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Jan 8, 2020
12:04:57pm
Eddie All-American
I don't know about the Beehive Classic...
...but scheduling neutral games at Vivint was something that Rose liked and did quite a bit of. It wasn't just the local teams and the Beehive Classic.

Pre-Beehive Classic, Dave pushed USU for a 1-1-1 series. Home and home with a neutral at Vivint mixed in. USU fans would cry and moan - saying that Dave didn't dare to play them in Logan because he knew BYU would lose. So he was chickening out and trying to schedule neutral games. Never mind that by saying this they are essentially saying that they only hope USU has of competing against BYU is in Logan - because on a neutral court BYU beats them every time. Ha!

But yeah - essentially you are correct. BYU fares better in Logan than USU does in Provo. So I'm not sure what the whining is about - either way they lose.

Just one minor quibble - this data is for the last 15 games, which is actually only 14 years. The first year included in the data is also the last time BYU/USU played a home and home series (two games) in the same season. That was 2004-2005. USU actually won both games that year - it's the last time USU won in Provo.
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