College basketball insider Jon Rothstein tweeted Monday that the start of the sport’s 2024-25 men’s season is 15 weeks, or 105 days away.
Earlier in the day, Rothstein published a great preview of the men’s Big 12 Conferenceand there were many mentions of the BYU Cougars and Utah Runnin’ Utes.
Most notably, Rothstein ranks BYU as the ninth best of the conference’s 16 teams and Utah as 14th. He has Kansas at the top and Oklahoma State at the bottom.
On a list of 10 impact freshmen, Rothstein placed the Cougars’ two most touted additions, Egor Demin and Kanon Catchings.
On a list of 15 unknown transfers, Rothstein had two new players from BYU – Keba Keita (formerly of Runin’ Ute) and Mawot Mag (formerly of Rutgers).
A Utah player finally appeared on a list of 10 emerging players when Runnin’ Ute big man Lawson Lovering was mentioned.
Rothstein also designed the starting lineups and benches for each of the conference’s teams. For the Cougars, he has Dallin Hall, Trevin Knell, Demin, Mag and Fousseyni Traore as starters.
To Utah, Rothstein had Baylor transfer Miro Little, Gabe Madsen, San Francisco transfer Mike Sharavjamts, East Carolina transfer Ezra Ausar and Lovering.
