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Utah 74, Weber State 64
12/20/2008 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 20, 2008
Recap | Box Score | Notes | Game Action 
Utah Head Coach Jim Boylen:
On knocking down more 3's than the last three games:
"They're the same shots we got against Cal. They're the same shots we got against Idaho State. They're the same shots we got [at Oklahoma]. I keep saying that, we have to make open looks for our offense to work.
"I judge our offense on, are we getting open shots for the right guys. We've been getting open shots for the right guys ... we'll take nine threes. If we can make nine, 10, 11 threes, we have a good chance of winning the game."
On keeping the lead at the end:
"We hung in there pretty good. What you have to do when a team makes a run is play defense, and I think we came up with some big steals, some big plays, some big stops when we needed it, and then our offense came around."
Sophomore guard Carlon Brown:
"I just wanted to come out and be aggressive. I wanted to try and get to the rack, try to get easy buckets, try to get lay-ups, and try to, you know, draw other men to come to me so I could dish it out to my teammates. Tonight, they didn't really come off my teammates, so I got a lot of lay-ups and free throws."
Senior guard Tyler Kepkay:
"I just started playing how the defense played me. Coach started running stuff for me, and my teammates were running great screens and helping me get open and our spacing was great so it was just, hit the shot, basically."
"Once you hit a couple, I mean of course. Whenever someone gets going on our team and hits a couple of shots ... as a team, we're usually, 'OK we have to find this guy.' I just played, and it just happened that I was hitting shots and hit them at crucial times. That's just kind of the way it went tonight."
"We really felt that we had to win, no matter what, so I think we were pretty calm and collected through that time when it got kind of close, and we kept our composure, because we knew we had to win this game."
Weber State coach Randy Rahe
On his team's second-half comeback:
"We guarded a lot harder, rebounded a little better. I thought we came all the way back, put ourselves in position to win. We had three possessions where we didn't share the ball well. We tried to drive the ball too deep to the rim, where if we would have kicked it out we had some decent looks."
"The last three minutes of the game it was anyone's game. I'm really pleased with how the kids really played their tails off."
On the final stretch of the game:
"I thought we turned the ball over at some crucial times. You can't do that on the road against a team like this. They've got seniors, they're veterans. You got to play flawlessly down the stretch. They made plays and we didn't."
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