HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Jimmer Fredette scored 20 points and had eight assists as the BYU men's basketball tean beat Hawaii 83-65 in late Friday night action.

The Cougars improved to 3-0 on the young season by shooting 55.7 percent (34-of-61) from the field. Senior Jonathan Tavernari, who has struggled with his shot so far this year, broke out by hitting 7-of-14 shots -- including 3-of-7 from 3-point range -- in tallying 17 points.

• UVU volleyball: At Houston, Utah Valley University came from behind to post a 22-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-17, 15-6 victory over host Houston Baptist to advance to the Great West Conference volleyball tournament championship match.

The second-seeded Wolverines (22-9) will face the No. 1 seed North Dakota Fighting Sioux today at 1 p.m. (MT) for the title. The two teams split during the regular season.

"They (the Fighting Sioux) are a very good team, and what happened here today will help us," UVU coach Sam Atoa said. "I still feel like it is in our hands and I'm excited for the championship match."

Trailing two games to one, the Wolverines forced the fifth and deciding set after erasing a three-point deficit early in the fourth game behind four kills from Kayli Broadbent and three by Camie Manwill.

In Game 5, Houston Baptist (13-20) took a 3-0 lead, but a kill by Broadbent, who had 14 in the match, and four consecutive attack errors by HBU gave the Wolverines the lead for good at 5-3. Leading 10-5, Broadbent had two kills, Kathleen Stevens had a service ace, an error by HBU and a kill by Chelsea Fa'alogo, a second-team all-conference selection, lifted UVU to the game and match victory.

"I was real proud of our girls. You have to give them the credit," Atoa said. "There were times that they didn't respond very well, especially in the first set, and they did later on and got better as time went on. I am proud of how they executed and how confident they were."

Broadbent finished with 18 digs to record her eighth double-double of the year, and Manwill recorded her 14th double-double with 17 digs. Fa'alogo also had a double-double with 34 assists, 14 digs and seven kills.

Earlier in the day, Manwill led the Wolverines with 16 kills, while Broadbent had eight kills and Robison had a season-high seven kills and three block assists in leading the Wolverines to the victory over Chicago State to earn the berth into the semifinals.

• BYU women's basketball: At Bozeman, Mont., sophomore Kristen Riley recorded a season-and career-high 12 points in the BYU women's basketball team's 79-54 win over Montana State.

"This was an excellent team effort tonight," said BYU coach Jeff Judkins. "We did good on our rebounding and our outside game."

Riley and teammate Alexis Kaufusi dominated the second half for the Cougars. Riley finished with 12 points, eight of those coming in the second half. Kaufusi finished with 12 points and nine rebounds, both a season-and career-high.

The Cougars held the Bobcats to shooting just 31 percent from the field and 14 percent from behind the arc. This is the lowest points scored this season for Montana state.

• UVU women's basketball: At Farmville, Va., a 14-0 run early in the second half blew a close game open and sent Longwood to a 73-51 win over Utah Valley.

The Wolverines (2-3) took a 31-30 lead with 18:54 left in the game on a Julie Smith jumper, but the Lancers (1-2) would hold the Wolverines scoreless over the next six minutes, taking control of the game.

UVU could not recover and Longwood eventually pushed the lead to 23 on the strength of 66.7 percent shooting, outscoring the Wolverines 43-22 in the second half.

Kayla Burningham led the scoring for the second straight game for UVU with 12. Smith finished with 10 points and six rebounds while Asumi Nakayama had nine. Chelsea Coward led four Lancers with 15,

• UVU wrestling: At Raleigh, N.C., the UVU wrestling team continued its hot week on the East Coast, beating North Carolina State of the ACC 26-10.

On the night the Wolverines (3-0) won a seven of 10 matches, including seven of the final eight bouts. With the loss NC State drops to 1-1 on the year.

"The match was great tonight," UVU coach Greg Williams said. "Our freshmen at the upper weights (Josh Wood and Dylan Stadel) improved a lot from last night and won hard fought matches."

UVU 26, N.C. State 10: 133, Darrius Little, NCS, dec. Flint Ray, 10-7; 141, Dale Shull, NCS, maj. dec. Marty Carlson, 9-0; 149, Justin Morrill, UVU, won by default at 3:00; 157, Boby Ward, NCS, dec. Richard winger, 11-8; 165, Monte Schmalhaus, UVU ,dec. Kasey Young, 12-5; 174, Brad Darrinton, UVU, dec. Qinton Godley, 4-2; 184, Casen Eldredge, UVU, maj. dec. Jonathan Becker, 9-1; 197, Josh Wood, UVU, dec. Andrew Tumlin, 9-8; Hwt., Dylan Stadel, UVU, dec. Bobby Isola, 3-2; 125, Benjamine Kjar, UVU, maj. dec. Taylor Cummings, 15-3.

• BYU men's and women's swimming: At Long Beach, Calif., against a field of top teams in the country, the BYU swim team placed high in Day 1 of competition at the Toshiba Classic Thursday.

The 200 free relay team of Christian Keil, Daniel Bates, John Kendrick and David Mason placed fifth (1:24.74). The women placed third in the same event (1:33.72) with Kirsty Ferrell, Natasha Menezes, Sara Jayne Christiansen Baldwin and Aleesha Miller making up the team.

For the men, Vytenis Slenys wa 10th in the 200 individual medley (1:52.24) and the 400 medley relay team (Keil, Mason, Slenys, Kendrick) was seventh (3:28.50).

For the women, Rachel Grant placed eighth in the 200 IM (2:02.32) and the 400 medley relay team (Candice Smith, Baldwin, Grant, Miller) was sixth (3:47.97).