Houston vs. BYU Game Analysis: Battle of the Cougars

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00:00Houston versus BYU this one keeps getting me a tongue tied because it's

00:06the Cougars versus the Cougars which Cougar is gonna be on the bigger prowl

00:09here 7-7 tied up now the first quarter has come to a close Houston actually

00:14opened up the scoring but BYU I mean they've kind of muzzled their chances in

00:18a number of ways they went from perfection to just kind of a landslide

00:21but we were expecting them to probably close out on a stronger note although

00:25Houston has presented problematic defensively for a number of teams

00:29earlier in the season kind of looking to get back in rear form right now what

00:33do you make of this game so far yeah for BYU they came into this one

00:37laying close to ten points almost sitting at double digits they went off

00:41as nine and a half point favorites they get through the first day it's locked at

00:45seven apiece and for the Cougars you know you highlighted it was a lot of

00:50promise and a lot of expectation going as close as you know three weeks ago

00:55they yeah they dropped back-to-back losses again against Kansas and then

00:58Arizona State and there's a really good chance that they're gonna be in a dog

01:02fight late in this one as well you know you've got to keep in mind some of these

01:06other programs you know for a Houston Cougars who was sitting at four and

01:10seven three and five in conference play this is their championship game this is

01:15their Super Bowl for a lot of young guys they're trying to prove their worth even

01:19if your starters maybe aren't getting all the reps out there the twos and

01:23threes are trying to prove that they should absolutely be in the

01:26conversation once they come in to you know a new year next season so there's

01:30just always a little extra on the line and just when you think that it could be

01:35caught napping here we are BYU Cougars really in a bit of a scrap going in to

01:41the second quarter so it's locked at seven apiece it's not a bad one to jump

01:44in and live bet if you will I really don't see a way in which the Cougars

01:48separated well I should say the BYU Cougars they're both Cougars I don't

01:53think BYU you're gonna run away with this one I think the closer that Houston

01:56keeps it going into the halftime break they're gonna be live in the second half

02:00and trying to win this thing straight up yeah I guess in this one we're looking

02:03for the Alpha Cougar I get I don't know I'm just trying to find a way to

02:06separate the two but we don't want to get too crazy with any of that 1320 now

02:11left in that second quarter as it continues to remain deadlocked