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Matt

@yze-guy.bsky.social
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Love BYU. Love basketball. Occasionally doing BYU hoops film study over at vanquishthefoe.com Sometimes building stuff at www.byuhoopstats.com

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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
can check out the team page and game by game predictions here: haslametrics.com/ratings2.php...
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The goal of Haslametrics is to provide unique statistical insight and to offer predictive analysis based on teams' prior performances in a given season.
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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 · 24/06/2025
A golden era of cinema
A parody image of the New York Times best movies of the 21st century polling results but only including BYU/LDS Sports related movies such as the Amazing documentary Jimmer Fredette's senior season and Last Miracle for Lavell about Lavell Edward's final season as head football coach
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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
if you wanna zoom in a little bit more here's the same data scoped to the last 4 minutes then first 4 minutes of the 1st and second halves. Even better in some aspects that the 7 min view (K State was better as was WVU)
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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
correlation to seeding as it does to making the tourney but three of the four teams that ended last season between 3-4 WAB were four seeds. The other team (USU actually) was on the eight line. All four teams won at least one game in the tourney 2/2
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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
Bluesky's limitations on video are killing me, haha. Here are the other two possessions from a great start to the K State game
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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
stops they are really out running and trying to push the pace. The challenge then becomes to keep that up and be consistent. Of note, they also crashed the glass real hard in the last 2 games (7 OREB vs WVU, 13 vs K St) which helps push that pace number up /end
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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
you're getting a bounce from playing 3 of the faster teams in conference in those 5 games but KY has said all year that they want to play faster and it does seem like they're making progress there. You see it especially in the beginning of games as they are able to get 2/3
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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
on a side note, would love to see Egor as the screen setter in some of these and slip him early to give him some run in the short roll
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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
98 straight, haha, it was actually 7 so all sorts of wrong. Only 2 FTs
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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
Richie with 98straight on 1 three, 3 FTs, pick six, and tacked a block on for good measure
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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
Always fun to see the different ways KY gets to Spain, it's like he can't help himself. Texas Tech's coverage made them vulnerable to it as well, it's the set we ran three times in a row for two Egor layups and a Dawson three
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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
currently at -0.5 WAB (68th in the country according to barrtorvik.com) while +1.1 would be 34th currently. At the end of last season teams at that mark were in the late 30's early 40's in WAB /end
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Matt @yze-guy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
team that ended last season at +1.1 got in except for Indiana St (+1.9) and that scenario shouldn't be a problem for BYU b/c of the conference they are in. Obviously would be huge in steadying the ship and finally inserting themselves into the tourney conversation BYU is 2/3
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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
open Dawson is at the end if Richie decided to terminate and kick it to him. All these different ways to get to the action put the defense on their heels and reactionary. Dawson's defender feels like he needs to help here and Dawson becomes wide open. I really like this one 2/2
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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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