People don’t get to rule just because they are the loudest or the most heavily armed.
(Niki Chan Wylie | Special to The Tribune) A crowd gathers at a candlelight vigil for democracy at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building on Jan. 6, 2022.
Since the beginning of the American experiment in self-government, we all have been worried about what Founding Father John Adams and French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville called “the tyranny of the majority.”
That’s the idea that, in a pure democracy, whichever leader or faction can muster the most votes will make and enforce the laws, and those on the losing end have no further say. It could mean that the winners would slaughter the losers, banish them or seize their property as the spoils of war.
Worry about the excesses of democracy led the founding generation and those afterward to come up with a mumblety-peg arrangement of government that, even with democratic elections at its base, divides actual power among enough layers and levels that someone would have to win an awful lot of elections to take control of any society.
Our system at least claims to put some things beyond the reach of majority votes. Freedom of religion and speech, due process of law, not having your property confiscated without fair payment, stuff like that, isn’t dependent, at least in theory, on who won the last election.
In the 20th century the concept of a “minority” became less about the losing side in an election and more about varieties of human beings who were denied the rights and privileges of personhood due to skin color, religious heritage or sexuality. We’ve made a lot of progress toward the total inclusion of everyone, at least before the law, enough that it is sometimes seen as advantageous to claim minority status for yourself in order to get what you want.
Hence things like the Senate filibuster, the parliamentary technique that allows a minority to frustrate the will of the majority by stopping legislation from moving forward unless it wins the support of at least 60 of the 100 senators. Or even the existence of the Senate itself, where the two-senator-per-state rule means senators representing a minority of the people — states with more cows than people — can regularly outvote those who hold the brief of a much greater majority.
When such worthies as Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee defends the filibuster against the charge that it empowers the minority over the majority, he wonders what your problem is. Isn’t America all about defending the rights of the minority?
Not that kind of minority.
If a bare majority of senators had the power to pass, say, a new federal voting rights act, or to raise taxes on the rich, or to adopt the Green New Deal, that would not be denying a minority its rights. Everyone who lost that argument could still speak and write and go to church and buy property and be secure from unlawful arrests or unwarranted searches and seizures. And they could still vote.
Between the undemocratic nature of the Senate and the skill of Republicans to gerrymander House districts to give majority power to a minority of voters, America is very much moving to a position where we are seeing a superiority, if not total tyranny, of the minority.
And when the political perversion of our system isn’t full or fast enough, there’s always the threat of armed violence to tip the balance.
The mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol a year ago Thursday, along with the armed hooligans who have threatened lawful legislative assemblies in Michigan, Oregon and elsewhere, are the claims of a minority of Americans to hold power over the majority just because they are louder and meaner and more violent.
They have no claim that their rights of speech, religion, peaceable assembly, property, due process and voting are under threat because The Former Guy didn’t win the 2020 election or because people who don’t look like them have an equal chance to register and vote. It’s all no more than a massive, and potentially deadly, temper tantrum thrown by people who don’t really care if it is a majority or a minority that rules, just as long as it’s them in charge.
Our democracy, our republic, our constitutional protections for minorities and for each individual, are all under threat because the idea of “minority” is being wrongly shifted from those whose basic rights need protection to those who think they are specially entitled to rule due to skin color, heritage or possession of the most semi-automatic weapons.
Our constitutional balance can work if we hew to the principles of universal voting rights, fair election districts, majority rule with firm Bill of Rights protections for each individual. That way, it will matter who wins an election, but not matter so much that there will be a need for those who lose to rise up violently. Because they will still be around to vote in the next election.
George Pyle, reading The New York Times at The Rose Establishment.
George Pyle, opinion editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, has voted for a great many losing candidates in his time. It doesn’t discourage him at all.
gpyle@sltrib.com
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We continue to encourage Utahns to get vaccinated and take precautions to keep themselves and those around them healthy without overwhelming our hospitals.”"},{"_id":"62G5HOYA5RAGBOBZZI4KQB7AKU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641586292996,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The Salt Lake County Health Department’s news release notes that the purpose of the health order is to protect the public and keep critical industries staffed, “not to hold someone criminally liable.” It urged business owners and other operators of public spaces to help enforce the mandate."},{"_id":"6CHSRKADK5AUHCFLC4SZIX4GBQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641576441389,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, a Democrat, also signed off on Dunn’s mandate. In a statement Friday, the mayor noted COVID-19 infections are at an all-time high in the county. She called on elected officials, community leaders and businesses to encourage residents to get vaccinated, boosted and don masks."},{"_id":"WK2TPDTVL5GADPSBYZW4YUSDMQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641576441390,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“While it is encouraging that — thanks to vaccination — we don’t expect the general population to see as severe an illness as before,” Wilson wrote, “the rapid increase in total cases ... is putting tremendous strain on our hospital system.”"},{"_id":"UPITRBYUCJEDPDBMEOBUSW6COE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641519402229,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"On Thursday, Summit County announced its own mask mandate for all public buildings until Feb. 21."},{"_id":"7A6PQIRFKBHORGKRCY2ALKKMWU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641578232191,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"In her letter to the Salt Lake County Council, Mendenhall said a countywide mandate would offer more protection than a requirement in Salt Lake City alone."},{"_id":"SB2OZR65KBHKDPFVFHZ7IG5BM4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641578232192,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“Please do all in your power to protect our residents, our health care and front-line workers, and keep schools and businesses open by temporarily requiring masks in public spaces countywide,” the mayor wrote. “We all want a return to normal, and keeping as many people out of the hospital as possible is a very simple way to help us get there.”"},{"_id":"NNKVTPYEFBFTXNU6A6LGAIY3HI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641596496140,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"— Tribune reporter Jordan Miller contributed to this story."},{"_id":"SFUCVFUVZFE57I57GTXHUDXMYM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641519402228,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"
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It may well be that only 1 in 10 cases is counted now."},{"_id":"YQOOYMC5ORGPHJMLUP7HOLTQYM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779724,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Dr. Michelle Hofmann, deputy director of the Utah Department of Health, expects daily case counts to reach about 12,000 a day in Utah by month’s end — an estimate that seems reasonable but somewhat conservative to me."},{"_id":"NDAZTAIK5RBGRPP36EJRMYI4RA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779725,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"If you look at what’s happening on the East Coast, those states are currently getting about 3,000 coronavirus cases a day per million residents on average, with spikes up to 5,000 or 6,000 on good testing days. Those states have more vaccination immunity than Utah but generally less history of previous infection. Have those states peaked? 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There haven’t really been conclusive apples-to-apples studies on omicron sensitivity across these various tests."},{"_id":"RONDDHHHWBA73DTATSS2WNVEZU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779741,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"But there are things we do know about the at-home tests. First, at-home tests have been shown to have disappointing reliability in the early days of infection — especially before symptoms show up. In one study of 30 people who were being tested by both PCR and rapid daily for their jobs, the rapid test didn’t test positive until one or two days after the PCR test did. Those people were transmitting the virus in the gap during the time between the two tests."},{"_id":"XJ5P2WMYSBBLDLBJ7ZSLJ4LUDY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779742,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Many of the leading manufacturers of at-home COVID tests report that their tests worked identically in identifying omicron cases to delta cases — picking up positives about 85% of the the time compared to PCR, just as they did before. However, the Food and Drug Administration’s data suggested that the at-home tests “may have reduced sensitivity” to omicron. Australian researchers found comparable results, and the FDA hasn’t released its data."},{"_id":"OA55LWNTWBD5NKPZZOLJ5E2YSQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779743,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"We also have pretty good data that says PCR tests are more effective more quickly with throat and saliva samples than nasal ones with omicron — perhaps a function of where it’s most likely to reproduce. Most of the at-home tests still ask you to swab just your nose. And despite the research, the FDA has asked people to still follow the nose directions, because they don’t have any data on how the tests work with the other samples. I’ve talked before about how I wish the FDA would adopt the clear direction of scientific studies earlier, and this is one such example, though I understand that it’s tricky to do with the multiples of tests out there."},{"_id":"O36CVL2JWFDYXJQGBDU6Z6GQ4M","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779744,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"What would my advice be in getting tested? First, if the situation is mission critical, it’s still best to do a PCR test at a testing facility, a list of which you can find at coronavirus.utah.gov. Right now, many of those facilities are experiencing delays in both appointment and turnaround times, so don’t be afraid to call around and ask what the current status is at each location to get results as quickly as possible."},{"_id":"6JQ3Y7Y6ZVERPIGP3BJM5B2MKI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779745,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"One option that cuts off the appointment-scheduling wait is Intermountain Healthcare’s self-serve tests. Essentially, you pick up the PCR test, swab yourself at your home or in your car, then drop off the sample at an Intermountain facility. Intermountain then emails you the results. Those results still may take over 24 hours to receive, but it may be the quickest or most convenient option for people who can’t make an appointment work."},{"_id":"PYCDZZHUVNCZDCM7QQE5OGOPPA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779746,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"If results will just take too long on those tests, then rapid tests may be your only choice. Those have been difficult to find recently."},{"_id":"2SF2K6RYZZC3JAGDSVDVVFL3XI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779747,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Online product trackers like NowInStock track when online retailers have various tests in stock to ship to your door. I recommend watching that site and stocking a couple of them in advance of getting sick. Then you’ll have the tests when you need them."},{"_id":"6MZCF555DNCAHOHON56QL33SKQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779748,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"What if you can’t wait for them to be shipped? I recommend going to the websites of big retailers like Walmart, Target and CVS to see what stores have which tests in stock on shelves. As of this writing, Walmart and Target had no tests in stock, and CVS didn’t have any tests available close to me in Salt Lake City — but if I drove out to their West Valley City or West Jordan locations, they had them on shelves."},{"_id":"KTWVQDUGWVCTBHGN4LOSH5U65A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1641504779749,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Of course, in-store stock tracking is never perfect, and please be nice to the employees at pharmacies, retail stores and testing facilities if they aren’t able to meet your needs. 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In Thursday’s speech, he cut through it all like a blowtorch through butter, calling out “the former president” — he never used the Florida retiree’s name — for weaving “a web of lies.”","type":"text"},{"content":"“He’s done so,” said Biden, “because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest ... and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution. He can’t accept he lost.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Some of us needed that. One suspects the president did, too.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s not that Biden said anything we had not heard before. But we’ve heard it from pundits. The relief felt on Thursday lay in the fact that the president was the one saying it, that he brought to bear the authority and prestige of his office to speak the truth bluntly and without equivocation.","type":"text"},{"content":"“You can’t love your country only when you win,” he scolded. And there was an urge, as when the preacher gets going good in a Black Baptist church, to tap your foot and say, “Amen.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Yet, invigorating as it was to hear the president take a rhetorical claw hammer to the ex-president and his enablers, the speech was also sobering. “We are,” Biden said, “in a battle for the soul of America,” facing an “inflection point” in our national life and called upon to answer a question: “What kind of nation are we going to be?”","type":"text"},{"content":"That this even bears asking reflects the fact that American democracy is in mortal peril. And when you consider how quickly — we’re talking about five years — that assessment has risen from fringe fear to mainstream consensus, you get a chilling sense of the speed at which events are moving.","type":"text"},{"content":"“What kind of nation are we going to be?”","type":"text"},{"content":"For generations, the answer was a given. We were a nation of laws. A nation of democratic principles. A nation that knew its greatness sprang from its goodness. And most of all, a nation that aspired. Meaning that, even when — as frequently happened — America failed its lofty ideals, it at least had ideals to fail.","type":"text"},{"content":"If that was the answer not so long ago, things have since changed. Now a headline in The New Yorker asks, “Is A Civil War Ahead?” and what’s remarkable is that it’s not remarkable at all, that it accurately reflects the zeitgeist.","type":"text"},{"content":"What kind of nation are we going to be?","type":"text"},{"content":"For most of us, the answer would be the same as that given by generations before us. But the point of this anniversary and of Biden’s speech, is that last year, Republicans gave another answer, and it was starkly at odds with our aspirational ideals. They showed us what kind of nation they want us to be.","type":"text"},{"content":"Heaven help us if they get the final word.","type":"text"},{"type":"image"},{"content":"Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. lpitts@miamiherald.com","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Leonard Pitts | The Miami Herald"}]},"display_date":"2022-01-09T13:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Leonard Pitts: What kind of nation are we going to be?"},"last_updated_date":"2022-01-09T13:00:01.336Z","promo_items":{"basic":{"caption":"(Doug Mills | The New York Times)nnPresident Joe Biden speaks in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan 6, 2022, marking one year since the deadly assault on the Capitol. 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Main St., Salt Lake City.","type":"text"},{"content":"The musical, the first by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, combines two classic Greek tales: Orpheus and his bride Eurydice, and the underworld king Hades and his wife Persephone. Hermes, the messenger of the gods, acts as narrator.","type":"text"},{"content":"Mitchell developed the musical with its director, Rachel Chavkin. It’s the first Broadway musical in a decade written by a sole woman, and the fourth time that’s happened in Broadway history.","type":"text"},{"content":"“Hadestown” won eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical and awards for Mitchell’s score, Chavkin’s direction and the supporting performance by stage legend André de Shields as Hermes. 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Spencer Cox.","type":"text"},{"content":"COVID-19. Drought. Pandemic. Fires. Racism. Coronavirus. Air pollution. Homelessness. Did we mention that rapidly spreading disease?","type":"text"},{"content":"All of those problems predated Cox’s inauguration early last January, and it would be too much to expect that most of them will be fully solved by whatever year he leaves office.","type":"text"},{"content":"But it is high time our governor — elected with nearly 64% of the vote and riding an approval rating nearly as high — started throwing his political weight around a little and pushing the state, its agencies, its Legislature and the community as a whole to more actively engage our problems, pushing back against those, in politics and out, who are far too attached to a backward-looking status quo.","type":"text"},{"content":"There are many problems that require bold executive leadership, but two that must come to the top of the list. One is properly called a public health and social crisis. The other is merely existential.","type":"text"},{"content":"Right now the most crucial call for leadership, for the exercise of some raw political power, is the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Cox is saying many of the right things — mostly urging everyone to get vaccinated — he has been far too timid in rousing his constituents and his party to action.","type":"text"},{"content":"Most of the sentiment from members of the Utah Legislature and other political activists has been to engage in magical thinking, to set a totally artificial endpoint for the pandemic and, once that date had passed, to stand down from mask requirements and oppose vaccine mandates.","type":"text"},{"content":"Yes, if Cox had vetoed the Legislature’s foolish pandemic “endgame” bill, that veto probably would have been overridden. But he should have vetoed it all the same, with a stinging message that he was not going to fail in his duties even if lawmakers were eager to shirk theirs.","type":"text"},{"content":"Case counts in Utah are skyrocketing. Deaths are no longer limited to the aged or those with significant pre-existing conditions. Hospitals are full, procedures are being cancelled, beds can’t be made available to patients because so many nurses and other providers are themselves out sick. People in charge of providing health care, including those at the state-owned University of Utah Health, are pleading with everyone to get their full battery of vaccinations as the only possible way out of the problem.","type":"text"},{"content":"Businesses and schools are likely to close, not because of any government order, but because there won’t be enough staff, students or customers to make things run.","type":"text"},{"content":"Cox’s contribution has been mealy-mouthed at best.","type":"text"},{"content":"“If, for whatever reason, you have been putting off getting vaccinated or boosted, now is the time,” Cox said.","type":"text"},{"content":"“For whatever reason?” There are no reasons to put off getting vaccinated and boosted, and it is up to the governor to say so.","type":"text"},{"content":"Rather than give up his weekly COVID briefings, Cox should be out there every day, on TV, at clinics, at schools, not just asking people to pretty please do the right thing but demanding it, sending his lawyers off to find something, anything, that would stand up as a necessary executive order in a time of crisis and double-dog dare the Legislature to get in his way.","type":"text"},{"content":"The governor should also be out on the hustings pushing Utahns away from the way things are, which is doomed, and toward the way they should be, which could be a very bright future indeed. If, that is, our leaders would help us abandon our affection for fossil fuels and take full advantage of our state’s potential as a hub of renewable energy and a sustainable recreation-based economy.","type":"text"},{"content":"Cox has done none of that. Instead, he talks up a continuation of the destructive path we are already on, supporting rail projects dedicated to drilling for more fossil fuels and pipelines that will carry water from one dry patch to another.","type":"text"},{"content":"The governor sits upon the votes of 918,754 Utahns. Cox is affable, good on TV, uses a self-depreciating sense of humor to his advantage. He has three more years before he has to face the voters again and, even then, with no Utah Democratic Party to speak of and the power of incumbency on his side, there is very little chance that Cox won’t cruise to re-election no matter what happens between now and 2024.","type":"text"},{"content":"That is a balance of political capital that should embolden this governor, any governor, to move beyond posturing, to become dissatisfied with being a mere manager, to risk making a few enemies and disenchanting a few big-money donors, and really lead.","type":"text"},{"content":"Constitutionally, the Legislature makes the laws and spends the money. But, also constitutionally, Cox’s constituency is the entire state. No single member of the Legislature can claim that.","type":"text"},{"content":"Each lawmaker gets his or her job based on the ballots of around 15,000 (in the House) or 30,000 (in the Senate) people. Most districts are slanted so far Republican or (in a very few cases) Democratic that re-election is assured as long as nobody rocks the boat too much. Campaigning is less about wooing voters than about raising money.","type":"text"},{"content":"The great majority of Utah voters probably can’t even tell you who their senator or representative is.","type":"text"},{"content":"Most of us, though, know who our governor is. If he were to go over the heads of the legislators and rally the people to rise to their better natures — which isn’t all that different from their real long-term self-interests — he, and we, would all be looking at a much brighter future.","type":"text"}],"credits":{"by":[{"name":"The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board"}]},"display_date":"2022-01-09T13:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"It is time for Utah Gov. 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I got lazy and missed a boxout.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Donovan Mitchell had been in the middle of blasting the Utah Jazz collectively for Saturday night’s 125-113 loss to the Indiana Pacers when he suddenly shifted gears and used his own failures and shortcomings as a microcosm of the team’s latest disappointment.","type":"text"},{"content":"One night after the Jazz generated feel-good vibes in Toronto by taking the fight to the Raptors in spite of sitting out all five starters and eight rotation players in total, they squandered the momentum with a listless, passive performance at Gainbridge Fieldhouse against a Pacers team that came in as losers of six games in a row.","type":"text"},{"content":"Having duly acknowledged his own errors and shouldered his share of the blame, Mitchell then reverted back to the team-wide critique, issuing an urgent warning that, should the Jazz fail to start putting forth more consistent effort and focus, they are doomed to come up short of their ultimate goal yet again.","type":"text"},{"content":"“Honestly, we did it to ourselves. That’s a winnable game for us. We shot ourselves in the foot with a few different things,” he said. “… This is a point where, if we want to be a championship team, we’ve got to do it every [expletive] night, and we didn’t do it tonight.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Offensively, the Jazz were solid, if not quite incendiary. Mitchell had some dominant stretches, to the tune of 36 points and nine assists. Bojan Bogdanovic’s midrange post-up bully-ball sparked a third-quarter resurgence, as he finished with 21 points and six rebounds. And Jordan Clarkson rattled off nine points in a row in the fourth, keeping the Jazz lingering within arm’s length of the lead, en route to an 18-point night.","type":"text"},{"content":"Problem was, with Rudy Gobert still sidelined by the COVID-19 health and safety protocol, Utah was fairly abysmal on defense.","type":"text"},{"content":"Indiana shot 55% from the field and drilled 14 of 29 from 3-point range. The Pacers also racked up 32 free-throw attempts. Meanwhile, Domantas Sabonis got one open close-range look after another, and amassed a career-high 42 points on 18-for-22 shooting as a result.","type":"text"},{"content":"“We gotta be more aggressive defensively. This is not who we are — a lot of easy buckets [allowed], especially for Sabonis early on,” said Bogdanovic. “Our effort has gotta be better all across the board. Bad loss, bad loss for us.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Coach Quin Snyder noted that the Jazz “tried to do a lot of things” against Sabonis, but that none of them were terribly effective, owing to poor execution.","type":"text"},{"content":"Hassan Whiteside, the Jazz’s starting center the past two nights with Gobert out, noted that Utah’s small-ball lineups were particularly ineffectual against Sabonis, although he himself had a rough outing, and acknowledged that he’s still feeling some symptoms from his recent concussion (although he denied that affected his play).","type":"text"},{"content":"While the Pacers played well and deserved the season sweep they earned over the Jazz, Utah came away disappointed that it dropped its second road decision in as many nights.","type":"text"},{"content":"Especially given that they all felt they should have been able to swing the momentum the other way.","type":"text"},{"content":"Mitchell wants it to serve as a wake-up call, with a tough schedule waiting throughout the remainder of January.","type":"text"},{"content":"“This is a winnable game for us, and the fact we didn’t hurts,” he said. “This is gonna eat at us. Hopefully that fuels us for Detroit and the rest of this month. That was a game where, if we pay a little more attention to the little things and do everything a little bit better … we win this game.”","type":"text"},{"content":"Woulda, coulda, shoulda, whatever.","type":"text"},{"content":"It’s hardly a new or unique development seeing the Jazz ultimately come up short against an opponent they ought to beat, simply on account of not consistently maintaining the levels of play they know they need to be successful.","type":"text"},{"content":"Now the issue becomes: How do they make that happen?","type":"text"},{"content":"”We had a couple games where we were defending pretty well, but I don’t know what’s going on. Once in a while, we allow teams to score a bunch of easy buckets. It’s all on us. Across the board, we’ve got to take more responsibility and be better defensively,” said Bogdanovic. “…It’s all about concentration and focus. … We gotta be better. 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When they weren’t clanking shots from the perimeter, they were turning the ball over.","type":"text"},{"content":"But Cougars junior forward Seneca Knight came off the bench and ignited his team. His three-point play started a 9-0 run that closed the first half and gave BYU the momentum advantage for the remainder of the game.","type":"text"},{"content":"The Cougars (14-3) beat the Gaels 52-43 in a game that could have major West Coast Conference implications. Both teams came into Saturday’s game with three losses overall on the season, and it was the conference opener for Saint Mary’s.","type":"text"},{"content":"“We knew coming into this game that it was going to be a physical battle,” guard Alex Barcello said on a postgame radio show. “We really had the right mindset coming into this game.”","type":"text"},{"content":"The Gaels (12-4) closed to within seven points with less than five minutes left in the game. 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