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New BYU basketball hire, an analytics specialist, is a ‘game-changer’ for the program, Mark Pope says

New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope said when he was hired in April that he is a big believer in analytics and uses that data a lot in his coaching.

He followed through with that promise on Friday by announcing he has hired Nathan Bubes as the program’s coordinator of strategy and analytics. Bubes worked for the Los Angeles Lakers as a coaching associate last season and was with Boston College for two years prior to that as head coach Jim Christian’s graduate assistant.

“Nate Bubes is 100 percent, unequivocally, without hyperbole, a total game-changer for our program,” Pope said in a school news release.