For some reason, BYU's offense has failed to kick itself into gear in the first half of basketball games. There is no obvious deficiency, no foundational flaw, with Kevin Young's team makeup, with an All-Conference shooting guard, a five-star point guard who specializes in opportunity creation, a pair of shot-blocking bigs, shooters filling in the corners, oh, and let's not forget AJ Dybantsa, the number one recruit in the class of 2025.
Yet against UConn, Arizona, Kansas, Clemson, and nearly every great team the Cougars have faced, the opening half has just been horrid.