I hope lil brother wins.
Although the football rivalry officially ended this year the basketball rivalry unofficially ended about a decade ago. BYU has won like 50 straight. I don't think the Jimmer ever even came within 20 pts of losing to lil brother and he played them like 8-10 times!!!
BYU has more of a rivalry in Basketball with Utah St, San Diego St, St Mary's, and UVU than with Utah. Ever since that fat guy who liked that Kentucky girl retired, lil brother's basketball program has been a big bad joke. When was the last time lil brother did anything? Mike Doleac and that old nuggets PG were players? Wasn't Charles Barkley still playing and that def shrimp guy in Seattle? Seattle actually had a team back then!!!
It would do wonders for the interest of the general public if Utah made this a real rivalry again. I hate having to always go to California or Washington to play a good team in Basketball.
I love easy automatic wins but it sure would be nice if lil brother could beat big brother once every 1-2 decades in basketball to keep things interesting.