Provo • A day after coach Dave Rose proclaimed that BYU’s best basketball in the 2018-19 season “is ahead of us and in front of us,” the Cougars were thoroughly dominated by No. 4-ranked Gonzaga Thursday night at the Marriott Center.
Gonzaga handed BYU its worst home loss in Rose’s tenure, a 93-63 beatdown that might have surpassed New Mexico’s 90-48 thrashing in 1997 for worst margin of defeat ever in Provo if coach Mark Few hadn’t called off the dogs with three minutes, 24 seconds remaining.
It was as humbling a loss as the Cougars have experienced at home in quite some time, considering the Zags held BYU to 37 percent shooting and scored 50 points in the paint, many of those points on thunderous dunks.