It’s not a giant surprise that BYU Basketball sits in second place in the West Coast Conference at this point in the season.
Yes, the Cougars struggled in their non-conference slate, and a lot of those struggles still remain unresolved, but coming into the season most people expected BYU to finish either second or third in the WCC this season.
The bigger surprise is who’s sitting right behind them.
San Francisco is just a half-game behind the Cougars in the standings, and unlike BYU the Dons didn’t struggle in their non-conference slate. They knocked off Harvard, Cal, and Stanford, only losing two games in that stretch.