NCAAM teams
GCU

56

15-7
Final
UVU

68

16-6
RecapBox Score
1 2 T
GCU 24 32 56
UVU 30 38 68
UCCU Center, Orem
Associated Press 6y

Utah Valley beats Grand Canyon 68-56

Men's College Basketball, Utah Valley Wolverines, Grand Canyon Antelopes

OREM, Utah -- Akolda Manyang scored 14 points and blocked two shots, Conner Toolson added 12 points with three steals, and Utah Valley beat Grand Canyon 68-56 on Saturday to take possession of second place in the Western Athletic Conference and win its 10th straight at home.

Kenneth Ogbe scored 10 points for the Wolverines (16-6, 5-1), who scored 21 points off of 16 Antelopes' turnovers, but were outrebounded 44-28.

The Antelopes rallied and Casey Benson's 3 tied it at 40, but Jake Toolson's layup sparked a 16-5 run and Utah Valley led 60-47 with 4:04 to play while Grand Canyon went without a field goal for more than six minutes. Grand Canyon closed to 64-52 on Alessandro Lever's 3 with 2:34 showing, but got no closer than 10 from there.

Utah Valley led 30-24 at halftime after shooting 36 percent from the field to the Antelopes' 33 percent.

Lever scored 22 points and Oscar Frayer added 11 for Grand Canyon (15-7, 4-2), which saw its three-game win streak end.

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