Through two months on the job, new BYU basketball head coach Kevin Young is off to a red-hot start. In the week following the departure of Mark Pope to Kentucky
, the future looked anything but bright in Provo. Then BYU made a splashy hire in Kevin Young – the NBA’s highest paid assistant coach and someone who was in line to be an NBA head coach. Young quickly got work filling out both the roster and his staff. Now, his staff is full and there is only one scholarship remaining.
The Chris Burgess hire was especially impressive considering he was a candidate to be the head coach. Most BYU fans would have been happy with as the head coach, but getting him as an assistant coach is a home run. It was Burgess that gave BYU an edge in the recruitment of Keba Keita. More on Keita in a moment.
Then BYU moved quickly when Keba Keita hit the transfer portal. Keita, an experienced big from the University of Utah, fit the description that Kevin Young was looking for: a rim-running big that could create gravity in the paint on offense and defend the rim on defense. Egor Demin, likely the highest-rated recruit in BYU history once he gets his official rating, committed to BYU. Demin is the kind of talent that BYU has rarely been able to get into the program as a freshman - he is a projected top 10 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Young was bold about his desire to make BYU a pipeline to the NBA, something that seemed like a pipe dream at the time. The Demin signing suddenly made that aspiration a legitimate possibility.
Then Kanon Catchings picked BYU as the cherry on top of all the offseason acquisitions. Catchings was recently projected to be a first-round pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. He is the highest-rated signee in BYU history , surpassing Eric Mika. Catchings' combination of size and skill is a luxury that BYU basketball has never really had.
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