The Utes exposed some of the Cougars' biggest weaknesses. Will new head coach Kevin Young get BYU back on track in time for March?
Both BYU and Utah have some "traitors" on their rosters, as Cougars coach Kevin Young said. That will only make Saturday's rivalry game that much more interesting.
Returning talent Richie Saunders leads the Cougars in scorer with 12.9 points per game as he's made his transition from the bench to the starting lineup in 13 games, and Fousseyni Traore has perhaps been BYU's most consistently player while averaging 10.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game primarily off the bench.
The Cougars' free throw shooting against Utah was emblematic of how the season has gone in Young’s first season in Provo. BYU has had opportunities to win games, but the fragility of basketball has them sitting at 11-6 overall this season and 2-4 in conference play.
Three days after dealing with the best defensive team in college basketball, BYU faces the best shooting team in the land on Tuesday when Texas Tech rolls into the Marriott Center
A three-game losing streak has exposed a host of problems for BYU ahead of Tuesday night's Big 12 clash with Oklahoma State in Provo, Utah. The Cougars (10-5, 1-3) dropped
The 73-72 overtime loss in front of 15,558 at the Huntsman Center — Utah’s previous attendance high this season was 7,922 — dropped the Cougars’ record to 11-6 overall, 2-4 in the Big 12, and was another reminder of perhaps BYU’s biggest problem in coach Kevin Young’s first season: a failure to finish.
In just over two months I’ve made the trip to Salt Lake City for a pair of BYU-Utah rivalry contests. Both — football at Rice-Eccles Stadium in November and men’s basketball at the Huntsman Center on Saturday — turned out to be physical,
Current BYU basketball assistant coach Chris Burgess has been on both sides of the state's best basketball rivalry; here's how he feels on the eve of the big game.
Set to finish off the Utah road swing, the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team will try to put last weekend’s ugly loss in the rearview when it takes on BYU on Tuesday.
The Cougars' former starting point guard tied a season high with 14 points on 4-of-4 shooting off the bench in the 85-69 win over the Cowboys.
While the BYU football team enjoyed some fortuitous bounces in 2024, the same can’t be said for Kevin Young’s basketball team.