But 5 of their top 8 players are Seniors and 0 of their top 8 are Freshmen and

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Jan 7, 2025
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are in the top 1/3 of the NCAA in D1 experience, and they rate in the mid-40s in both KenPom and T-Rank.

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Time

WARNING FOR BYU

VinnyBYU

Jan 7, 1:10pm

I agree

Indy Coug

Jan 7, 1:11pm

should have properly footnoted your content 😉

VinnyBYU

Jan 7, 1:17pm

Kentucky is a good reminder from both ends of the perspective.

Gentleman Stan

Jan 7, 1:18pm

I remember looking into this in depth last offseason. The average finish of a

jreid191

Jan 7, 2:13pm

All right final four next year with Aj taking that to the bank!

Cooouuugs

Jan 7, 6:15pm

The problem w/ Rutgers is their top 3 players are all Freshmen and their

jreid191

Jan 7, 1:45pm

Agreed, need experienced good players as well

Projectoor

Jan 7, 2:05pm

It is frustrating that Pope just lucked into a cohesive unit with all new

Mitty

Jan 7, 2:13pm

RE: It is frustrating that Pope just lucked into a cohesive unit with all new

6ftCougarTail

Jan 7, 2:16pm

But BYU and Rutgers coaches and so many others in CBB can't?

Mitty

Jan 7, 2:37pm

Look, Pope is a very good coach. He did a lot of great things in his tenure here

DeepCCoug

Jan 7, 6:31pm

I know a lot of folks on CB don't like Pope, but it is hard to dispute his

ElkhunterUT

Jan 7, 2:27pm

He worked his butt off here. He’s probably working his butt off there.

44C

Jan 7, 2:34pm

This revisionist view that Pope was great at Xs and Os is not accurate.

coug92

Jan 7, 3:15pm

Said he was good, not great. Hard to dispute that based on his record alone.

ElkhunterUT

Jan 7, 3:49pm

see Duquense.... sigh...

VinnyBYU

Jan 7, 4:05pm

Utah State has a new coach and a roster of new players. They just cracked the top 25.

Brisco

Jan 7, 2:49pm

But 5 of their top 8 players are Seniors and 0 of their top 8 are Freshmen and

jreid191

Jan 7, 3:13pm

Not saying we can’t have both, but give me Conference Championships and tourney

ProvoSpain

Jan 7, 3:29pm

💯

Polecat

Jan 7, 4:51pm

If we lose tonight we riot. If we win, I'm back in the "all is well" camp

andrewg3

Jan 7, 4:06pm

Riot it is!

VinnyBYU

Jan 7, 9:41pm

I’ll grab my pitchfork

andrewg3

Jan 7, 10:02pm

It feels like CB is finally starting to understand college hoops.

ninja math

Jan 7, 4:28pm

It's the best we can do--we're not Kansas.

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