Portland, Ore. • Forgive Dailyn Swain for being a little tired.

Texas’ all-conference player, and potential NBA first-round pick, spent Tuesday night in-and-out of sleep on a last-minute plane ride from Dayton. After beating North Carolina State in the First Four, the Longhorns ran into plane issues that didn’t allow the charter to take off until 3 a.m.

“I would say I got like six hours, maybe,” Swain said Wednesday. “That’s the most.”

Bleary eyed as he may be, Swain still had no trouble mapping out the scouting report for Thursday’s matchup with BYU.

It’s not hard. It starts and ends with potential No. 1 NBA draft pick AJ Dybantsa.

Even if he’s exhausted, Swain can get up for that challenge.

“He’s a super talented player, potentially the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft. I see myself as an NBA player in the future as well. I’m a competitor, for sure it brings that energy out of me,” he said.

The six-seeded Cougars will see No. 11 Texas for their opening act of the NCAA Tournament. Dybantsa is the obvious attraction, seeing how far the top player in college can take his team.

Dybansta could fall into the lineage of Steph Curry, Kemba Walker and Jalen Brunson as NBA prospects to go on deep tournament runs. But Texas head coach Sean Miller sees Dybantsa akin to a player who never had a crack at the tournament.

“I guess you start at the top and think about what LeBron [James] does in the NBA and what makes him so unique. What position is he? He’s like a one-man wrecking crew. He can do so many different things,” Miller said. “AJ is his own player, obviously, but that’s the unique path he goes down. AJ, he’s that positionless player. I don’t really know what position you want to call him. He can do it all.”

Dybantsa led the nation in scoring at over 25 points a game. He broke the Big 12 Tournament record for most points, 93, and averaged nearly 30 since the calendar turned to March.

BYU head coach Kevin Young let him loose to score in nearly every way possible — off the bounce, in the midrange and pulling up from three. But Miller is highly concerned about Dybantsa’s ability to get to the free throw line, where he scored almost seven points a night.

“I think his ability to get fouled is maybe unlike anything I’ve seen simply because he shoots eight free throws a game,” Miller said. “He can do it around the rim, driving, kind of in that odd spot, 15 to 17 feet from the basket. It’s a real gift for not only him, but for BYU. AJ is that scoring punch, getting fouled and doing it in a different way where he has the ball in his hands at his size.”

When Miller coached at Arizona, he had a number of NBA players on the roster. That included current Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen, a 7-foot sharpshooter. Still, Miller believes Dybansta might be better than all of them. At the very least, his skill set is nothing alike.

“I would call him generational,” Miller said. “I can’t give you the words and accolades to describe him. He is a great, great player. A player that we don’t often see in college. You can go a long period of time and not see somebody like him.”

When Miller got past NC State on Tuesday night, he had plenty of time to think back to his own experiences with BYU. He coached against former BYU leader Dave Rose on his stops at Arizona. At the time, BYU was a quality team.

But this version of the Cougars is completely different, with potential NBA picks all over and a higher level of investment.

Now at Texas, it’s Miller and the Longhorns answering questions as the underdog against Dybantsa. Miller is just hoping to spring an upset.

“They’re clearly competing for the top prize,” Miller said. “You look at the top teams in that league, Iowa State, Houston, Kansas, they’re one of the top teams. No doubt we’re playing against a quality opponent that’s investing in their program. You feel that. I think they’re going to be in this tournament in a prominent role for years to come.”