BYU basketball delivers Kansas its biggest unranked loss in school history

BYU basketball took down the 23rd-ranked Kansas Jayhawks to the tune of 91-57.

I feel like I'm living in a cartoon where a bowling ball-esque bomb has exploded in my face, leaving charred blackness everywhere and my hair blown back to look like a brunette Cloud Strife.

In other words, I'm blown away.

The Cougars took control of this game from the very beginning, jumping to an 8-0 lead from the jump. The 3s were falling in this one -- not to the degree they did in the blowout against Cincinnati, but close -- and the Cougars were not afraid to lay down the hammer.

After last season's upset in Allen Fieldhouse over then number-seven Kansas, visions of that upset ignited the spark of hope in the home crowd. Kansas, just taking a loss to a mediocre Utah team in Salt Lake City immediately before making the 45 minute trip down to Provo, is reeling after another team personally delivered the Beehive Boot.

BYU got out to a lead and never let the Jayhawks keep it close. Bill Self's Kansas teams always earn the benefit of the doubt in March Madness projections, but their 6-7 seed projection in recent bracketology will certainly be under further examination.

For Kevin Young and the Cougars, their team is clicking and every cog, every piston, and every little piece has found its place to get their basketball machine fully operational. It's all coming together, and just in time, too.

"A lot of teams aren't built like we're built," Kevin Young stated following his team's romp. "Particularly in this league, when we've got that much shooting across the board, and we've got a big man rolling, our system's constructed that way."

"If teams want to take away the paint, we'll take what they give us. Rather, some nights they try to take away the 3, we get to the rim. That was Kansas State. This game, they tried to take away the rim, and we get to the 3."

They certainly got to the 3 in this one, knocking through 14 3-pointers at a rate of 38.9%. But in a game where the Cougars won by 34 -- the most a Bill Self-coached team has ever lost to an unranked opponent, and the Marriott Center delivered a brutal backing track that erupted with every made shot.

A sellout crowd in Provo led to one of the most complete victories in program history. 5 Cougars scored in double digit, with Richie Saunders leading the way on 22 points of his own in 30 minutes of play. Hall tallied 8 assists off the bench to pair with Egor's 5 dimes.

The moment of the game had to be Egor's stepback 3-ball over Hunter Dickinson. A vision of last season's iconic dagger from Dallin Hall, Demin struggled to shoot the ball for much of the game but ignited the home crowd. The sealing blow was Keita's spike out of bounds to a Kansas floater that truthfully could have simply been caught.

BYU delivered a win not many will soon forget -- on either side -- and now has a very strong case for a March Madness berth.

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