Provo, UT (SportsNetwork. Custom Authentic Baseball Jerseys .com) - West Coast Conference play gets underway for a pair of teams on Saturday, as the eighth-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs come calling on the BYU Cougars. Gonzaga is once again off to a tremendous start, the team winning 11 of its first 12 games, including signature victories over Georgia (88-76), St. Johns (73-66) and UCLA (87-74). The Bulldogs lone setback came in a 66-63 overtime decision at Arizona on Dec. 6, but they have bounced back to win four in a row. Their most recent outing took place last Saturday at home, as they knocked off Cal Poly in a 63-50 final. Gonzaga is 15-0 in West Coast Conference openers under Mark Few, and the team has won 18 straight league lid lifters in all, with the last loss coming during the 1995-96 season. BYU is off to a solid start as well, the club claiming victory in 10 of its first 13 bouts. Since suffering a 65-61 defeat at the hands of in-state rival Utah on Dec. 10, the Cougars have reeled off three straight wins, including a 79-77 verdict versus Stanford, and a 77-71 overtime decision against UMass on Tuesday. Both wins came at home, where BYU is 6-1 this season. Gonzaga is 6-3 in the series with BYU, and it will be trying to avenge a 73-65 loss the last time the teams met at the Marriott Center. Overall, the Bulldogs are 1-2 in Provo. Kevin Pangos hit four 3-pointers and combined with Przemek Karnowski for more than half of Gonzagas entire point total in last weeks win over Cal Poly. Both finished with 16 points, which was more than double what any other player for the Bulldogs had, as the team shot 45.7 percent from the field, but was outscored in the paint (32-26). Fortunately, the Mustangs were successful on fewer than 40 percent of their total shots, and they were outscored at the foul line, 16-5. Gonzaga boasts five double-digit scorers on the season, led by Kyle Wiltjer and his 16.8 ppg. The Bulldogs net 83.7 ppg, which ranked as the 10th-best scoring average in the country coming into the week, while their average yield of 60 ppg tied for 55th. The Zags are hitting an eye-popping 53.6 percent of their field goal attempts, which was second-best in the nation, while its .396 3-point FG percentage ranked 33rd. Foes are shooting just 38.6 percent from the floor, which includes a 31.4 percent showing from beyond the arc, and the Bulldogs are +10.8 in rebounding margin (eighth-best nationally) and +2.3 in turnover differential. BYU too has enjoyed incredible offensive success this season, the team ranking first in the country with a scoring average of 88 ppg. The Cougars are shooting 47.1 percent from the field, knocking down 39.3 percent of their long-range launches, and converting 75.7 percent of their free throws. They also own favorable margins in both rebounding (+6.2) and turnovers (+2.4). BYU does however, permit an average of 74.2 ppg. Tyler Haws entered the week ranked second in the country in scoring, but he has slipped a few notches and now nets 22.3 ppg. Three others are averaging double figures in the scoring column for the Cougars as well. Haws (2-of-9, four points) had an off night in the recent clash with UMass, but his teammates picked him up as BYU won its 10th game of the season. Anson Winder came off the bench to post a career-high 25 points, and Kyle Collinsworth tacked on 18 to go with a season-high 15 rebounds. Overall, the Cougars shot just 39 percent from the field, missing 16 of their 21 3-point tries along the way. Fortunately, a 26-of-32 performance at the charity stripe helped alleviate some of the pressure as the Minutemen converted 45.8 percent of their total shots. 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Playing the first two tournament games close to home was a goal all year, and Wisconsin players fed off the energy to extinguish any upset hopes of 15th-seeded American. Ben Brust scored 17 points and the No. 2 seed devastated the Eagles with a 22-5 run to close the first half in a 75-35 victory Thursday in Milwaukee, barely 90 minutes from their campus in Madison. No. 2 seed Wisconsin (27-7) recovered from a brief first-half rut as the Eagles (20-13), champions of the Patriot League, built a seven-point lead with their Princeton-style offence. "It was good to get the building loud," Brust said. "I said, Hey, theyre up. We better wake up." Trailing 17-10 about midway through the first half, the Badgers took away the backdoor cuts, forced turnovers and otherwise flustered American into 4-of-26 shooting over the final 29 minutes. One field-goal drought lasted nearly 14 minutes. "Thats pretty crazy," guard Josh Gasser said. "That must mean you did something well." The Eagles dont encounter the type of execution and athleticism displayed by Wisconsin in the Patriot League. "Theyre a No. 2 seed for a reason," coach Mike Brennan said. After Wisconsin was ousted in the first round last year as a fifth seed, Brust made sure his senior season didnt end the same way. He attacked the glass for buckets on back-to-back possessions, ending with a 3-point play to give Wisconsin a 23-20 lead. The rout was on. The Badgers hit 57 per cent of their shots in the second half on the way to their largest margin of victory in the schools 44 NCAA post-season games. John Schoof and Tony Wroblicky each had 11 points for American. "We were excited. We were playing well. We were making them take tough shotts," said Wroblicky. Custom Pittsburgh Pirates Nike Jerseys. "We were scoring, then we kind of hit a rut." Schoof hit two early 3s and Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year Tony Wroblicky proved to be handful on the offensive end to help the Eagles build a surprising lead. But this year, offence isnt as much of a problem for the Badgers, even with leading scorer Frank Kaminsky on the bench with foul trouble at the end of the first half. Anyone on the floor can score. On Thursday, it was Brust. After hitting two 3s earlier in the half, Brust drove the lane and pumped his fist after getting a bucket and drawing a foul. Traevon Jackson later added a 3. Gasser posted up and got fouled, walking away with an angry look before returning to the line to hit two foul shots. By then it was 28-22 Wisconsin, and Jackson raised his arms to implore the crowd to get loud. It was basically over. American opened the second half shooting 1 of 11, and coach Bo Ryan started going to his backups with 5 minutes left and the Badgers up 38. The reserves didnt waste what might be their only chance in the tourney floor time. "Right away, when a couple guys took shots, they knew right were the camera was," Ryan joked. Jackson finished with a game-high 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting, while Sam Dekker finished with 11. Florida Gulf Coasts NCAA tournament run last year as a No. 15 seed has given all underdogs hope. And for a while in the first half, American was on a similar roll. But Ryan was confident his team could handle the Princeton offence, a scheme the Badgers had faced successfully when playing Northwestern in recent years under Bill Carmody. Ryan said he was even awoken by a few nightmares last night of his team getting beat on backdoor cuts. They figured it out and earned another game in friendly surroundings. "We couldnt score," Brennan said. "They stopped us stone cold." ' ' '