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San Diego • Less than a year after losing to BYU by 58 points at the Marriott Center, the San Diego Toreros got their revenge on Saturday night at Jenny Craig Pavilion.

Double-digit underdogs, the Toreros made 12 3-pointers and got a combined 50 points from Olin Carter III and Cameron Neubauer — players who watched last year's debacle unfold in Provo — in an 88-75 upset of the visiting Cougars.

"That was no fun, was it?" BYU coach Dave Rose said. "It is kind of a habit with this group is we have runs where we lose our composure. We get a little bit ahead of ourselves, we take some quick shots. Defensively we make some mistakes and turn them on, give them confidence."

Spurred by a run in which they made 5 of 6 3-point attempts in the second half, the Toreros outplayed BYU down the stretch to get just their second WCC win, against four defeats. BYU fell to 13-6 overall, 4-2 in WCC play.

"We definitely should have won that game, and there were a lot of things we should have done better, a lot of things we need to fix," said BYU guard TJ Haws, who scored a career-high 27 points. Eric Mika, the only other Cougar in double figures, added 11.

"What really turned them on was some offensive rebounds in the second half," Rose said. "They got a second possession and scored on all three of them. This is a young team, and right now this young team is pretty good at home and doesn't play the same on the road. We gotta get through that."

The Cougars led 60-59 with 8:24 remaining when Mika made one of two free throws, then gave up the lead for good when Juwan Gray followed a missed dunk with a rebound putback. San Diego would not relinquish that lead, because Neubauer scored nine straight points for his team and when Brett Bailey hit a 3-pointer with 3:55 left, the home team led 73-67.

Mika followed with a basket to cut it to four with 3:35 left, but that was the last field goal the Cougars would get until a meaningless basket by Davin Guinn with nine seconds left.

"Give credit to San Diego, they made good shots," Haws said. "But a lot of that is on us as well. We are not in the right places, not aggressive enough, not enough energy. That needs to change."

The Toreros led 34-32 at halftime, but BYU opened the second half on a 12-5 run to get the lead. Carter finished with 30 points and Neubauer added 22 and both made big free throws down the stretch when BYU was sputtering offensively.

"You know, that is a big part of being able to kinda control yourself and your emotions in tight situations," Rose said of BYU's finish. "I just think we will go back and watch the film, but it just seems to me that things speed up, and we just don't slow it down. We don't have a lot of poise and don't play with a lot of confidence, under control, in some of these situations."

The Cougars defeated USD 91-33 last February in Provo two days after edging USD 69-67 in San Diego.

This time, San Diego shot 57 percent in the second half — 16 of 28 — and finished 12 of 21 from 3-point range.

The Cougars committed 14 turnovers and shot just 41.7 percent.

Mika wasn't in foul trouble in the first half, but still scored just two points the first 20 minutes because he was 1 for 4, and also because San Diego double-teamed him almost every time he touched the ball. Nick Emery tied Jimmer Fredette's record for most consecutive games with a 3-pointer, 28, with a trey less than four minutes into the game. But the sophomore guard picked up his second foul contesting a Carter 3-point attempt and spent the last 16 minutes of the first half on the bench. He finished with just eight points.

"It is pretty simple," Rose said. "The pattern of our group is we are a pretty good home team, and then we get out on the road and we get rattled. We get rattled where we don't execute the way we need to execute. We gotta grow through it."

After stellar standout games, sophomore Elijah Bryant got in foul trouble in the first half, like Emery, and struggled in the second. He finished with just five points on 2 of 7 shooting. Mika added 15 rebounds to his 11 points and the Cougars won the battle of the boards, 38-35, but USD had 13 second-chance points and 21 points off turnovers.

"I have been around for a long time, and it is not a new thing with a young, inexperienced team," Rose said. "You look at our guys, and we need a more consistent performance from a larger group of guys when we get out here."

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Storylines

R Olin Carter III scores 30 points and the Toreros avenge a 91-33 loss in Provo last year.

• BYU's TJ Haws scores a career-high 27 points.

• The Cougars make just one field goal the final 3:34 of the game.