SALT LAKE CITY — The BYU basketball team’s win over Saint Mary's last week provided a respite from a disappointing season, but by now it’s pretty clear: Unless things change dramatically, it’s business as usual this season.
Or at least business as the Cougars have known it since joining the West Coast Conference, the league to which they were banished so the football team could take a stab at independence. It hasn’t been good for either team.
This is Year Eight of the strange alliance between BYU and the WCC. No one seems too restless about it — maybe because it’s not football — but this is a league the Cougars should own; far from it, they have never won a championship and seem to be in decline.