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How has Saint Mary’s risen to a Top 25 basketball program in the WCC? Can BYU do it, too?

Playing connected, disciplined basketball and valuing every possession. Those traits — and attention to sticky, team-oriented defense — have carried the Saint Mary’s men’s basketball program to national prominence.

With the help of fiery new assistant coach Heath Schroyer, BYU coach Dave Rose is trying to instill those attributes into his own program this season in an attempt to get the Cougars out of the good-but-not-great rut they’ve been in the past half-dozen years.

“I would say it is safe to say right now that they are in a little run of probably their best teams that they’ve had in the history of their program,” Rose said about the No.