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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Who knows what will translate to the regular season but through 2 exhibition games BYU is averaging 25 FTA / game. Last year that would have been good for 11th best in the country. In addition, the Cougs are shooting 80% from the stripe with Keita going 7/8 and Mboup 4/4

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

While football’s in a rain delay, here’s a random stat In 64 career games so far, Kennard Davis has never fouled out of a game. Has only hit 4 fouls thirteen times in his career Pretty good mark for someone who will be relied on as your main defensive stopper

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

As it stands in the preliminary projections at haslametrics.com/ratings2.php..., BYU is never more than a 6pt underdog (at Arizona). Over the 6 games they are currently projected to drop, the average spread is only 2.5 pts Current projected losses: UConn at TxTech at Kansas Houston at Baylor at AZ

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Preliminary preseason projections are out on haslametrics.com and the cougars clock in at 12th overall (8th OFF, 33rd DEF) Ended last season at 20th ovr, 11th OFF, 70th DEF Jumping to the team page, preliminary projections have the Cougs going 24-6 with only a loss to UConn in non-con play

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Full BYU roster starting ratings from evanmiya. Also rankings relative to the rest of the Big XII. BYU and Houston both have 4 players in the top 20 of the conference #BYUHoops #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Preseason numbers are ready over on evanmiya.com. BYU comes in as the #8 team with AJ, Richie, and Rob as top 50 players. Initial rankings have BYU as third in the conference behind Houston and Arizona #BYUHoops #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excited to put an actual team logo up on this bad boy by the end of tonight

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Kennard Davis played 6 games last year against top 100 (Kenpom) defenses. Scoring kept up pretty well and actually increased in shooting efficiency against those opponents, especially from three. Did see decreases in FTA, less assists, more TOs against top 100 defenses

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Evan Miyakawa @evanmiya.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm using the Matchup Preview tool at EvanMiya.com to look at some spicy potential 2nd round tournament games. 2-seed Tennessee vs 7-seed BYU would be very fun. The Vols stifling defense against the hottest offensive team in the country right now in BYU. Vols only predicted to win by 3 👀

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Also from haslametrics.com BYU has beaten defensive expectations in 6 out of the last seven games. Average offensive ranking on the site of the teams they faced over that span is 52. Breakdown 👇 Top 1-15: 1 16-30: 1 31-40: 1 41 - 50: 1 51 - 100: 3 #BYUHoops #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

BYU's defense is now good enough to avg out to a top 50 def across 4 analytics sites kenpom.com - 57 barttorvik.com - 46 evanymiya.com - 41 haslametrics.com - 47 really good progress you can track visually w/ this graph from haslametrics

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Richie is close to this top 20, averaging 16.8ppg in BYU's 12 Quad 1 games. Doing it on 50/39.7/81 shooting splits too. In BYU's last 4 Quad 1 games he's at 23.5 ppg on 57/53/89.5 splits 🔥

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Per request from @steviepf22.bsky.social, #BYUHoops has been really taking care of business in the middle portion of games during their latest win streak. Here's the breakdown of their +/- through the last 7 mins of the 1st half and first 7 mins of the second half in the last nine games.

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm really trying not to get my hopes up too much and take things one game at a time, lol. Always depends on the matchup but BYU has been finding multiple ways to win games against quality opponents

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

BYU's win against Arizona was the 20th best win of the season

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Looking at barttorvik.com, if BYU wins all the games they are favored to over these last 4 (ASU, WVU, Utah), their WAB could end up around 3.21 at the end of the regular season. All three wins are 60%+ win probability. WAB doesn't have as clean of a 1/2

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Big 12 conference by Net rating per cbbanalytics.com. Numbers are for conference play only. BYU inching closer to the top echelon, kind of in a space of their own right now.

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Re: BYU being determined to push the pace early in games 8 of the first 11 points against K State came as they pushed the pace. Love how almost every time they're looking to flip the floor early (passes across) to prevent the defense from loading up on the ball #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Quick 🧵 on pace (data from cbbanalytics.com): In BYU's first 9 Big XII games their pace was 63.1 poss per 40 minutes. Part of that came from playing 4 games against the slowest teams in conference but to compare in their last 5 games their pace is 67.2 poss. Now 1/3

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BYU's practically the definition of Bubble Team with that +0.03 value, basically the average Bubble Team would have 0 WAB but that runs a big risk of being left out of the tourney. Per Torvik, WVU is BYU's 3rd best opportunity left in the regular season

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BYU's back to back losses have dropped their WAB (Wins Above Bubble) to 53rd best in the country. barttorvik.com has it at +0.03 currently. Big opportunity tonight, per Torvik, to add 0.73 to their WAB (max you can get from one game is technically 1)

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Rematch season is upon us. Cincy will most likely shoot better at home, BYU will shoot worse on the road but in MC BYU was solid at collapsing drives and disrupting with swipes and deflections as well as cleaned the glass. Keep that formula and should be able to get the job done

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Another OBU that doesn't result in a make but wanted to highlight the fantastic read Richie makes here. Knows UCF is in a lock and trail so short circuits the screen and goes directly to the corner. Feel like his reads on screens have really improved this year #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fun OBU set that springs Dawson for a three. BYU doesn't use this starting configuration much so a bit of a tell there but w/ Richie's defender in a lock and trail and the defense sagging to the paint, pretty straightforward to slip Dawson up through the elevator doors #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Fun new metric that Evan dropped recently. BYU with work to do, 7th team in the "Just Out of the Field" category. Here's the whole conference sorted by this metric. BYU's worst losses are Utah (*sigh*) and Providence as it stands now. Win this weekend could go a long way

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Fun graphic from JG Trends over on twitter (x.com/jgtrends/sta...) BYU getting and making pretty much any three they want through conference play out of the pick and roll. RIght corner giving them some grief but top marks everywhere else

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Egor with a slick pass between the legs for a Richie three in transition, reminded me of this bad boy KC threw many moons ago

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

These one pass away seams are there to attack with Colorado pinching in and hard showing to a switch to take away any pick and roll juice. Make the read a half second faster and seam should be bigger

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Outside of the TCU game where he went 5/7, Richie is 4/15 (26%) from 3 in the other three away games. Could use another TCU like outing tonight, decent start as he's 1/2 so far tonight

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

BYU started the first four minutes running a double stagger action for Egor a few times in a row, initial action hasn't yielded much but he was able to exploit the space for a hockey assist on Trevin's three earlier

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Yet another way to get to Spain in the Texas Tech game. BYU ran this flex set quite a bit in the game but terminated it here with Spain from the wing. Rare low-impact screen from Trevin in the different context but Dallin still able to get downhill and get an open 3 #YzeGuyClips #BYUHoops

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Egor still in the top 10 (7th) Other Big 12 prospects: V.J. Edgecombe - Baylor (5th) JoJo Tugler - Houston (32nd) Darrion Williams - Tx Tech (37th) JT Toppin - Tx Tech (50th) Tucker DeVries - WVU (58th)

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Back with another WAB check, BYU's next four games could be a bit more winnable than their last two. If they can take care of business and go on a run (4-0) barttorvik.com estimates them adding around 1.62 WAB, putting them at +1.1 on the season. Almost every 1/3

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Really think BYU should be in the next tier up, haven't performed to it yet though. Excited to see if they can get there in the back half of the season

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

BYU's been using this little pitchback action to help Kanon get more downhill the last few games. Really simple thing but they've gotten to it in transition as well as set it up in the halfcourt a few times. Kanon's capitalized every time, either scoring or getting fouled #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Here's another fun way to end up in Spain. Clear one side to get defense thinking two-man game, Richie comes up the gut for a handoff then reverses back into a ballscreen. Meanwhile Dawson's floated into the paint and now you're in Spain. Checkout how 1/2 #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Been really fun to see the different ways KY has BYU end up in Spain action. Don't get all the way to Spain action here but you can see it setting up (Trevin stopping in the paint to hunt the screen at the end). Two backscreens then a handoff put the switching defense behind #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Fun part with Dawson here is his rim and three rate. 81% is not all that "great", if it was a team they'd be ranked lower than 200th with that rate. However, despite that relatively disadvantageous shot profile he's 80th percentile in SQ PPP and 96th percentile in 1/2

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#BYUHoops players Shot Quality data via shotqualitybets.com. Trevin's hot shooting start has him in the 99th percentile in "Shot Making". Fouss, Richie, and Dawson also in 90+ percentile. I really believe Kanon's shooting will improve, he leads the team in FGAs rn at 10.5/gm #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#BYUHoops numbers for these metrics as of 12/16 Average: 51.57 Evanmiya - 39 Haslam - 55 KP - 44 Torvik - 32 NET - 53 SOR - 66 WAB - 72 Predictive metrics like Evanmiya, Torvik, KP are still in an OK place but unsurprisingly resume-type metrics like SOR and WAB need some 1/4

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

No matter who AJ picks just remember that there is a J that will always be a part of your eternal team

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Speaking of conference and Shot Quality, BYU is currently fifth in adjOFF and fourth in adjDEF shot quality. Some solid indicators after a kinda bumpy first venture into top 100 Kenpom opponents #BYUHoops #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Check out #BYUHoops being number 10 in adjusted Defensive shot quality (metric takes opponent quality into account). This is one thing I kinda hold onto watching the two losses, especially Ole Miss, BYU is still forcing a pretty advantageous shot profile defensively. They have 1/3

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

BYU laying an egg last night resulted in a -0.53 hit to their WAB to bring the current season total to -0.34 (81st in the country). Even winning the last three cupcakes, BYU will go into conference play with a negative WAB. Last year they went into Big XII play at +1.2 WAB and picked up another

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Here's a fun rep from BYU's switch happy defense. NC State does some good action to get into a Spain look with the guard (#4) vacating early to try and beat the switching defenders. BYU's ready for it though and brings up the weakside man (Trevin) to cover things. #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

BYU often switches early out of their OBU coverage when a man is going to the corner. If there was an action here with a man going to the corner, Richie would jump out and switch. With no action, though, he is free to just try and make a play. Nearly comes up with a steal here #YzeGuyClips

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Transition is the last big piece of BYU's offense that is currently inefficient (relative to D1 averages), could be a big piece of tonight's game as Providence is only at 333rd in Kenpom's Adjusted tempo metric. #BYUHoops #BYUSN

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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

NC State was the first game this season (per hoop-explorer.com 's metrics) that BYU had a "Transition" game in the green. 1st screenshot is the play types for the NC state game, second is play types for the season. 1.20 pts/play in transition against NCSt, 1.09 pts/play on the 1/4

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