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BYU takes down No. 19 Arizona thanks to absurd phantom foul

There are many ways for a ranked team, like No. 19 Arizona, to lose to a non-ranked team, like BYU. The Wildcats experienced one of the worst ones on Saturday.

A back-and-forth Big 12 game in which neither team ever led by double digits ended in controversy in Tucson when the Cougars got an absolute gift of a foul in crunch time.

With less than five seconds remaining and down 95-94, BYU forward Richie Saunders drove into the paint then ended up with his back to the basket. He tried to spin out of the reach of Arizona's Trey Townsend and ended up on the ground, missing a severely off-balance shot.