Can Cougars build upon breakthrough road win at Colorado?

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BYU guard Egor Demin goes up for two during victory over Colorado in Boulder Tuesday night. Demin had a solid night and a big second half for the Cougars. | Nate Edwards, BYU Photo

Coach Kevin Young’s BYU basketball team got one of the monkeys off its back Tuesday night, and we’re not talking about recording a basketball victory in Boulder, Colorado, for the first time since 1902.

“Nothing is coming easy. We just gotta keep going. It has just been the moral of the story. … We gotta keep finding solutions.”

BYU guard Richie Saunders after victory over CU

In its first game at Colorado since 2015, BYU rolled past the Buffaloes 83-67 to get its first true road win of the 2024-25 season.

“It was big,” Young acknowledged. “… I get that there are obviously differences playing on the road. What you have to do is focus even harder. We focused on the game plan very well tonight, and that is something that we can certainly bottle up and take with us when we get back out on the road after the (next two games, which are in Provo).”

With a 3-4 record in the Big 12, 12-6 overall, BYU can get above .500 if it can hold serve in the Marriott Center beginning Saturday (8:30 p.m. MST, ESPN2) against Cincinnati (12-6, 2-5), which lost 81-71 at home to Texas Tech on Tuesday.

Three days after that late-night special, the Cougars will host Baylor (11-6, 3-3) before heading off to Orlando for a fourth game in two seasons against UCF.

“Nothing is coming easy. We just gotta keep going,” said BYU star Richie Saunders after scoring 25 points on 10-of-15 shooting against the Buffaloes. “It has just been the moral of the story. … We gotta keep finding solutions.”

That’s what the Cougars did in Boulder, climbing a substantial mountain after the home team took a 32-22 lead and seemed to have the visitors — albeit backed by a sizable contingent of BYU fans at CU Events Center — in trouble as Young searched for answers from his bench.

He got some in the form of 6-foot-10 junior…

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Publish date : 2025-01-22 23:05:00

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