinsworth finished with 12 points 12 rebounds and 10 assists, his third triple-double of the season.

"I think that is pretty amazing," Rose said. "He is a really effective player in so many different areas of the game, and he just gets more and more confident in his ability to do that."

Rose said he did some "investigating" and learned that the college record for triple-doubles is four in one season. The coach couldn't remember who did it.

"When you think of it that way, it is even more amazing," Rose said.

The game got chippy in the second half with BYU leading by as many as 35 points, and tempers flared after USF's Derrell Robertson slapped Corbin Kaufusi hard on the wrist while Kaufusi was going up for a layup or dunk.

Robertson was assessed a flagrant foul and he and BYU's Winder were assessed technical fouls.

"Yeah, it was kind of a hard foul and Anson stepped in the middle of it," Rose said. "We have seen that once before, so we will have to address it so it doesn't hurt us. An extra foul is never something you need, especially on the road."

All for now. More later, as BYU improved to 13-4 overall, 3-1 in WCC play with the Bay Area road sweep.