Provo • BYU kept visiting Texas Southern winless on Saturday night with a 73-52 victory at the Marriott Center, but it wasn’t as easy as it probably should have been.
Playing uninspired basketball after a week of final exams, the Cougars finally got it together in the second half and won their eighth straight game to improve to 11-2. Texas Southern fell to 0-13 while playing its 13th straight road game and without leading scorer Trae Jefferson, whose father was killed earlier in the week.
Yoeli Childs led BYU with 19 points, all but three coming in the second half, and TJ Haws added 11.