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How to watch no. 9 BYU Basketball at Utah

BYU Basketball’s on the road for a rivalry game at the University of Utah on Saturday night.

The Cougars are 14-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big 12. BYU last played on Wednesday night at the Marriott Center against the Arizona State Sun Devils, winning by a final score of 104-76.

The Utah Utes are 8-7 on the season and 0-2 in Big 12, with losses to Arizona and most recently at Colorado on Wednesday. The final score for Utah against Colorado was 85-73. Utah hasn’t had a win since Dec. 20 against Eastern Washington at the Huntsman Center.

BYU and Utah have met 266 times in the past with BYU having the 135-131 edge, despite losing three out of five of its last visits to Salt Lake City. ESPN’s Matchup Predictor gives BYU an 88 percent chance of winning on Saturday night.

‘Gonna be a dogfight’: What the BYU-Utah rivalry means to new generation of Runnin’ Utes

The University of Utah basketball team is getting a crash course education this week in what the BYU-Utah rivalry means to both schools.

There’s only one Runnin’ Ute on this year’s roster, junior forward Keanu Dawes, who has ever played against the Cougars.

On top of that, most Utah players this season are from other parts of the country or are international players — there are no Utes who hail from the Beehive State — so when Utah hosts No. 9 BYU on Saturday (8 p.m. MST, ESPN), it will be their first taste of the bitter rivalry.

“I just know it’s called the Holy War,” said Utes fifth-year forward James Okonkwo, whose college career has taken him to West Virginia, North Carolina and Akron before Utah.

Why this year’s Utah-BYU game is a full-circle moment for two former NBA coaches

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah men's basketball head coach Alex Jensen, left; and BYU men's basketball head coach Kevin Young.

Nearly 14 years ago, two young coaches chowed down on the best wings Des Moines, Iowa, had to offer and bonded over the game of basketball.

Both men were early in their coaching careers and looking to make a name for themselves in the NBA’s Development League — now known as the NBA G League.

These two basketball savants were Iowa Energy coach Kevin Young and Canton Charge coach Alex Jensen.

Since that shared meal in March 2012, both coaches have climbed through the ranks, rising out of the NBA training grounds and eventually finding themselves as two of the most renowned assistant coaches in the NBA.

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