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.
For the first time as Big 12 conference rivals, BYU and Utah will clash on the basketball court Saturday night in the first of two regular-season showdowns. BYU basketball hasn't exactly hit the ground running in their inaugural Big 12 campaign.
BYU basketball coach Kevin Young has been searching for answers to a problem. He might have found them in Tuesday's win over Oklahoma State.
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.
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.
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.
AJ Dybantsa, the consensus No. 1 overall recruit in the Class of 2025, will play alongside fellow BYU signee Xavion Staton.