Provo • It was definitely one of the lowest points of Dave Rose’s 14 seasons as head men’s basketball coach at BYU.
Fourth-ranked Gonzaga walked into the Marriott Center the last day of January and handed the Cougars their worst home loss in Rose’s tenure, a 93-63 beatdown in front of a national television audience and a somewhat disappointing crowd of 15,396 — which was easily fewer than 10,000 when the stomping mercifully ended.
It was BYU’s third loss of 19 or more points in the month of January, its seventh double-digit loss of the season, and it dropped the Cougars’ record to a pedestrian 13-10 overall, 5-3 in West Coast Conference play.