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Behold, Payton Dastrup: BYU basketball's Greatest Showman — and it's no act

Jacob Wiegand, Deseret News

BYU forward Payton Dastrup goes airborne after the Cougars make a basket during the Cougars' 75-73 overtime win against the San Francisco Dons at the Marriott Center in Provo on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018.

PROVO — From his perch on the bench, Payton Dastrup is easily BYU basketball’s Greatest Showman.

His fist-pumping, arm gyrations, windmills, dance moves and hand motions aren’t a three-ring circus act. There is no trapeze, use of animals or ingesting of swords, but there is little doubt Dastrup is BYU’s most effective player/cheerleader in history, a Hugh Jackman in his own Cougar right.