Across the first month of the regular season, BYU has been prone to somewhat underwhelming first half showings, banking on late surges to pull out victories.

The Cougars had trailed at halftime in four of their seven November contests, including each of their Thanksgiving week matchups at the ESPN Events Invitational in Florida.

But No. 9-ranked BYU finally figured out how to get things going right out the gate again Wednesday night against Cal Baptist, as a 15-4 Cougars opening run snowballed into an eventual 90-61 victory at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

“It’s something that we talked about for this game,” BYU head coach Kevin Young told reporters of the strong start. “You know, obviously we played really well, but look, I mean, that’s a (Cal Baptist) team that you look at the N

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