{"id":212693,"date":"2026-03-20T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212693\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:19:20","slug":"byu-ends-season-with-disappointing-first-round-exit-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212693\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU Ends Season with Disappointing First Round Exit to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">AJ Dybantsa tried to will BYU to a win, but the Cougars didn\u2019t get enough from outside AJ and fell to Texas 79-71 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Missed threes and BYU\u2019s inability to slow down Texas big man Motas Vokietaitis were two of the Cougars\u2019 down falls. Motas had a double-double in the first half with 15 points and 10 rebounds and finished the game with 23 points and 17 rebounds. BYU as a team shot 4-22 from three compared to 8-22 from Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Motas was 3-11 from the foul line and opened the door for BYU to get back in the game in the final 90 seconds, but two empty possessions for BYU down 75-71 closed the door on any comeback attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BYU had several injuries this season, but this season is arguably the most disappointing season in program history. AJ was every bit as good as advertised, but the Cougs weren\u2019t good enough defensively and didn\u2019t get enough for anyone outside of AJ to make BYU a serious threat against tournament-caliber teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa tried to will BYU to a win, but the Cougars didn\u2019t get enough from outside AJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8671,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-212693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-byu-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}