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BYU Basketball: Lessons learned from beating Oral Roberts

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BYU Basketball took care of business on Thursday night, taking down Oral Roberts 85-65.

It was a game that BYU should have won easily, and they did win it fairly easily, although they never could quite turn the game into a complete blowout.

Here are the biggest takeaways from the win over the Golden Eagles:

Sluggish Start

Once again the Cougars started the game off slowly on both ends of the court. Oral Roberts hit 40% from deep in the first half, allowing the Golden Eagles to stay with BYU through the first 15 minutes.