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BYU Is Scorching The Nets From Even Farther Back

When Brigham Young replaced retiring head coach Dave Rose with former assistant Mark Pope last offseason, there was a sense of continuity. Pope was Rose’s assistant for four years before he moved on to a successful four-year head coaching tenure at Utah Valley, 6 miles down the road. He was familiar with BYU’s culture. But […]

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Baylor Was Known For Its Offense. Now It’s Winning With Defense.

The top-ranked Baylor men’s basketball team hasn’t lost in more than three months and is riding a Big 12-record 23-game win streak. This isn’t the first stint at No. 1 for the school under head coach Scott Drew, but this team is nothing like previous iterations of his Bears. While a revered recruiting prowess and […]

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Kansas’s Udoka Azubuike Has Found The Formula For Efficiency: Dunk A Lot

The Big 12 Conference’s reigning player of the week put everything on display last weekend. Kansas center Udoka Azubuike drop-stepped, elbowed and spun his way through the TCU defense in Fort Worth, Texas, to help seal Jayhawks head coach Bill Self’s 700th career victory. Azubuike accounted for five dunks in the opening 10 minutes, four […]

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North Carolina Men’s Basketball Is Off The Rails

The North Carolina Tar Heels walked onto their home court as 8.5-point favorites against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for their first game of the 2020 calendar year. With a victory, daggum coaching legend Roy Williams could have passed his former mentor — and the namesake of North Carolina’s home court — on the all-time […]

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