{"id":382901,"date":"2025-11-16T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382901\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:53:15","slug":"social-media-reacts-to-aj-dybantsas-star-showing-against-uconn-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382901\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media reacts to AJ Dybantsa&#8217;s star showing against UConn \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Despite taking a narrow loss, the story of Saturday night\u2019s BYU-UConn matchup in Boston was AJ Dybantsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of the Boston area playing on the Celtics\u2019 home floor, Dybantsa bounced back from a slow first half to pour in 21 points after halftime in leading BYU\u2019s late comeback effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The basketball world was buzzing about the potential No. 1 NBA Draft selection\u2019s outing. Here are some of the most notable reactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dan Hurley on AJ Dybantsa in second half: \u201cThat\u2019s as high level shot-making as you\u2019re gonna see in college basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/1989893969904357543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AJ Dybantsa is absurdly talented. But what makes him different is that he has that killer instinct when the light turns on. Did it versus Villanova and again late versus UConn. That\u2019s why he has the chance to be the face of American basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robby McCombs (@rtmccombs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtmccombs\/status\/1989888714995372464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AJ Dybantsa is so so good. Best wing scorer we&#8217;ve seen in a minute<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBKReport\/status\/1989883964371415433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite taking a narrow loss, the story of Saturday night\u2019s BYU-UConn matchup in Boston was AJ Dybantsa. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":382902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,1680,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-382901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-news-feed-local","11":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115559242645476836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382901","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=382901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}