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• What Happened to Richie Saunders? How a Devastating ACL Injury Sidelined the BYU Star for March Madness
An ACL injury has ended Richie Saunders’ season, leaving the BYU Cougars without their key leader ahead of March Madness 2026....2026
• How To Watch Texas vs BYU: Live Stream, TV Channel, Betting Odds, Predictions

Disclosure: RealGM may receive a commission if you sign up for a service or purchase a product through the links in this article. These partnerships help support our independent sports coverage. The CHI Health Center Omaha hosts one of the most intriguing matchups of the opening round this Thursday, as the #7 seed Texas Longhorns face off against the #10 seed BYU Cougars. This high-stakes battle b...2026
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• BYU-Texas Injury Report: Latest Update on Richie Saunders, Lassina Traore’s Status for NCAA Tournament Opener
BYU's Richie Saunders is out for the season with a torn ACL, while Texas' Lassina Traore remains sidelined. Here's the full injury report for Thursday's game....2026
• BYU's Kevin Young Applies NBA Contract Model To Fund Dybantsa, Wright, Saunders

BYU has built its roster using an NBA-inspired model, maxing out three players and distributing remaining funds across the rest of the squad. Coach Kevin Young confirmed the approach last week, with freshman star AJ Dybantsa, point guard Rob Wright III and injured starter Richie Saunders serving as the program's highest earners. Wright, a former five-star recruit who left Baylor for Provo, is repo...2026
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• BYU's Kevin Young Applies NBA Max-Contract Model to Fund Dybantsa, Wright, Saunders

BYU has built its roster using an NBA-inspired model, maxing out three players and distributing remaining funds across the rest of the squad. Coach Kevin Young confirmed the approach last week, with freshman star AJ Dybantsa, point guard Rob Wright III and injured starter Richie Saunders serving as the program's highest earners. Wright, a former five-star recruit who left Baylor for Provo, is repo...2026
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• AJ Dybantsa Breaks Kevin Durant's Freshman Big 12 Tournament Scoring Record With 40

BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa delivered one of the most dominant individual performances in Big 12 tournament history Tuesday, scoring 40 points with nine rebounds and six assists to carry the 10th-seeded Cougars past 15th-seeded Kansas State 105-91 in the first round. The projected top-3 pick broke Kevin Durant's Big 12 tournament freshman scoring record of 37 points, set when Texas faced Kansas in 20...2026
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• What Happened to Richie Saunders? How a Devastating ACL Injury Sidelined the BYU Star for March Madness
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• BYU-Texas Injury Report: Latest Update on Richie Saunders, Lassina Traore’s Status for NCAA Tournament Opener
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• AJ Dybantsa Breaks Kevin Durant's Freshman Big 12 Tournament Scoring Record With 40
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• How to watch and live stream BYU Cougars vs. Arizona Wildcats NCAAM Big 12 basketball game
The high-stakes landscape of the Big 12 Conference reaches a fever pitch on February 18, 2026, as the No. 23 BYU Cougars travel to the McKale Center in Tucson to face the No. 4 Arizona Wildcats. This late-season encounter serves as a critical junction for both programs as they navigate the rigorous February stretch of the 2025-26 regular season, with significant implications for both conference st...2026
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• Richie Saunders injury latest: BYU star to miss rest of season with torn ACL
BYU star guard Richie Saunders will miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury on Feb. 14 against Colorado:...2026
• BYU guard Richie Saunders will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL
BYU guard Richie Saunders will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL, the school announced Sunday. Saunders was injured Saturday on No. 22 BYU’s first possession only 45 seconds into its 90-86 overtime victory over Colorado. “I think it sucked the life out of the gym, if I’m being honest,” BYU coach Kevin Young said after the game, before the team learned the severity of the injury....2026
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• Scouts See 2026 NBA Draft Opening Up After Top Five Picks

Darryn Peterson holds the top spot in ESPN's updated 2026 NBA mock draft, followed closely by AJ Dybantsa and Cameron Boozer. The three elite prospects have separated themselves at the top while scouts see significant variance beyond the first five selections. The draft lottery remains five months away, but all three top contenders are performing at impressively high levels in college. Peterson at...2026
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• AJ Dybantsa Ranked No. 1 In The Athletic's First 2026 NBA Draft Big Board
AJ Dybantsa claimed the top position in the first 2026 NBA Draft Big Board released this week by Sam Vecenie of The Athletic. The BYU wing moved ahead of Kansas guard Darryn Peterson and Duke forward Cameron Boozer in rankings that showcase what NBA personnel and analysts consider an exceptional draft class. The 6-foot-9 Dybantsa is averaging 23.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists while shootin...2026
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• Caleb Wilson, Kingston Flemings Lead Freshman Class Below 2026 NBA Draft's Elite Tier

While the 2026 NBA draft features a historically strong top tier, league evaluators view the depth beyond the elite prospects as comparable to an average draft year. NBA teams expect big-money NIL compensation to continue driving mid-tier prospects back to college, creating uncertainty about the overall class strength, according to ESPN's updated rankings. The consensus around the NBA remains that...2025
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• BYU Assembled Big Three, Role Players To Maximize AJ Dybantsa's Lone Season

BYU executed a three-step roster construction plan to maximize AJ Dybantsa's lone college season. The program landed the No. 1 high school recruit in 2025 and ESPN's projected No. 2 pick in the 2026 NBA draft, then strategically built around him. The Cougars first targeted an elite guard after Dallin Hall entered the transfer portal following their Sweet 16 loss. BYU pursued Baylor transfer Robert...2025
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• NBA Teams Treating 2026 Draft As Window For Franchise Player Amid Thin Future Classes

League sources are increasingly flagging the 2026 NBA Draft as a critical acquisition window, warning that the 2027 and 2028 classes lack the star-level talent that franchises covet, elevating the stakes of this year's lottery considerably. That urgency has tangibly influenced front-office behavior. Teams such as the Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards moved with notable competitive aggression at the...2026
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• AJ Dybantsa Ranked No. 1 In The Athletic's First 2026 NBA Draft Big Board
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• Caleb Wilson, Kingston Flemings Lead Freshman Class Below 2026 NBA Draft's Elite Tier
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• Kingston Flemings Rises To No. 7 In The Athletic's 2026 NBA Mock Draft

Houston guard Kingston Flemings has emerged as a major riser in the 2026 NBA Draft class, climbing to the No. 7 overall projection in an updated mock draft from The Athletic. The 6-4 guard is averaging 15.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and five assists while shooting 61 percent from the field and 52 percent from 3-point range. Scouts contacted for the updated projections spoke on the condition of anonymit...2025
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• Kingston Flemings Rises To No. 7 In The Athlteic's 2026 NBA Mock Draft

Houston guard Kingston Flemings has emerged as a major riser in the 2026 NBA Draft class, climbing to the No. 7 overall projection in an updated mock draft from The Athletic. The 6-4 guard is averaging 15.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and five assists while shooting 61 percent from the field and 52 percent from 3-point range. Scouts contacted for the updated projections spoke on the condition of anonymit...2025
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• Darryn Peterson Projected No. 1 Overall In ESPN's First 2026 NBA Mock Draft

Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson has emerged as the projected No. 1 overall pick in ESPN's first 2026 NBA Mock Draft released Tuesday. The guard is averaging 21.5 points through two games but has missed recent contests due to a hamstring injury. According to ESPN draft analyst Jeremy Woo, Peterson's "dynamic three-level scoring, impressive physical tools, defensive tenacity and competitive intangib...2025
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• ESPN Ranks Darryn Peterson No. 1 In Historic 2026 NBA Draft Class

ESPN released its top 100 rankings for the 2026 NBA Draft class, headlined by Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson at No. 1, with BYU's AJ Dybantsa and Duke's Cameron Boozer rounding out the top three. The draft is regarded as one of the deepest in recent memory. Peterson, an 18-year-old guard standing 6-foot-6, has emerged as the front-runner for the top pick after a dominant senior year of high schoo...2025
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• BYU's Kevin Young Applies NBA Contract Model To Fund Dybantsa, Wright, Saunders
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• BYU's Kevin Young Applies NBA Max-Contract Model to Fund Dybantsa, Wright, Saunders
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• AJ Dybantsa Breaks Kevin Durant's Freshman Big 12 Tournament Scoring Record With 40
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• BYU’s ‘Big 3’ Featuring AJ Dybantsa Just Outscored Their Big 12 Opponent All by Themselves
BYU’s big three, led by standout AJ Dybantsa, laid down a marker during the Cougars’ ruthless 104-76 demolition of the Arizona State Sun Devils on Wednesday. Dybantsa, Robert Wright, and Richie Saunders accounted for a combined 81 points, outscoring the Sun Devils by themselves. The win against Arizona State was historic as it was BYU’s […]...2026
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• Caleb Wilson, Kingston Flemings Lead Freshman Class Below 2026 NBA Draft's Elite Tier
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• Team Confidential: How Richie Saunders became the face of BYU — and of tater tots
Through family links Richie Saunders always wanted to play basketball at BYU. With that lifelong achievement also came the discovery of another family link that has accelerated his stardom off the court....2025
• Sweet 16 teams, ranked by national championship chances in 2025 men’s March Madness

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images Let’s rank the 16 teams still standing in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament by their national championship chances. The 2025 men’s NCAA tournament will certainly not go down in history for upsets and Cinderellas. The favorites held serve during the opening weekend of March Madness, setting up some high-powered matchups in the Sweet 16 and beyond. All four No. ...2025
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• March Madness 2025: The Best and Worst from Day 3

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images march-madness-2025-highlights-scores-recap-pitino-calipari-gonzaga-houston We’re getting there. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re getting closer. It’s going to happen. This tournament is going to find its stride. March Madness’ 3 best games of Day 3 1. (6) BYU 91, (3) Wisconsin 89 (East) BYU led from start to finish in this one, but that doesn’t mean the vi...2025
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• The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness

Photo by Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The madness returned in full-force on Thursday. Let’s break down everything that happened. Let’s just get this out of the way straight from the jump: If you were ranking the best opening Thursdays in NCAA Tournament history, this one wouldn’t be near the top. It wouldn’t be somewhere in the middle either. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t great...2025
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament College basketball is in a state of transition, and so too is the idea of the modern college basketball star. The defining players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament do not fit in any particular box. They come from every corner of the world, in all shapes and sizes, each with their own idiosyncratic stren...2025
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• 10 takeaways from the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament bracket reveal

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let the bracket reactions begin. We have a bracket, and now we have three days to talk about it. Let’s start immediately. Here are 10 immediate thoughts on this year’s field of 68: 1. The SEC was valued even more highly than we thought There was little doubt that Sunday was going to be the day the SEC was going to set a new record for t...2025
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• Men’s college basketball top 25 rankings after transfer portal closed

Christine Tannous/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The team that came excruciatingly close to cutting down the nets in 2025 is the early favorite to get the job done in 2026. The moving and shaking is far from finished, but the closing of the transfer portal leaves us with more clarity about the landscape of the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season than we had three weeks ...2025
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• Ranking every men’s Sweet 16 game by watchability in 2025 March Madness

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images If you can only watch one men’s Sweet 16 game this year, which should it be? The 2025 NCAA Tournament was missing upsets and a lot of drama during opening weekend. But the lack of Cinderella stories and double-digit seeds advancing means a Sweet 16 filled with gigantic matchups between power conference opponents. With only the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC r...2025
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• Men’s college basketball rankings: Breaking down the top 25 teams after NBA Draft declaration deadline

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here’s our early top 25 rankings for the upcoming men’s college basketball season. After two months of portal madness and dozens of stay-or-go NBA Draft decisions, we finally have a pretty clear picture of what most rosters are going to look like for the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season. With that in mind, let’s update some early rankings. 1. Hou...2025
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• How To Watch Texas vs BYU: Live Stream, TV Channel, Betting Odds, Predictions
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• How to watch and live stream BYU Cougars vs. Arizona Wildcats NCAAM Big 12 basketball game
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• NBA Teams Treating 2026 Draft As Window For Franchise Player Amid Thin Future Classes
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• Kingston Flemings Rises To No. 7 In The Athletic's 2026 NBA Mock Draft
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• Darryn Peterson Projected No. 1 Overall In ESPN's First 2026 NBA Mock Draft
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• ESPN Ranks Darryn Peterson No. 1 In Historic 2026 NBA Draft Class
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• Darryn Peterson, A.J. Dybantsa Lead Historic 2026 NBA Draft Class In Early Mock

The 2026 NBA Draft features unprecedented star power at the top, with four franchise-caliber prospects leading a class that NBA executives consider historically talented. ESPN's Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo released an updated 2026 NBA mock draft, projecting Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson to the Washington Wizards with the first overall pick. The 6-foot-6 guard earned the top spot after a pheno...2025
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• Men’s college basketball rankings: Breaking down the top 25 teams after NBA Draft declaration deadline
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