Greg Gard decided to make a switch in his starting five, moving Austin Rapp to the bench and sliding true freshman Aleksas Bieliauskas into the vacated role. Rapp has been hot and cold all season, nowhere to be found against BYU, and then having a monster game against Providence, followed by another disappearance against TCU. Gard thought a shake-up might help Rapp and the team. And it immediately worked with a resounding first half.
"Austin’s got to get better. You know, there’s some things there and I thought we would be a little better physically and on the glass and defensively in the paint — and we were.