Pretty much every post-game news conference with former BYU men’s basketball coach Mark Pope was story time, but Kevin Young is more straightforward and to the point. Every once in a while, though, Young can tell a good one.

The TCU Horned Frogs are going to have to pull a rabbit out of the hat to take down the BYU Cougars.

As BYU fans across the state celebrated the Cougars’ men’s basketball win over rival Utah earlier in the day at the Marriott Center, the night’s attention shifted to a rising trio that continues to shape the BYU women’s season.

On Sunday, KU’s 5-2 start placed the Jayhawks in a tie for fifth in the league standings with Iowa State. Arizona stood first at 7-0 heading into a Big Monday game against Texas Tech (6-1). BYU and Houston enter the week 5-1. Iowa State and KU are 5-2, followed by UCF and West Virginia (4-3). TCU is 3-4. Nobody else has more than two wins.

The Horned Frogs battled AJ Dybantsa and No. 11 BYU in a late-night showdown at the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.

During a time out in the second half of the BYU-Utah men’s basketball game on Saturday, Cougar head coach Kevin Young came up with a play he wanted to run. “Coach (Will) Voigt was like, ‘Nah, let’s just keep going to the hot hand,

Conference play officially began this past week, shaking up the Power 37 rankings as BYU enters the top 10 and Michigan State falls to No. 13.

Arizona basketball is undefeated, but head coach Tommy Lloyd knows his team has a massive challenge with BYU.