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BYU Basketball: Reviewing a rollercoaster 2017-18 season

It’s not often that a season plays out pretty much exactly like most experts predict. It’s even less often that it happens in such an up-and-down manner, but that’s exactly what happened for BYU basketball this year.

Entering the season, Ken Pomeroy predicted that the Cougars as the 72nd best team in the country.

They finished 71st.

Preseason prognosticators predicted that they’d finish third in the WCC.

They finished third

BYU didn’t exceed expectations, nor did they fail to meet them. They hit them right on the nose.

But starting before the year even began, the Cougars’ season could really be split into four parts, with some pretty high highs and some even lower lows.