PROVO — You have to hand it to Elijah Bryant. He really does have the “it” factor.
It may not be enough to help BYU deliver another win at Gonzaga Saturday night, but Bryant’s brilliance was in full bloom in his last game, a 76-69 loss to Loyola Marymount on Thursday.
In the stinky-pie loss to lowly and 10-point underdog LMU — another inexplicable WCC lower-tier flop by the Cougars — Bryant simply elevated, found his role and delivered his game through some pretty dire circumstances.
Bryant had every excuse to have a bad game. You could say he had a great case to just sit out most of this game with a towel on his head on the bench or in the locker room.