This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2015, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Add another "bad loss" to BYU's shrinking NCAA Tournament resume.

The Cougars were upset 85-82 by Harvard in overtime here at the Stan Sheriff Center, losing leads at the end of regulation and in the five-minute extra session.

The Cougars fell to 7-4 — with losses now to Long Beach State, Utah, Colorado and Harvard — and will return to the court quickly. They will face New Mexico at 9:30 a.m. HST (12:30 p.m. MT) in a loser's bracket game.

"The most important thing now is to get over this and get on to the next game. So hopefully we can get going early," coach Dave Rose said.

Early is not a word BYU does well. The Cougars fell behind 19-3 on Tuesday. They dug out of that hole and had leads in both halves and regulation, but nothing larger than four points.

"That's like the third time in a row where we've had a really slow start on the road," said Rose, who could have been referring to any of the other losses.

The Cougars had two critical turnovers with less than a minute to play in overtime that ultimately killed their chances.

Kyle Collinsworth's dunk with a minute left gave BYU a 82-79 lead.

After two Harvard free throws, Collinsworth tried to dump a pass off in the lane to Kyle Davis, but it was picked off — Collinsworth's seventh turnover to go with 23 points, six rebounds and eight assists.

Harvard made two more free throws to take an 83-82 lead, and Rose called for a play to get the ball to Davis on the low block again. Freshman Nick Emery's pass was too wide, however, and the Cougars failed to get off a shot for the second-straight possession.

'Yeah, that's the play we wanted," Rose said. "That's where we wanted the ball. It worked two or three times on the other side. So we tried it again, and the pass was just a little bit out of reach. Kyle had good position. We get the ball right there and convert, and that's a big play for us."

Press row is at the base line on that end of the court, so I got a pretty good look at the play. Davis was held a bit and couldn't extend for the ball; No chance an official is going to call that, though. Not with less than 10 seconds left in a one-point game.

The Cougars forced a held ball with 4.2 seconds left after that, but the possession arrow favored Harvard.

"The worse turnovers are the ones where you don't get a shot off," Rose said. "We have to be better in our execution … You can go back and find a whole bunch of different things we needed to do differently at the end of the game."

Monday, Rose told me that BYU recruited Brighton High's Corbin Miller because he was an "elite scorer" who could shoot well from anywhere. Miller showed that on Tuesday for Harvard, making 5 of 7 3-pointers.

"He can shoot," Collinsworth said. "We knew that. We gave him too many open looks. A shooter like him, when he's open, he's going to make them."

Kyle Davis, who had his sixth double-double with 23 points and 16 rebounds, said he was a senior at Alta High when Miller was a junior at Brighton and the Cougars knew the guard could light it up if given the chance.

"Props to him. He played really well tonight," Davis said.

Miller said for him it wasn't a matter of sticking it to his hometown team. He was more concerned about getting out of a mild shooting slump.

"BYU's a great program, a great school," he said. "In the end, I just felt like Harvard was the best fit for me, and I wanted to play for coach [Tommy] Amaker."

Miller's brother, Brandon, recently announced that he is leaving the University of Utah. Corbin said his brother hasn't decided where he intends to play next.