Provo • A basketball team that is 3-13 overall and hasn’t won an away game or a conference game this season normally doesn’t strike fear into a winning program playing on its home court.
But the Pepperdine Waves are different when it comes to playing BYU, as Cougar fans know.
“They play extremely hard, and [Pepperdine] has had our number here for quite a while,” BYU associate head coach Heath Schroyer said Wednesday as the Cougars (13-4, 2-2 WCC) prepared for Thursday’s 7 p.m. tip with the struggling Waves at the Marriott Center.
Pepperdine, 0-4 in league play and losers of seven straight games, has won only once in six games in Provo since BYU joined the WCC.