BYU basketball and Clemson find themselves in a back-and-forth clash in an early-season men’s college basketball showcase game at Madison Square Garden in the Jimmy V Classic.
The Big 12 vs. ACC clash, however, experienced a brief delay in the second half. … And it wasn’t for an injury.
The delay at Madison Square Garden was instead because of a bent rim on BYU’s side of the court that came from an emphatic dunk from BYU forward Keba Keita.
The bent rim led to an extended delay with members of the facility staff at The Garden bringing out ladders to the court to remove the padding on the net to level the rim. For the trouble, BYU and Clemson were given three minutes each to warm up on the court before the second half resumed.
As a result of the delay, the start of Game 2 of the doubleheader at The Garden between Florida and UConn was delayed and didn’t start on time at its original 9 p.m. ET tipoff.
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Clemson pieced together an impressive first-half performance against BYU, led by its 11 second-chance points and nine points off four caused turnovers.
BYU came out of halftime strong with a 12-1 run to cut the deficit to 10 points at the 15:16 mark, with nine of those points coming from Cougars star freshman AJ Dybantsa. That start to the half was enough for Dybantsa to get going in his Madison Square Garden debut, as he scored 12 of BYU’s next 16 points to force Clemson to call a timeout after he made it a one-point game with a layup at the 5:13 mark of the half.
BYU would go on to win 67-64 behind a Robert Wright game-winner, so every point counted.
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