The Cougars are headed across the country to New York City to take on Alabama on Friday afternoon in the Barclays Classic. But instead of playing a top 25 team at Barclays Center, the home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, BYU is being forced to play on a much smaller stage: the 2,500-seat gym at Long Island University-Brooklyn.
“It just happened about four weeks ago, five weeks ago, we found out,” Rose said this week. “Not a very good explanation from the promoter, but we are stuck. That’s what we got. So obviously we wouldn’t have signed up for this thing if we would have known we were going to play the Barclays Classic at LIU.