Which is a rarity these days.

College basketball is slowly adopting more of an NBA game. That means bigs will be given the opportunity to stretch the floor if they want to do that and demonstrate ability. What kind of message are you sending after cutting a freshman off from development after such a small sample size? Pope and his staff are very fluent in advanced analytics. They leverage that with their recruiting. They give a ton of positive feedback to the players and try to put them in situations where they can be successful. This approach is going to open opportunities to recruit better athletes in the future as well as develop the ones they have now to their full potential.

And finally, for those still wanting BYU bigs to stick around the basket, what finishing ability have you seen inside when the paint is congested to give you confidence BYU's bigs will make a healthy percentage of those contested interior shots? The whole concept of stretching the floor with your bigs is to pull the other team's bigs outside to open up the floor.