On Thursday, December 20, 2018, BYU Basketball lost a tremendous piece of its legacy when Mel Hutchins passed away at the age of 90.
In the March 17, 1951 edition of the Deseret News, the great sports editor for that publication — Hack Miller — wrote an article about the Collegiate Basketball National Championship game that was to be played at Madison Square Garden that evening. The headline of the article was “Cougars Should Win NIT.”
Think about that for a moment. Brigham Young University. BYU. The same school that you rise and shout for not only was playing in a National Championship basketball game — they were favored.