Both BYU and Utah have some "traitors" on their rosters, as Cougars coach Kevin Young said. That will only make Saturday's rivalry game that much more interesting.

Current BYU basketball assistant coach Chris Burgess has been on both sides of the state's best basketball rivalry; here's how he feels on the eve of the big game.

The Cougars' free throw shooting against Utah was emblematic of how the season has gone in Young’s first season in Provo. BYU has had opportunities to win games, but the fragility of basketball has them sitting at 11-6 overall this season and 2-4 in conference play.

In the program’s first conference clash against Utah since 2011, BYU suffered a 73-72 overtime loss to the Runnin’ Utes Saturday night in Salt Lake City. Once again, BYU fell short both on the road and late in the second half.

Kevin Young and the BYU basketball program lost an overtime heartbreaker to archrival Utah. With five seconds remaining and trailing 73-72, B

Returning talent Richie Saunders leads the Cougars in scorer with 12.9 points per game as he's made his transition from the bench to the starting lineup in 13 games, and Fousseyni Traore has perhaps been BYU's most consistently player while averaging 10.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game primarily off the bench.

Three days after dealing with the best defensive team in college basketball, BYU faces the best shooting team in the land on Tuesday when Texas Tech rolls into the Marriott Center

The Cougars' former starting point guard tied a season high with 14 points on 4-of-4 shooting off the bench in the 85-69 win over the Cowboys.

Set to finish off the Utah road swing, the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team will try to put last weekend’s ugly loss in the rearview when it takes on BYU on Tuesday.

The 73-72 overtime loss in front of 15,558 at the Huntsman Center — Utah’s previous attendance high this season was 7,922 — dropped the Cougars’ record to 11-6 overall, 2-4 in the Big 12, and was another reminder of perhaps BYU’s biggest problem in coach Kevin Young’s first season: a failure to finish.

BYU basketball coach Kevin Young has been searching for answers to a problem. He might have found them in Tuesday's win over Oklahoma State.

A contingent of BYU coaches, led by head football coach Kalani Sitake, used a private jet to visit four-star tight end Brock Harris in St. George last week. Then, they headed to northern California to visit five-star quarterback Ryder Lyons. Both are in the Class of 2026 recruiting class and are at the top of staff priority lists.