It had been a terrible stretch for the BYU women’s basketball team in Wednesday night’s Big 12 battle against Colorado at the Marriott Center. Nothing had worked late in the second quarter as the Buffaloes had turned a 23-23 tie into a 36-25 lead with a 13-2 run.

A Wednesday night trip to the Marriott Center wasn’t easy, but the Buffaloes survived with a 67-66 win against host BYU, led by a season-high 22 points from Nyamer Diew and some timely plays from

Nyamer Diew had a season-high 22 points off the bench to help Colorado hold off BYU 67-66 and hand the Cougars a fifth consecutive loss Wednesday night.

Provo, Utah; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: BYU hosts Colorado after Delaney Gibb scored 21 points in BYU's 81-76 loss to the Utah Utes. The Cougars have gone 6-4 at home. BYU ranks seventh in the Big 12 with 24.

BOTTOM LINE: BYU hosts Colorado after Delaney Gibb scored 21 points in BYU's 81-76 loss to the Utah Utes. The Cougars are 6-4 on their home court. BYU ranks seventh in the Big 12 with 15.1 assists per game led by Gibb averaging 3.9.

BYU basketball coach Kevin Young has preached patience as he learns the college game and tinkers with his lineup in an attempt to get the Cougars competitive in the Big 12

There would be no shortage of help for Saunders against Colorado. While BYU came into Tuesday averaging just 70.3 points per game against Big 12 foes, the Cougars scored 83 against the Buffaloes, with 25 coming from Saunders and eight players adding another 58.

Playing shorthanded for the seventh-straight game, and strapped with foul trouble to boot, the Baylor Bears got a combined 43 points from Miami transfer Norchad Omier and freshman VJ Edgecombe in beating the Utah Utes, 76-61, Saturday afternoon at the Jon Huntsman Center to complete a season series sweep.

A Utah County man stands accused of defrauding dozens of people across Utah, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Funding from the Inflation Reduction Act was allocated to conserve water and protect habitat, but President Trump's executive order put that spending on pause.