Provo • Freshman guard Connor Harding has two people to thank for getting him interested in BYU — his stepmother, Alison, and his neighbor growing up in Pocatello, Idaho, a former Cougar quarterback by the name of Taysom Hill.
“My eighth-grade year, my stepmom wanted me to come to BYU’s basketball camp,” said Harding, now a 6-foot-6 freshman at BYU after a church mission to Atlanta. “My dad [Robert] didn’t want me to come. So she actually signed me up, drove me down here and got me going. I did OK and the next thing I know, coach [Dave] Rose is watching me play and I’m getting some recruiting attention from them.