San Francisco • A significant earthquake rocked the Bay Area early Thursday morning, giving the BYU basketball team an unexpected jolt at its hotel in downtown San Francisco.
Coach Dave Rose and BYU basketball sports information director Kyle Chilton said they were among the estimated nine million people who felt the 4.4-magnitude earthquake, which was centered east of Berkeley, Calif., along the Hayward fault, one of the most worrisome in the region.
It hit at 2:39 a.m. PST, about 18 hours before the Cougars defeated San Francisco 69-59 in a West Coast Conference game. Rose told Chilton that he was awake at the time and felt it immediately.