Rob Wright Sat in Mark Pope's Living Room and Chose BYU Anyway. Now What?

Rob Wright heard the Kentucky pitch, slept on it in Lexington, and woke up Wednesday morning and went back to Provo — BYU coach Kevin Young called him the best point guard in college basketball, and Wright decided he'd rather prove it there than anywhere else. That's a gut punch for a program that just lost its top two scorers to graduation, watched Jayden Quaintance declare for the NBA Draft after four games, and now can't land its top point guard target with the portal closing April 21. But stop before you panic: Sebastian Rancik — a 6-10 stretch forward who averaged 12.3 points and 5.6 rebounds at Colorado — canceled Indiana to visit Lexington this week. Magoon Gwath, 7-foot-0, is coming next. Pope built two straight NCAA Tournament rosters out of portal windows exactly like this one — six days left on the clock, and the man has never missed a closing bell.