#2/2 Men's Basketball Books Ticket to Big 12 Title Game

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Junior guard Emanuel Sharp scored 26 points, graduate guard LJ Cryer had 20, and the #2/2 University of Houston Men's Basketball program stifled #17/18 (4) BYU in a 74-54 victory Friday night that moved the Cougars into the Big 12 Tournament championship game for the second consecutive season inside the T-Mobile Center.

Junior guard Milos Uzan added 14 points and graduate guard Mylik Wilson pulled down 13 rebounds, helping the tournament's top seed jump to a big early lead and roll into Saturday night's matchup with rv/#24 (3) Arizona on a 12-game win streak.

Houston (29-4) played without graduate forward J'Wan Roberts, its leading rebounder, after he sprained his ankle early in the second half of the Cougars' quarterfinal win over Colorado. Roberts watched from the bench with his right foot in a walking boot.

He got to watch quite a defensive show by the nation's No. 1 team in defensive efficiency.

Houston forced BYU to miss its first nine shots, including seven from beyond the arc, where coach Kevin Young's team had set a Big 12 Tournament record with 18 made 3s on its way to 96 points in a Thursday Quarterfinal win over Iowa State. That nearly seven-minute lull allowed Houston to roar to a 15-0 lead that it spent the rest of the game protecting.

In addition to their second straight Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Title Game appearance, the Cougars will also compete in their seventh consecutive conference tournament title game with its final five seasons in the American Athletic Conference as well.

BYU trimmed its 40-21 halftime deficit to 13 midway through the second half but never threatened to come all the way back.

Keba Keita had 14 points and 12 rebounds for BYU. Dawson Baker scored 11 points and Richie Saunders had 10
Sharp converted a 4-point play with 13:40 left in the first half to give Houston its 15-0 lead.

UP NEXT
• The Cougars advance to the Title Game for the second-straight season to face rv/#24 (3) Arizona at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 15, inside T-Mobile Center.
• Fans can watch that game on ESPN with Jon Sciambi, Fran Fraschilla and Kris Budden calling. The game can be heard on 950 AM KPRC and the Varsity Network app with Jeremy Branham calling.

SATURDAY PREGAME ACTIVITIES
• The team will depart the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center (1 East Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO 64108) for the arena around 2:30 p.m., Saturday. Fans are invited to send the team off.

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