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I'm sad that there's no Baylor as I want to establish that as our conference rivalry game. We have an early game plus a bye before TCU so that is nice. At least we have a gimmie game with Texas. At least 6 wins? How? I say at most 6 wins. I'm just glad that our bye isn't the second to last week in t...

BYU lost by 1 to 19-4 (8-0) #6 SMC at home (Q1). Robinson, Waterman, and Atiki were all suspended for violating a team rule. I was most worried about not having Atiki as BYU is already so low on tall/big players. Walk-on Tredyn Christensen filled in for 7 minutes and scored his first basket of the s...

On Thursday BYU lost to 15-6 (4-3) #79 Santa Clara (Q2). SC had a clear strategy to not let Traore get the ball as they were doubling him on entry passes. And it worked as he only had 3 FGA and 2 FTA although he still managed to have an impressive PER. For a while BYU stayed with them by hitting thr...

I love to analyze data and trends. It's what I do for a living. With sports it's easy to get passionate and to give too much credit or too much blame with knee jerk reactions. How has Pope faired in his 3+ seasons? First, I want to take a look back on his predecessor Dave Rose. In 14 seasons he reac...

"No longer"? Were you ever? I'm not being negative toward you, just asking for a clarification. I don't remember you ever writing a positive post about Mark Pope. Of course, it's been nearly four years since he was named head coach, so you may have written one or two that I've forgotten. ...

It will take a miracle for BYU to go dancing this year and with BYU headed to the Big12 those trips are going to become even more sparse. I’m no longer a Pope fan. His best team was Dave Rose’s guys. But hey, we are all gonna have our shiny Big 12 bumper stickers that we will shine on Saturday nigh...

BYU lost at home to #9 (15-3) Gonzaga (Q1). Last year we got blown away at home so losing by just 1 is an improvement. But to be up 10 in the second half and then let it slip away hurts. Jaxson Robinson is supposed to be a good defender, but two of Gonzaga's late 3s were his fault. On one occasion h...

On Thursday BYU lost away to 11-6 #100 LMU (Q2). I'm not even upset with this loss. My expectations for this team have just been lowered to where it feels like we are about on the same talent or execution level as LMU. I no longer feel like we are underperforming. BYU is a #100 NET team and I just d...

Great analysis. Thank you for putting it together as I know it takes a lot of work. We had our chances to get some wins against solid teams. I think given how many new players are on this squad it’s taken them time to gel. Problem is if we keep losing 3 - 4 players each year to transferring in addi...

This was a difficult game to watch as neither team wanted to score in the first half. I had the second half on in the background while playing a board game with my family so I didn't really see what changed, but BYU ended up with a comfortable win against #163 (6-9) Portland at home (Q4). Gideon Geo...