Jeremy Bikman

#facepalm - I didn't invent it...but I'm rapidly perfecting it. #startup #startuplife

@daren_collins Probably by underachieving (to some degree) during the regular season.

It was interesting to see that Texas beat a 31 win Gonzaga team today that was in the top 10 all year. Like Texas this year coming in at an 11 seed in 2021, BYU then faced a first 4 in (11 seeded) UCLA team that made it to the final 4 that year. How does BYU draw these teams?

@SBakerMD Bernese Mountain Dogs

What is the best dog breed?

Again, I love Indiana football and Curt Cignetti. But Indiana football isn't a Cinderella story. It's a pay-for-play story.

@davykevinp @BenBikmanPhD Ratio'd...

@BenBikmanPhD There is no compelling evidence that insulin resistance is a primary driver of hypertension.

Can he just grift in his own lane?

@gregwrubell The lack of effort, so often displayed by players not named AJ, is the only truly concerning thing I observed with this team. You can't control injuries, you can't always control your shot going in, but you can absolutely control your energy and work ethic.

A few statistical leftovers from last night-- BYU led for only 22 seconds against Texas and spent a great deal of time and energy this season digging into deficits. Last year, BYU trailed at halftime only seven times in 36 games (19% of games). This season, BYU faced a halftime deficit 16 times in 35 games (46% of games). BYU finished the season +15 points in 1st-half scoring, and +265 points in 2nd-half scoring--indeed, BYU was one of the best and most efficient 2nd-half teams in the country. BYU faced double-digit deficits in 12 of its final 16 games, with double-digit leads in only four games over the same span. *** BYU went 20-2 this season when outrebounding the opponent, 3-10 when being out-boarded or tied in rebounds. Texas won the glass game and the paint game. BYU went 18-2 this season with the paint-points advantage, 5-10 without it. *** Injuries depleted BYU's quality depth this season, and it was reflected last night, as BYU had zero bench points against Texas. In bench points per game, BYU went from being ranked 15th last season to 354th this season. In bench minutes percentage, BYU went from 14th last season to 267th this season. Roster composition and AJ Dybantsa's brilliance would dictate a starter-centric approach, but reserve production became a significant challenge when Dawson Baker went down, and an even greater issue after Saunders' injury. Dybantsa played 40+ minutes in six of his final 12 games; Robert Wright III had three 40-minute games down the stretch. *** The skills of Dybantsa and Wright III in particular meant BYU would be more iso-heavy, and the team assist rate came down as a result, but the drop was dramatic, from being ranked 32nd last season to 334th this season. BYU had only six assists v. Texas, the 2nd-lowest total of the season and the eighth game this season with single-digit helpers. BYU had nine or fewer assists in five of its final six games, and had more turnovers than assists five times in the final seven games. *** 3-point shooting wasn't a hallmark of this season's team, but it did dip in the absence of Richie Saunders. BYU made 10+triples 10 times in the first 25 games, then hit double digits 3s only once in the final 10 games (BYU was 8-3 this season with 10+ 3s). In games with Saunders, BYU shot 35.3% from the arc; in games without him, the number was 32.5%. BYU went from being ranked 40th in 3PFG% last season to 161st this season, and from 25th to 176th in 3PFGA rate. BYU's 4-for-22 arc outing v. Texas was its 2nd-lowest 3PFG total of the season and 2nd-lowest 3PFG % (18.2). Interestingly, BYU won at Baylor with its worst 3-point performance (3-for-19, 15.8%)--so 3-point shooting isn't everything, but it's something. *** BYU last night dropped to 11-22 in NCAA tournament openers, 7-15 since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Since 1985, BYU is 5-7 in the first round as a favored seed. Tourney debuts have been a bit painful, but as Garth Brooks sang, "I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss The Dance." If a season has to end with a loss, be happy that it ended in the NCAA tournament, as it has in each of the first two seasons of the Kevin Young era. *** On that note, we'll call it good for 2025-26. I love numbers and stats, and the perspective they bring to the outcomes on the court. Head coach Kevin Young and his staff are cognizant of BYU's statistical/analytical advantages and shortcomings at a much deeper level, and Coach Young is uniquely equipped to synthesize them and adjust accordingly. I look forward to the next iteration of Cougar hoops in 2026-27. Go Cougs!

@HolySports04 Available talent, outside of AJ, was almost assuredly worse than last year's team. Diamonde and Mboup are ridiculously athletic but far too inexperienced to be considered talented...yet.

BYU’s roster last year was not nearly as talented but was almost perfectly constructed. Dallin Hall, Egor, Fouss, Mawot, as well as others. This year the talent was greater but the pieces of the roster didn’t fit together like last year

@BYUSportsNation 1) AJ by a country mile. 2) A few amazing highs. 3) Far more depressing lows. 4) Biggest gap between preseason expectations and reality in program history.

QOTD: How will you remember the 2025-26 BYU basketball season?

@BYUSportsNation ...it turns out, in fact, you can do something about it.

"It's basketball, it happens. Theres nothing you can do about that." Khadim Mboup breaks down the game tonight, and his freshman season.

BYU had better be careful tonight. Something is in the water today.

North Korea's population is about to shrink by 18, 634...

@financedystop It doesn’t take 20 years of training to properly read a chest xray. This is one of the most basic, straightforward, routine types of scans that come across a radiologist’s worklist on a daily basis.

This doctor is stunned that 20 years of training can now be replicated by AI diagnosing these X-rays in seconds.

@BenBikmanPhD Yep. It already gets backed up quite a bit during the summer and now with the construction it’s only gonna get worse. And any time there’s an accident both lanes will get shut down for several hours. That’s just what happened. I didn’t move 1 inch for over an hour.

@JBikman Because of the construction?

US-189 from/to provo canyon is going to be an absolute nightmare this summer

@Thiss_Youu @DNIGabbard If only time stood still, and nothing ever changed…

Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.  After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion.

@kissapittman @RickyDoggin The number of ranchers that would willingly strand their dog like that is somewhere to the right of the decimal point. The only people who would believe otherwise live in cozy suburbs.

@JBikman @RickyDoggin There are despicable ranchers just like there are despicable engineers.

Every year here on the prairie the shepherds move their sheep down onto our mountain prairie to stage before making the final journey to their wintering grounds from the mountains. Sadly, these beautiful livestock guardian dogs are mostly just tools and are often abandoned here. It seems like there’s always four or five that are left behind and that’s just the ones I’m hearing of. Well today I found one and here is the story 💕

A cordial debate between significant government involvement in healthcare and AI, and limited government involvement. You can probably guess which side of the argument I align with. #LLMs #health #HealthcareInnovation youtube.com/watch?v=RKA25N…

A huge challenge for AI is the same thing that's plagued healthcare for years, namely not being able to access all of the data. And until we truly solve the data illiquidity problem, caused by a chronic lack of true interoperability, this isn't going to fundamentally change. forbes.com/sites/digital-…

@reality_1323 @RickyDoggin No rancher abandons their dogs.

@JBikman @RickyDoggin They abandon the dogs? 😭