Former men's basketball coach Dave Rose may have retired from BYU, but the Cougars still found their way back to him. Coach Rose will again be a bench boss as he takes on the role of coaching Team Fredette in The Basketball Tournament, an upcoming basketball tournament with a $2 million dollar winner-take-all purse
Melanie Day and Lee Cummard have been hired as assistants to BYU women's basketball head coach Jeff Judkins. The news comes just months after former assistant coaches Dan Nielson and Ashley Garfield left BYU to take coaching positions at UVU.
Eric Mika and Elijah Bryant, former BYU basketball players, have both made their names known in NBA Summer League play with stat lines that may come as a surprise to some, but perhaps not to BYU fans.
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee voted to move the men's 3-point line from 20 feet, 9 inches to 22 feet, 1 3/4 inches on June 5. The change will align the NCAA 3-point line with the international 3-point line, still shy of the 23 foot, 9 inch NBA 3-point line.
Polls conducted on The Daily Universe social media accounts showed that 73.8% of respondents, members of the BYU community, are cheering for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Finals.
BYU basketball could be set to have their best season in recent memory with BYU star Yoeli Childs returning for his senior season and the addition of All-American Honorable Mention Jake Toolson.
Great players, team chemistry, and a whole lot of heart were key ingredients to BYU women’s basketball’s successful 2018-2019 season, which saw the team go 26-7 and win the WCC championship.
BYU basketball head coach Mark Pope has found his assistant coaches. Cody Fueger, Chris Burgess and Nick Robinson have been hired as assistant coaches for the BYU basketball team. Burgess and Fueger come to BYU from UVU where they were also assistant coaches to Mark Pope for the last four seasons. Robinson spent his last two campaigns at Seattle University, also as an assistant coach.
Utah Valley University star Jake Toolson is transferring back to BYU for his final year of NCAA basketball eligibility, according to multiple reports on Twitter.
BYU football defensive lineman Khyris Tonga has NFL Draft aspirations heading into the 2019 season. There is plenty of hype surrounding the junior, and his improvements since last season have only added to it.
The last time BYU football took down Utah, Obama was serving his first term as president and The Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" was toping the Billboard charts. The eight-game losing streak has been merciless to BYU fans, but there's more to consider when analyzing these losses.
