For the billionth time — actually, just the 224th — Utah and Utah State played a basketball game against one another — this latest one suspended out there somewhere in a cloud of egos over the past seven years, finally being realized on Saturday night at Vivint Smart Home Arena.
It took the first Beehive Classic, a two-game event that halved and pushed together Utah’s four biggest programs, including BYU and Weber State in the nightcap, to get that seven-year itch scratched, to reactivate the longtime rivalry.
Whether it was worth the wait — USU coach Tim Duryea had called it an in-state “must-see” — depends on how much of a prisoner of the moment you want to be.