BYU Basketball 24-25-Bring out the Jelly!

[byufan4ever]

BYU crushes blue blood Kansas by 34 in their first visit to the ROC since 1960. I loved how we came out swinging right at tip off and didn't let the foot off the gas. But, let's be real, Kansas was bad. I mean real bad. They actually had some decent looks, but could not hit crap. I've complained about our defensive rotations many times this season, but we've never been as bad as Kansas was this game. After Knell has hit 3 3Ps, you still can't find him? You're that afraid of Hall driving to the paint? Dickinson might have gotten 14 rebounds, but he gave up several offensive boards, including to Foos, who is like, what, a foot shorter than him? I really loved the low number of overall fouls (just 19 for both teams combined for the entire game), I didn't see many missed calls and it allowed the flow of the game to continue. And I freakin love that Self used up all of his timeouts with like 14 minutes left in the game. To his credit I didn't see him yelling at either his players or the refs. I like him. Catchings did get into the game for the last two minutes. He was either sick as someone else suggested, or has been relegated to playing with the walk-ons...

Player of the game goes to Keba Keita, for the second straight game. What has he been eating for breakfast? He is becoming dominant on defense, and used more on offense. He had the best PER and DRtg. Everybody that played at least 12 minutes had a Defensive Rating well below 100. Great team defense and Keba is leading the charge. Saunders had the best GSc and I think he's becoming everyone's favorite player from the past 10 years. Great inside and outside game. Mag had the best TS% and ORtg. When he's not fumbling the ball, he can hit the corner 3 and drive strong to the hoop.

The only player that really didn't play well (Baker) didn't qualify as he missed my 15 minute mark by just 1 minute. So Egor Demin gets the Struggled to Perform award. He didn't play horrible, just the worst of all 15+ minute players. Still shooting too many jumpers. I think he dribbles at the top of the key too much. I want him to be more decisive. Swing the ball or drive hard to the lane. He had the worst PER, GSc, TS%, and ORtg. Saunders had the worst DRtg, but it was still under 100.

BYU is now 18-8 (9-6) - I honestly didn't think we'd be 3 games over .500 in conference at any point this season! - and we are now #31 in Kenpom and were #36 in NET coming into today. Kansas is now #22 in Kenpom (I get that no ranking system is perfect, but really?) and was #15 in NET prior to today. As a home game this is a quality Q1 win. We're looking less like a bubble team and more like a solid at-large right now. Up next is a trip to Arizona, who is 18-8 (12-3) and #10 in Kenpom and was #9 in NET. Let's get another Q1 win while we're on this roll!

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[falafel]

Great win! CRUSHED Kansas!

Can we please perhaps be ranked?? I know its not a lock, but c'mon, we beat KANSAS by many a point!!

[Pelado]

What a beautiful game. Hope they can bottle that and take it with them to Tucson.

[myboynoah]

Well, that was kinda anticlimactic. In the best of ways.

A couple of Kansas fans above us threw in the towel and took off at 14 mins left in the second half.

Team is gelling and so deep. Wild that Boscovic and Trey are getting real minutes this late in the season.

[myboynoah]

When does LA Ute show up to complain about mean BYU running up the score?

lol

BlueK, you're allright.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Did Catchings get hurt? I would’ve thought he’d see the floor for several minutes with that second unit.

CB reporting he was sick, which I'm actually happy about, if true. Glad is wasn't some kind of punishment. What a very surprising game.

[Green Monstah]

Did Catchings get hurt? I would’ve thought he’d see the floor for several minutes with that second unit.

Don’t know. His defense is so bad, I’m not surprised he’s spending time on the bench.

My gosh, what a fun game.

[SteelBlue]

Did Catchings get hurt? I would’ve thought he’d see the floor for several minutes with that second unit.

[Joe Public]

Wow! It’s hard to even single someone out. What a great team win.

[BlueK]

When does LA Ute show up to complain about mean BYU running up the score?

[Moliere]

[Joe Public]

When are they going to arrive? Hope not for another hour or so.

I would have never guessed it. This has been best possible scenario so far.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Is this real life?

[beefytee]

I think we might win this one.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My diehard Jayhawk work colleague turned down a ticket when I offered it to him today. I'm taking this as a sign that he knows it won't turn out well for him tonight!