The computers appear to be higher on BYU hoops than the humans heading into the 2023-2024 season.
KenPom — widely regarded as the go-to college basketball analytics — released its first rankings of the 2023--24 season and has BYU ranked 36 out of 362 D1 teams. This is the highest preseason ranking in Mark Pope’s 5 years as BYU head coach. BYU started 71 in 2019-2020 before finishing 13, started 88 in 2020-2021 season before finishing 20, started 38 in 2021-2022 before finishing 58, and started 44 last season before finishing 77.