A few days after securing a commitment from a Wake Forest transfer who will not be able to play for the Cougars until 2014-15, BYU basketball coaches landed a player on Monday who is eligible to play right away.
Frank Bartley, a 6-foot-3 combo guard from Baton Rouge, La., who played at a prep school in California last season, gave BYU a commitment over the weekend, according to the website verbalcommits.com.
Bartley played for Future College Prep of Carson, Calif., and helped the team go 52-13 and win the West Coast Prep School Championship. He averaged 19 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, while dishing out 6.7 assists and collecting 3.3 steals.

Bartley's pending sign...

The BYU basketball team is getting some much-needed 3-point shooting help, but coach Dave Rose won't be able to enjoy his latest addition until the 2014-15 season.
Chase Fischer, a 6-foot-3 shooting guard from Ripley, West Virginia, who played the last two seasons at Wake Forest, announced Friday night that he is transferring to BYU. Fischer will have to sit out the 2013-14 season, due to NCAA transfer rules, and will have two seasons to play two for the Cougars.
Fischer's tie to BYU is assistant coach Mark Pope, who recruited him to Wake Forest when Pope was on that ACC school's coaching staff.
According to the Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail newspaper, Fischer had narrowed his ...

A flurry of BYU basketball news broke on Thursday afternoon, some of it good, and some of it bad.
First, the good news:
Former BYU center Brandon Davies has been invited to participate in next week's NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.
While not exactly a surprise, given how he performed at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament last month, earning MVP honors, Davies was not a sure thing to make the list. So that's great news for the Provo High graduate, projected by some to be a late second-round pick in June's NBA Draft.
Here's the 60-player list, courtesy of Jeff Goodman and CBSSports.com. It should probably be noted that two of the best players in the West Coast Conference...

Another player that BYU basketball coach Dave Rose was heavily pursuing to add size and athleticism to his 2013-14 team has chosen to go in a different direction.
Tanner Lancona, a 6-foot-8 power forward and high school senior from Southern California (Orange County) recently picked Saint Louis over BYU, Colorado State, Kansas State and others.
Lancona signed with Washington State last November, but was released from his scholarship by coach Ken Bone and re-opened his recruitment.
He was considered the prize of WSU's 2013 recruiting class before the release and is a three-star recruit, according to Scout.com.
Lancona averaged 19 points and 11 rebounds for Tesoro High l...

At about 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, it was one down, one to go for BYU sports fans.
BYU's rugby team earned the school's first championship of the day, beating California 27-24 at South Field in Provo for the Varsity Cup national rugby championship. At 7 p.m. MDT tonight, BYU will meet UC Irvine in the NCAA men's volleyball national championship match.
In the rugby match, the inaugural Varsity Cup, freshman Jonny Linehan scored with no time left to break a 24-24 tie and give the Cougars their second-straight national title. BYU beat Arkansas State 49-42 to win the title last year at Sandy's Rio Tinto Stadium.
Linehan, who was named the game's MVP, accounted for 22 of BYU's ...

BYU basketball coaches received some bad news on Wednesday night when SLCC basketball star Sai Tummala, whom they were heavily recruiting, said he will sign with his hometown school, Arizona State. Tummala had BYU and Arizona State in his final four or five schools, along with Nebraska and Miami of Ohio.
"Committed to be an Arizona State Sun Devil! I am extremely blessed to have this opportunity," Tummala noted on his Twitter account Thursday morning.

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This is a big weekend for BYU sports, with the men's rugby team taking on Cal on Saturday at South Field in Provo for the national championship, and the men's volleyball team playing in the Final Four ...

Sai Tummala says he is getting close to deciding which Division I college basketball program he will play for next fall.
He's just not sure how close.
I was able to reach Tummala on the phone briefly on Tuesday afternoon, and the Salt Lake Community College star said he hoped to have had made a decision by the end of April, but it appears that might not happen now. He said some things have changed recently -- he declined to say what happened, exactly -- and that the changes have caused him to take a step back and reconsider a few options.
As I noted in this space 12 days ago, BYU coach Dave Rose is recruiting Tummala rather intensely, hoping the 6-foot-6, 212-pound native of P...

The NFL Draft ended on Saturday night with only one BYU player getting drafted -- defensive end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah.
But shortly after the draft ended, word started to get out about several free agent signings.
Here's the working list:
* BYU offensive tackle Braden Brown signed a free-agent contract with the Saint Louis Rams.
* BYU middle linebacker Brandon Ogletree signed a free-agent contract with the Miami Dolphins.
* BYU middle linebacker Uona Kaveigna signed a free-agent contract with the Denver Broncos.

* BYU offensive lineman Braden Hansen signed a free-agent contract with the Oakland Raiders.

* Defensive tackle Romney Fuga on Sunday joined K...

When BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall met NFL Draft pick Ziggy Ansah's mother, Elizabeth Cole, on Thursday for the first time, he had some explaining to do.
Mendenhall held a teleconference with reporters on Friday morning from New York, and took a question from yours truly about whether Ziggy's mother understands how big of a deal her son has become in this country.
Mendenhall said that Ansah's mother asked him last night why her son couldn't be drafted by the NFL team in Utah.
"I explained that we don't have an [NFL] team in Utah, and then she started to ask why. Just her understanding of the NFL, and the opportunities, and what is going to be at stake, and what...

BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall is in New York City this week, attending the NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday where star defensive end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah is expected to be picked early in the first round.
But it is another draft, which will take place June 6-8, that could also draw a lot of Mendenhall's attention. That's when the 2013 Major League Baseball draft will be held, and when Mendenhall could lose a potential starting cornerback.
Here's the story:
BYU's Jacob Hannemann, the two-sport star from nearby Lone Peak High, is currently shining for the BYU baseball team, after redshirting for the football team last fall and becoming a vital scout team...

A former Oregon State football star who played briefly for BYU in 1993 died last week at the age of 37 after a five-year battle with cancer.
Tevita Moala, dubbed "The Tenacious Tongan" by many in his hometown of Hawthorne, Calif., originally attended BYU out of Hawthorne High and was a 5-10, 185-pound defensive back during the 1993 season, according to BYU's media guide.
Moala saw action in three games for BYU before suffering a season-ending injury.
After a church mission to the Philippines, Moala returned to BYU in 1997, but didn't play that year and transferred to El Camino College in California.
He shined at OSU from 1999-2000. A linebacker at OSU, he played on the sc...

The University of San Diego's five-year stranglehold on the West Coast Conference Commissioner's Cup -- awarded annually to the WCC institution with the most success in conference play -- is in serious jeopardy.
BYU increased its lead to 11.5 points in the race for the 2012-13 Cup with decent finishes in men's and women's golf and tennis recently.
BYU now has 71.0 points through April's events and leads Santa Clara (59.5) after the Broncos won a share of the women's tennis regular season title. San Diego is just behind Santa Clara, with 59.0 points.
In the men's race, BYU is in second place with 29.0 points, three behind leader Saint Mary's College (32.0 points).
In th...

When the signing period for Division I college basketball began on Wednesday, BYU basketball coaches filled one of their two known scholarship openings, landing Salt Lake Community College guard Skyler Halford. You can read more about Halford's signing here.
But what about the second scholarship? Will they fill that soon as well? When he met with beat writers who cover BYU basketball on Tuesday, coach Dave Rose said they are targeting four or five other guys.
One of those players with a BYU offer in hand is Sai Tummala, Halford's teammate at SLCC. Tummala is a 6-foot-6, 212-pounder who originally attended Michigan and redshirted his freshman season in Ann Arbor.
He averaged 14...

As you may or may not have noticed, I took some time off the past week or so, what with BYU's basketball season ending and 2013 football spring camp reaching its conclusion on April 5.
I'm back at it today, however, so it is time for a quick recap of BYU sports-related news and notes you might have missed.

The Tribune unveiled its All-State Boys Basketball Teams in today's newspaper, and BYU-bound Nick Emery of Lone Peak is the 5A MVP. Utah State-bound Jalen Moore of Sky View is the 4A MVP.
Three other BYU-bound prospects -- Lone Peak's Eric Mika and T.J. Haws (a junior) and Orem's Dalton Nixon (also a junior) -- made the first teams in 5A and 4A, respectively.
How g...

Two weeks after their season ended in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden, BYU basketball players, coaches and others celebrated the season with their annual awards banquet on Tuesday night at the Provo Marriott.
The team's two leading scorers, Tyler Haws and Brandon Davies, shared the Outstanding Player Award and seniors Davies, Brock Zylstra and Craig Cusick were honored with framed jerseys.
Davies, of course, had just returned from playing in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, where he led his team to the championship (3-0) and was named the PIT MVP. He averaged 20.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in the three games, while shooting 67.6 percent from the field.

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The worst-kept secret in Provo was revealed on Wednesday afternoon as BYU released its post-spring camp depth chart. Sophomore Taysom Hill is the starting quarterback, and sophomore Ammon Olsen is his primary backup.
There was some speculation that Snow College transfer Christian Stewart had overtaken Olsen in the latter stages of camp, combined with Olsen's PCL injury suffered in the Blue/White Game, but Olsen holds on to the No. 2 spot, for now.
"We have named Taysom the starter because of his game experience in 2012, strong leadership qualities and his breakaway speed and athleticism," BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said in a school news release. "Ammon had a phenomenal spring. I a...

As expected, BYU's football game against Boise State this season has been moved up a day.
Originally scheduled to be played on Saturday, Oct. 26, the game will now be played on Friday, Oct. 25, BYU announced Wednesday afternoon.
The game will begin at 6 p.m. MDT and will be televised by ESPN.
It will be the Cougars' third Friday game of the season, joining the Middle Tennessee State game (Sept. 27) and the Utah State game (Oct. 4) in Logan.
The BYU-Boise State game will be the second in a 12-year series. The Broncos won the first game 7-6 last September in Boise.

Here's BYU's updated 2013 Football Schedule

Aug. 31 -- at Virginia

Sept. 7...

Looks like former BYU quarterback Max Hall will get another shot at professional football.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League signed Hall on Monday after releasing backup QB Alex Brink. The Bombers also signed former Rice QB Chase Clement on Monday, meaning they will have four QBs in camp. Hall and Clement will battle for the starting spot with veteran Buck Pierce and Justin Goltz.
Pierce, for you trivia buffs, attended the same high school as current BYU receiver Cody Hoffman -- Del Norte High in Crescent City, Calif.
As for Hall, he was a student assistant coach at BYU last season, but the writing was on the wall that he would not return in 2013 when h...

The BYU Cougars won't be playing in the NIT championship game tonight at Madison Square Garden (Iowa and Baylor will), but part of their 2013-14 schedule was announced on Thursday.
BYU has been invited to play in the CBE Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, Mo., in November, the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced Thursday.
Football fans traveling to South Bend for the BYU-Notre Dame football game on Nov. 23 might be able to catch the basketball tournament on the way back, if they are so inclined.
The tournament's semifinals are Monday, Nov. 25 and the championship game/consolation game is Tuesday, Nov. 26.
ESPN will broadcast the games on of its ne...

With just under eight minutes remaining on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, things were looking good for the BYU Cougars. Matt Carlino had just made his second 3-pointer of the second half to tie the Baylor Bears 52-52 and the Cougars' zone defense was working well.
Or so it seemed.
About 15 seconds later, Baylor forward Cory Jefferson broke free under the basket, and dunked the basketball while being fouled by Brandon Davies. Jefferson completed the 3-point play and the Cougars' second-leading scorer and best inside presence headed to the bench with his fourth foul.
The Cougars would not get closer than three points the rest of the way, and that was that. It was their ...

What is the BYU basketball team up to in New York City?
Mostly, the team is focused on tonight's 5 p.m. MDT matchup with Baylor (ESPN2), but there has been time for a few other activities, as this report posted on the Tribune's website details.
The Cougars saw Madison Square Garden for the first time this morning in a shootaround at the basketball mecca..
At 24-11, BYU will try to win its 25th game for the seventh consecutive season tonight. Kansas is the only program that has a longer active streak of consecutive 25-plus win seasons.
If the Cougars win -- at that's a big if, considering that they are 4.5-point underdogs -- they will try for a third NIT title on Thursday...

Good morning, everyone.
The BYU basketball team woke up in New York City for the second-straight day on Tuesday, but today the Cougars have a game to play.
They got their first look at Madison Square Garden this morning in a shootaround, and of course will take on Baylor at 5 p.m. MDT (7 p.m. EDT) tonight.
Here's my advance of tonight's game -- which figures to be a high-scoring affair -- and here's a column from Kurt Kragthorpe on the significance on the Cougars' postseason run.

Got a feeling after listening to coach Dave Rose talk several times yesterday that the Cougars would rather be playing a team other than Baylor. The Bears walloped BYU 79-64 in Waco, Texa...

BYU forward Brandon Davies says it will take quite an effort from the Cougars' big men to control Baylor's Isaiah Austin and Cory Jefferson tonight in an NIT semifinal at Madison Square Garden.

Davies appeared at a news conference on Monday afternoon to discuss the NIT matchup.

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Due to popular demand, here's more of the video I shot this morning of BYU basketball players Tyler Haws, Brandon Davies and Brock Zylstra in Times Square.

I readily admit I'm not even an average videographer.

The Cougars will take on Baylor on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden in an NIT semifinal game (5 p.m. MDT, ESPN2).

Most of the people that stopped the players asked them who they were, or if they were NBA players.

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BYU basketball coach Dave Rose spoke from the podium at the NIT news conference on Monday at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown New York City.

Rose talked about how proud he is of his players, and how BYU turned its season around with a nice run in the NIT.

The Cougars will play Baylor on Tuesday night in a semifinal game at Madison Square Garden.

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BYU basketball players Brock Zylstra, Tyler Haws and Brandon Davies got out and walked around Times Square a little bit on Monday afternoon as part of a photo shoot for the NIT semifinals, which are Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.

The players didn't know they would be asked to go out on the streets outside the Marriott Marquis, where they are staying, which is why they were not wearing basketball shoes.

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You can get a lot done on a four-hour flight from Salt Lake City to New York City.
Like transcribe comments from the BYU basketball team and coach Dave Rose.
Saturday, before leaving for the Big Apple, the Cougars and Rose talked about their NIT run, and what they expect at Madison Square Garden from the Baylor Bears (Tuesday, 5 p.m. MDT, ESPN2).

Rose and selected players will appear at a news conference Monday, and I will have fresh comments and notes from that. In the meantime, here are some of those comments from Saturday:

Nate Austin on how three games later there is a different way to look at this season:

"I am glad we got the chance to play in the...

BYU basketball player Matt Carlino is a huge New York Yankees fan. And that's an understatement. Before the Cougars left Provo for New York City, Carlino talked about his excitement to not only play in the Big Apple, but to potentially attend a Yankees game while here.

The Yankees play host to the Boston Red Sox on opening day Monday.

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Greetings from the Big Apple, everyone.
While New York City is focused on MLB's Opening Day -- the Yankees and the Mets both have homes games today -- a sliver of this gigantic season has turned its attention to Madison Square Garden -- where the National Invitation Tournament will be played for the 76th time.
BYU is in the semifinals, of course, and will tackle Baylor on Tuesday at 5 p.m. MDT. Iowa and Maryland will follow.

Selected players from all four teams and the head coach of each team will appear at a news conference today at the midtown Marriott Marquis, and I will be there to bring you all the best details.
Until then, read about BYU's last two teams...

BYU basketball coach Dave Rose talked to reporters on Saturday, a day before the Cougars departed for New York City and the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Rose's Cougars have turned their season around with three straight wins in the NIT, and are playing in that tournament's semifinals for the first time since 1966.

This is Part I of the 14-minute news conference. Part II will follow.

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"Alright, go find Bronco, boys."

And with that BYU offensive coordinator Robert Anae signaled that he was done talking to the media for the day. It ended a rather interesting three minute session with reporters after BYU's Blue/White game on Saturday afternoon.
As I wrote in the report I just filed for the newspaper, Anae had all kinds of reasons to be pleased. The offense scored four touchdowns and a field goal in nine series over 65 plays, roughly, but Anae said it wasn't fast enough.
He also took a few jabs at the media. This time, Anae didn't ask the purpose of questions, as he did a few weeks ago. Instead, he basically told us what to write. Should be an interesti...

BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall talked to the media after the Cougars' spring Blue/White game at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday.

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Here's my report from BYU's Pro Day, which was held Thursday on campus at the weight room and the IPF. I mentioned it in a couple of tweets yesterday, but it bears repeating: the athletic department and sports information staff did a bang-up job in putting on the event, complete with a banner proclaiming that it was Pro Day outside the IPF, and a 2013 Pro Day Guide which featured full-page, color bios of all the participating players from BYU.

A couple of scouts mentioned to me that it was the best set-up for a Pro Day that they had seen.

Eleven former players worked out for 32 scouts from 24 NFL teams and one Canadian Football League team. Defensive linemen Russell Tiala...

That lengthy football signing list that BYU announced in February has another addition.
JCFootball.com reported Thursday that the Cougars have received a commitment from Robertson Daniel, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound defensive back from De Anza Community College in Cupertino, Calif.
Cupertino, of course, is the birthplace of Apple Computers.
Robertson Daniel (those of us with first names for last names and vice versa know his pain) played two years for De Anza and had 90 tackles and six interceptions. He earned first-team juco All-America honors after the 2011 season.
He sat out last year to clear up some academic issues.
BYU can't announce the addition until it receives Da...

BYU senior defensive end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah talked to reporters after BYU's Pro Day on Wednesday at the school's Indoor Practice Facility.

Ansah, projected to go in the first round of April's NFL Draft, did not run the 40-yard dash Wednesday or do any other timed or measured drills. He did some defensive-line drills, most notably with a coach from the Oakland Raiders who worked him to the point of exhaustion.

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It isn't the Final Four that most BYU fans wanted when the basketball season began, but it is quite the accomplishment, nevertheless.
The resurgent Cougars ripped through Southern Mississippi 79-62 on Wednesday night in an NIT quarterfinal in Hattieburg, Miss., and will now play in the NIT semifinals on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Cougars will have a rematch with Baylor, which advanced to the NIT Final Four with a home win over Providence. Iowa and Maryland will meet in the later semifinal Tuesday. Baylor drubbed the Cougars pretty good in Waco back on Dec. 21, the night after the Poinsettia Bowl, 79-64.
But this is obviously a different BYU te...

As I noted in this preview of tonight's BYU basketball game at Southern Miss, the Cougars have yet to win a game this year that they were not supposed to win. Seeing as how they are 6-point underdogs tonight at Reed Green Coliseum in Hattiesburg, it is going to take an effort heretofore not seen for BYU (23-11) if it is going to reverse that trend and pull off the upset against USM.
Looks like BYU will face not only a good USM team, but also a rowdy crowd in the game to be televised by ESPNU.
Here are a couple of articles in the Hattiesburg American and the Clarion-Ledger that pretty much spell that out.
Green Coliseum seats around 8,000, and very well could be sold out be...

Having defeated Mercer 90-71 on Monday night at the Marriott Center in front of a decent-sized crowd of 12,929 in the second round of the NIT, the Cougars quickly turned their thoughts to who they will play next in what many people refer to as the National Inconsequential Tournament.

Clearly, though, this tournament means a lot to the Cougars. And it meant a lot to Mercer coach Bob Hoffman, who was one of the most animated coaches to ever pace the MC sidelines on Monday night, but cooled down in time for the postgame news conference. He was nothing but a gentleman there, and had high praise for the Cougars and the MC crowd, in his postgame remarks.
The NIT obviously means a lo...

After BYU's 90-81 win over Mercer on Monday night, Brandon Davies and Matt Carlino appeared at the postgame news conference to talk about the second-round NIT game....

BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall talked after practice on Monday about the Blue-and-White spring game the team will conduct on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.

Mendenhall said the first-team offense and second-team defense will comprise one team, and vice versa. The quarterbacks will wear green jerseys and will be off-limits to hitting.

The event begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at the stadium, and also includes an Easter egg hunt for kids at the track stadium nearby.

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As you can read in this advance in today's Tribune, the BYU men's basketball team is back in action tonight at the Marriott Center, taking on No. 7 seed Mercer in an NIT second-round game. It's a rare Monday night game for BYU, which generally avoids games that conflict with the LDS Church's Family Home Evening program.
Obviously, the Cougars aren't calling the shots, or they would have played last Friday or Saturday.
The game will be televised by ESPNews, which is Channel 207 on DirecTV, Channel 402 on Comcast and Channel 142 on Dish Network.
If you are going to the game, or can't watch it live at 7 p.m. MDT, it will be replayed on BYUtv at 10 p.m. and on ESPNU at 11 p.m....

BYU senior Brock Zylstra talked to reporters after practice on Friday afternoon about the Cougars' second-round NIT game against Mercer at the Marriott Center. The game is Monday at 7 p.m. MDT.

The Cougars seem to have plenty of respect for Mercer, which won the Atlantic Sun Conference and finished a game ahead of Florida Gulf Coast in that league. FGCU knocked off Georgetown on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament.

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Only five BYU basketball players have scored more than 700 points in a single basketball season. One of those players is Tyler Haws.
With 37 points in Tuesday's 90-79 win over Washington, the Cougar sophomore pushed his total to 706 this season, joining Jimmer Fredette (1,068 in 2011, 751 in 2010), Devin Durrant (866), Danny Ainge (782) and Michael Smith (765).
"Ty was outstanding from the start," BYU coach Dave Rose said after the game. "He had one little run there in the first half where he missed consecutive shots, but other than that he was so consistent, and what really helped him tonight were the opportunities in transition. He runs so hard, sometimes we miss him in transiti...

BYU basketball coach Dave Rose said the Cougars played as well as they've played all season -- for an entire 40 minutes -- in Tuesday night's 90-79 win over Washington in an NIT first-round game.

The Cougars await the winner of tonight's Tennessee-Mercer game and will host a second-round game either Friday, Saturday or Monday.

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Tyler Haws scored 37 points and Matt Carlino had 20 points -- including 18 in the second half -- as BYU ousted Washington 90-79 from the NIT on Tuesday night at the Marriott Center.

The guards appeared at the postgame news conference to describe the win.

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Having played just one game in the last 17 days, BYU's basketball team should be rested and ready to go tonight when it takes on Washington (18-15) in an NIT first-round game at the Marriott Center. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m., the game will be televised nationally by ESPN, and plenty of tickets are still available.
While BYU is fresh, but perhaps a tad rusty, Washington has played three times since March 8, which is when the Cougars fell 72-69 to San Diego in Las Vegas.
The Cougars went hard last week in practices, and again on Monday, coach Dave Rose said.
"Last week's practices, I was really impressed with our guys. You get in a spot where you don't really know for sure if you ar...

BYU basketball player Brandon Davies talked about Tuesday night's NIT game against Washington after the Cougars practiced on Monday, March 18, at the Marriott Center.

Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. MDT for the first-round game, BYU's first NIT game since it lost 77-67 at Houston in 2006.

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BYU offensive coordinator Robert Anae talked to a throng of media members after the Cougars practiced on Monday, March 18. There were some awkward exchanges as Anae questioned the purpose of some questions.

Anae has returned to BYU to take his former position as OC after a two-year stint at Arizona. He was visibly upset during the final segments of practice that the media was allowed to watch as the offense sputtered a bit and was clearly out of sync.

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So how many folks are going to show up in the Marriott Center on Tuesday night for BYU's NIT opening-round game against 18-15 Washington of the Pac 12?
Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar predicted 13,000 or 14,000 in this article in the Seattle Times.
Although I didn't sense a lot of optimism from BYU fans after the Cougars fell out of the WCC Tournament some 10 days ago with a loss to San Diego, I am going to say Romar's prediction is a good one. I'm thinking around 13,000 as well. We will see.
It is significant, however, that students who have All-Sport passes will get in free. Will some fans stay away because the 7:30 p.m. game will be televised by ESPN?

Judging fr...

Not long after BYU earned a No. 3 seed in the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the school released ticket information for Tuesday's game against 18-15 Washington.

The first-round game at the Marriott Center will be free to students who have an All-Sport pass. Admission for students without an All-Sport pass is $4. Apparently, BYU's athletic department is picking up the tab for the students.
The game will be televised live on ESPN (7:30 p.m. MDT).

Go here for more on the game and what Washington brings to the table.

And here's more ticket information from the email:

Legacy 1-5 reserved seat tickets:

Tickets are on sale now by logging ...