BYU Basketball: Slow-starting Cougars crush TCU
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The No. 14 BYU Cougars overcame a sluggish start and defeated the TCU Horned Frogs for the 12th straight time on Saturday afternoon.

In a preview of Thursday's first-round conference tournament game, BYU took a 107-77 win at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum to finish regular-season league play with a 13-3 record, 28-4 overall.

TCU fell to 5-11 and 13-18.

The game was meaningless as far as seeding for the MWC tournament was concerned, with BYU locked into a No. 2 seed and the Horned Frogs a No. 7 when the game started, thanks to Colorado State's win over Utah.

That means BYU and TCU will play again Thursday at 7 p.m. MST in a first-round game in Las Vegas.

TCU made its first seven shots and jumped to an 18-4 lead before BYU clawed back behind the play of substitutes Jonathan Tavernari, Michael Loyd Jr. and Charles Abouo.

Tavernari had 16 of his game-high 23 points in the first half.

Jackson Emery added 22 points for BYU and Jimmer Fredette chipped in 18. Charles Abouo had 22 off the bench, including several dunks on fast breaks.

It was the third time BYU has scored more than 100 points this season, and the most ever it has scored against TCU. The previous high was 90 in 1999.

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