the toughest ticket on this friday night in las vegas is inside the thomas and mack center it is packed tonight two of the best teams in the country on the floor the same night playing teams that are playing their best basketball of the year in march it is byu first up against new mexico and abuela wins a rebound fight and there's for that's forget at his best how great he goes to his left if kendall williams and philip mcdonald play well and williams of freshman guard had a big game against byu and provo last week fernand hits the two new mexico beat byu at the pit in albuquerque that's when davies was still playing for byu as far as the senior anchors of this byu team step back again you cannot give for that any space because that step back can be lethal that that can be it is semi transition basket not a good job by byu getting set in the zone the best way to beat his own beat it down the floor and attack it and fernan again said okay no no momentum for you new mexico new mexico is one of the highest in the second highest score in the mountain and byu's first so they're they're fine with this hearts off on the assist from jimmy fernandez so tony snell now you see him he's the one on fredette and fernette got it over you boy you're not going to get a more open shot than that one fredette dead 17 in the first 11 and a half minutes and forget just absolute silence of defending that much shorter guy on ferdinand thinking very quick but you see for that is over him so he's able to force that shot over him and make it and four different guys have guarded jimmy for debt in this game already and none of them have stopped him jimmy ford and we have seen so much spectacular play from him the year he would have gone with kawhi leonard or someone who played a little defense another very thinly disguised shot but for them who now has 26. i didn't like that shot gary can't stop him you've got to stop for that you let him get inside like that he has so many ways to finish one part of jackson's emery's game it's been off just a little bit this year not been quite as good a three-ball shooter but you know what he's got a teammate that's made up for him come on now i mean come on that's for sure they're gonna keep guarding him and guarding him but he's going to keep jane so for that takes gary this is ridiculous well if you haven't seen the mountain west this year you might have thought i was kidney at the beginning you're a believer now aren't you you better be and you better believe in that guy 33 points without going to the foul line once to byu yesterday with some success took the game of the final minute loose ball for net and looking for dead [Applause] of course both graduate collinsworth the third guard goes on a mission next year and fournette will get the add-on from emery that's 39 for ferdinand daniel by the seventh in the last minute of the first half but it's pretty much been six guys but that guy's been out there and jimmy fernett is talking about records tonight so now byu can extend here fernette's got a head of steam [Applause] and fernand has 44 and still hasn't been to the foul loss by a wide margin the freshman of the year ford that's his range no question you seen that enough you're not surprised they don't have that part of it is not a guy you can throw the ball to make a basket why not well we're gonna see history tonight i think in a moment jimmy farnette has just become the all-time leading scorer in byu history and i think it's a fairly good chance he's going to get the first 50-point game of his career and after 49 points he finally gets to the foul line for the first time and he has the first 50-point game of an astounding career still alive jamal fenton turned it over again trying to dribble into the zone and for that adds 52 and byu and san diego state now both have 30 wins counting this one tonight for byu they're the lucky ones they get to touch jimmer and byu will play for the mountain west conference championship jimmer burnett will get one more shot at it they'll be playing for the title they're going to the tournament no matter what but they'll play for a championship tomorrow