It's been well-documented that the preseason number 8 BYU Cougars are standing at the gate of the most highly anticipated season in the basketball program's history. To think that losing head coach Mark Pope to Kentucky would open a path for an NBA-quality head coach in Kevin Young to alter the trajectory of this Provo-based hall of hoops? Sometimes reality is less believable than fantasy.
Young led the team to a Sweet 16 appearance in his first season at the helm, but everyone around the program understood that as good as last season's team was (shoutout to Egor Demin), this season was something different altogether: a coalition of competition.