BYU Basketball is heavy on upperclassmen this season, with two seniors and eight juniors. Usually that’s a recipe for success, since players tend to improve with experience and work.
Yet the Cougars are struggling through their worst season in more than a decade. And there are a myriad of reasons:
- Poor defense, especially on the road.
- No reliable third scorer behind Yoeli Childs and TJ Haws
- Panic when things go wrong, compounding an opponent’s scoring run
Those aren’t the things you’d expect from a veteran team. Usually the added experience helps teams keep calm in bad situations and play focused defense, but that hasn’t been the case for BYU.