Excitement for BYU’s most highly-anticipated basketball season in history may have reached its peak Thursday night.

It was flat-out physically obvious.

The line of BYU students waiting to get into the Marriott Center for the program’s annual Marriott Madness pep rally stretched all the way back to the administration building on campus, with the outside of the arena crowded with fans beforehand and the lower bowl inside almost completely filled for the festivities.

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“Just driving in, just seeing all the students kind of flooding the surroundings of the Marriott Center, it was cool,” head coach Kevin Young said afterward.

“It just g

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