With No. 1 recruit AJ Dybantsa in the house, expectations for last year's BYU men's basketball team were through the roof. Dybantsa led the country in scoring (25.5 points per game) but the Cougars — picked No. 8 in the Associated Press Preseason Poll — fell short of those high hopes, ...

Just when you thought the SEC and Big Ten were the biggest and baddest conferences in the land, along comes the Big 12 with three teams in the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 and the ACC with the No. 1 team. Five of the top seven teams lost Saturday, the most on one day in a regular ...

When considering national scope, coupled with the rounding validation that Saturday's 28-24 win over No. 2-ranked Notre Dame provided, it's hard to overstate the moment's significance. And BYU players and coach Kalani Sitake made no pretense otherwise. Following a hearty postgame ...

Here’s what’s going on inside Darnell’s head in the aftermath of the biggest BYU home football win in school history. What this amazing, incredible, emotional moment really needs is perspective. I can hear you all now. “OK, Boomer. What a buzzkill. Can’t you just rush the field, ...

BYU football beat reporter Brandon Gurney gives his grades for the Cougars' position groups and coaches for Friday's 28-24 win over Notre Dame at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah. Quarterback: A- Bear Bachmeier threw a pick, and did miss on a few throws, but that was it. The sophomore ...

Miami is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 2002, No. 2 BYU has its highest ranking since its 1984 national championship season and Notre Dame and Georgia stayed in the top five Sunday after both lost close games. The wildest and wackiest week of the college ...

Nobody felt the euphoria of a program-defining victory Saturday night more poignantly than the man at the center of it all: Bear Bachmeier. For BYU's sophomore quarterback, his four touchdown performance not only ushered the Cougars into the national spotlight, but also served as personal ...

All available hands needed to be on deck for BYU to defeat an opponent like Notre Dame, and Cougar players, particularly a trio of defenders heeded the call in helping secure Saturday's 28-24 win. Take BYU linebacker Isaiah Glasker as the first example. The senior outside linebacker left the ...

BYU women’s soccer gave up a goal on a defensive mistake less than a minute into Friday night’s showdown with No. 8 Texas Tech. The Cougars spent the rest of the match making up for it. Behind the first career brace from senior Mattyn Summers-Oviatt, No. 22 BYU rallied and upset Texas ...

Through a fairly humdrum, very exhibition-like first half against Nebraska on Friday, BYU’s obvious highlight was an alley-oop lob from freshman Bruce Branch III to junior Collin Chandler. In the second half, Chandler returned the favor to Branch as an exclamation point in a ...