{"id":255156,"date":"2025-09-26T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:13:08","slug":"jon-rothstein-visits-byu-utah-utah-state-basketball-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255156\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rothstein visits BYU, Utah, Utah State basketball \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">National college basketball analyst Jon Rothstein took a visit to the state of Utah on Thursday and stopped by the campuses of BYU, Utah and Utah State in preparation for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rothstein, who works for CBS and is known for the many catchphrases he has come up with, posted on X throughout the day Thursday about his visits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rothstein is among the many who consider the Cougars a top 10 team in the country heading into the season, so perhaps it makes sense that he offered more insight on his stop to Provo than he did in Salt Lake City and Logan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758856388_982_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Palpable Buzz at BYU practice surrounding Southern Illinois transfer Kennard Davis. Elite perimeter defender. All over 50\/50 balls. A Glue Guy to monitor in the Big 12 and nationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1971320828664205505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Richie Saunders is cooking today at BYU practice. Going to get significantly more clean looks with AJ Dybantsa and Rob Wright. Made 79 three-point shots last season. Could make 100 in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1971321167710650820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The two biggest areas where AJ Dybantsa stood out today? Defense and three-point shooting. Shot the ball with tremendous confidence and also disrupted a number of plays defensively. A special talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1971321420216180819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The development of BYU\u2019s bench is going to be critical. Cougars have to continue to extend their production. Like the look today of Xavion Staton today as a stretch 5 if\/when Keba Keita is out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1971321943371698203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Early prediction on BYU\u2019s 2025-26 starting five:<\/p>\n<p>Rob Wright, Kennard Davis, Richie Saunders, AJ Dybantsa, Keba Keita<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1971322133738614926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rothstein also posted short videos about his visits at Utah and Utah State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2025-26 college basketball season is officially scheduled to begin on November 3.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National college basketball analyst Jon Rothstein took a visit to the state of Utah on Thursday and stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,3920,2076,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68,78609,28056],"class_list":{"0":"post-255156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-byu-cougars","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-utah-state-aggies","19":"tag-utah-utes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115268420086482040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}