Provo • Two teams that don’t look much like they did a year ago will square off in the Marriott Center on Thursday night as streaking BYU hosts middling Portland in a West Coast Conference opener.
Actually, BYU already looks different than it did last week when it defeated Idaho State and Texas Southern to finish the nonconference portion of its schedule with an 11-2 record and on an eight-game winning streak.
Seldom-used junior guard Kajon Brown left the team and 6-foot-9 freshman forward Kolby Lee joined it as the senior-less Cougars got younger and more inexperienced.