KenPom — widely regarded as the go-to college basketball analytics — released its first rankings of the 2021-2022 season and has BYU ranked 38. This is the highest BYU has started in Mark Pope’s three years at BYU — BYU started 71 in 2019 before finishing 13 and started 88 last season before finishing 20.
KenPom projects BYU with a 20-9 record and 10-6 in conference, with a 0.01% chance to go undefeated. This doesn’t include the two additional games BYU will play in the Diamond Head Classic, where BYU is the highest rated team.