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NBA Draft stock update: What experts think of Demin, Catchings, and Saunders

By Sam Foster
January 17, 2025 02:56 PM
Coming into the 2024-2025 season, BYU seemed to have two sure-fire first round draft picks with freshmen Egor Demin and Kanon Catchings. Demin's elite vision and playmaking ability and Catchings' high-level athleticism had NBA Draft scouts pining at a chance to draft one of these Cougars.
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BYU is hot and cold in much-needed win vs Oklahoma State

By Sam Foster
January 15, 2025 10:14 AM
After a lackluster start to Big 12 play which resulted in a three-game losing streak, the Cougars bounced back in a 85-69 win over Oklahoma State that still left a lot of questions unanswered.
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Can BYU football replicate these three things in 2025?

By Sam Foster
January 14, 2025 02:11 PM
Coming into the 2024 football season, BYU was only projected to win a measly four games, but across all units, the Cougars rose above expectations, having their best season in 15 years.
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New lineup, same result; BYU falls to TCU on the road

By Sam Foster
January 11, 2025 07:29 PM
Before Saturday's matchup between BYU and TCU, the Cougars held a 17-game winning streak over the Horned Frogs. TCU's last victory over a BYU team was in 1997.
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BYU suffers second straight defeat in close loss to Texas Tech

By Sam Foster
January 08, 2025 10:29 AM
Shooting 21.7% from 3-point range and 57.1% from the free-throw line is usually recipe for a loss.
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The 5-foot-9 BYU assistant coach who shut down Kobe Bryant

By Sam Foster
January 02, 2025 11:44 AM
At 685 miles from Los Angeles, and 2,184 miles from Philadelphia's Lower Merion High School, there is not much overlap between Kobe Bryant and the snow-capped mountains in Provo, Utah.
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No. 19 BYU takes care of Houston, but misses out on chance to play for Big 12 championship

By Sam Foster
December 01, 2024 01:46 AM
With about 10 minutes left in the second quarter of a below-freezing game between No. 19 BYU and Houston at LaVell Edwards Stadium, news broke that put a damper on the night of bundled-up BYU fans.
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Cougars' late-game surge isn't enough; No.14 BYU falls to No. 21 Arizona State in an instant classic

By Sam Foster
November 23, 2024 08:31 PM
TEMPE, Ariz. — In what should have gone down as one of the best college games in college football this season, a controversial and chaotic field storm will be all that people will remember.
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Arizona State's expert predictions for the BYU-ASU game

By Sam Foster
November 22, 2024 05:46 PM
TEMPE, Ariz. — Ahead of BYU's crucial matchup against Arizona State on Saturday, The Daily Universe sent students to Tempe to cover the biggest game in the Big 12.
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