BYU Basketball 24-25-Bring out the Jelly!

[Omaha 680]

We need to be scoring in the mid 70s to be in a good position to win and we will be lucky to hit 60 tonight.

[Joe Public]

Egor showed some really nice things in the first half.

Let’s see if BYU can actually maintain its obligatory first half lead in a conference game.

[Joe Public]

The zone defense has been dialed in to start the second half.

[Joe Public]

Way to light up Cinci! Go get some more conference wins, Cougars.

[myboynoah]

Egor showed some really nice things in the first half.

Let’s see if BYU can actually maintain its obligatory first half lead in a conference game.

Egor had the type of game tonight I've been hoping for all season. Very, very, very good. Exciting to see. Hopefully he's dialing in.

Team played very well. Two good games in a row. Don't play with my feelings!

[myboynoah]

That young lady hitting the $10K shot was cool.

[BigPiney]

that was a fun game. Especially the second half. More like that please!

[byufan4ever]

BYU beats Cincinnati by 28 at home thanks to a huge second half (and a 3P by Denim right before HT). Hopefully this is Denim turning the corner and getting his mojo back (btw I loved the close-up on his face after he hit a 2nd half 3P where he was wrinkling his nose, but still looked super serious and dialed in lol). Cincinnati has two of the nation's top dunkers, but BYU forced them to take 3Ps and they could not hit them. BYU shot lights out - 57.1% / 62.5% / 81.8%. Hopefully we didn't use up all of our good shooting in one night! Oh, and can ESPN please get their network sorted out? Second game in a row where almost 10 minutes of game time was not shown. They had a message saying that it was being streamed on the ESPN app, but not on the Roku. Finally found it on the app on my phone thanks to a comment in the reddit game thread. The ESPN Roku app just had a message dispalying "the event has not yet started" even though the game had.

Egor Demin gets Player of the Game, for the 5th time, but the first in conference play. I was yelling for him not to take that last second three at the end of the first half, but it went in, and then he was a different player in the second half. He had the best PER, TS% (hitting 6/7 FTs helped bring up the score), ORtg, and DRtg. Anytime someone can be top in Offensive Rating and Defensive Rating, even if the formulas are a bit sus, that's just amazing. Saunders gets the best GSc so there's an argument to be made that he was our best player tonight. They were both great. Mabye we make them co - Players of the Game? Richie has really improved his jump shot, but he doesn't just settle for that.

Mawot Mag gets the Struggled to Perform, for the second time. Its weird, I loved him off the bench, but now that's he's starting, I feel that he's struggling. 0 assists to 3 TOs, ouch. He had the worst PER and ORtg. Hall had the worst GSc and he also continues to struggle. I understand he's not a true shooting guard, but he's not looking for his shot at all. At least he had 3 assists to 1 TO. Since he only took 2 shots, he didn't qualify for the TS%. Saunders gets the worst TS%, but at 65.9%, that's actually freaking awesome. The fact that that was our lowest TS% of all players that took at least 3 shots is amazing. Baker had the worst DRtg, but even that was only a tad over 100 (average, I think). Overall, we played some elite defense tonight.


The season summary PER average has been updated and Saunders is back up to second place, passing up Foos. Top 5 are Demin / Saunders / Traore / Keita / Knell.

BYU is now 13-6 (4-4) and #31 in Kenpom and was #43 in NET coming into today. Cincinnati is now #53 in Kenpom and was #41 in NET. As a home game, this is a Q2 win. Up next is Baylor, who is 13-6 (5-3) and #26 in Kenpom and was #29 in NET. As a home game, this will currently be a Q1 game, but just barely. Let's go get that win!!

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[Pelado]

I, for one, really enjoyed that game. I am hoping for many more like it in the coming weeks.

[BigFatMeanie]

byufan4ever, how are you calculating that 16.20 AVE PER for Demin? When I average the numbers in his row, it doesn't come close to 16.20.

[byufan4ever]

byufan4ever, how are you calculating that 16.20 AVE PER for Demin? When I average the numbers in his row, it doesn't come close to 16.20.

I'm only showing the last 10 games for the summary, but I'm calculating it based off of all 19 games. Does that answer it? So, for Demin, he had some amazing first few games against very easy OOC foes, and I've just hidden those games for viewing, otherwise, it would be very hard to see the entire thing.

[byufan4ever]

This is the entire full PER summary season average so far.

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[BigFatMeanie]

I'm only showing the last 10 games for the summary, but I'm calculating it based off of all 19 games. Does that answer it? So, for Demin, he had some amazing first few games against very easy OOC foes, and I've just hidden those games for viewing, otherwise, it would be very hard to see the entire thing.

Roger, that makes sense. Reminds me to watch out for hidden/invisible data!

[Jeff Lebowski]

I am excited about tomorrow's game with Baylor. Will be a good test to see if the recent success the team has had represents a real change.

[myboynoah]

I'm excited as well. So much potential on this team.