Focus on toughness, togetherness, has spurred BYU basketball's turnaround

March 6, 2025

By Jay Drew, Deseret News: A lot of teams would have collapsed after giving up a 21-point lead on the road in one of the most hostile environments in all of college basketball and being on the wrong side of most of the whistles down the stretch in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday night.

But these BYU Cougars have shown the past month that they are not an ordinary team in building a seven-game winning streak, five of those victories of the Quad 1 variety, to earn a top-four seed or better in next week’s Big 12 tournament and put themselves squarely in the Big Dance.

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How No. 23 BYU went from being 'punked and pushed around' in January to one of the hottest basketball teams in the country in February and early March

Teams that lose 21-point leads and all the momentum on an opponent's home floor rarely recover, but that's what BYU did Tuesday night at No. 10 Iowa State

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