I looked at this because this team was absolutely befuddling.

How could a team that has one of the all-time greats at BYU, coupled with some very solid players around him lose to such bad teams and not even make the tourney?

To me the answer is that while KC had a very unique skill set that hasn't been seen at BYU, or at the NCAA, in a long time - if ever - He was not just sort of a liability on pure offense, he was actually an offensive liability on a level we've never seen before for someone who consumes so many possessions. I don't put this on KC, I believe that he was utilized in a manner that highlighted these weaknesses. He was a gamer and a leader who played hard and did some great things. He just shot too poorly to shoot as much as he did.

The larger picture is more disturbing.

Since the Fredette team of 2010, we have not had a team that did not have one of it's top three "consumers" of possessions be not just inefficient, but unbelievably inefficient (low 0.8) - Whether that was Carlino or Collinsworth.

Conversely, when I look at the top three of Utah, St Marys and Gonzaga (our three biggest rivals we struggle against), their least efficient player in their top 3 has been:
Utah: 0.98
St Mary: 1.03!!
Gonzaga: 0.98

Hard to compete when your best player is converting possessions in the 0.8* range and the other teams WORST star player is converting at close to 20% better than your star.

Until our top 3 players can stop being turnover machines, forcing and taking bad shots, and get their efficiency up near 1, we'll struggle with inconsistency and losing inexplicable games.