The 2010–11 BYU Cougars men's basketball team represented

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in the

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season. This was head coach Dave Rose's sixth season at BYU. The Cougars, in their final season in the

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, played their home games at the

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. The Cougars ended regular season play as co-champions with

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, and were the only team to defeat the Aztecs in regular-season play. Led by

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, the nation's leading scorer and consensus national player of the year, the Cougars advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament, where they lost in

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. This was the Cougars' final season as a member of the Mountain West as their basketball team became a member of the West Coast Conference in July 2011.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Rankings

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's than in the AP and Coaches Polls. On November 13, 2010 they were ranked 2 in Sagarin's rankings, while they were ranked as high as 1 in Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) on January 9 and 24, 2011, as well as on February 15 and 28, 2011.

Davies controversy

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was dismissed from the team on March 1, 2011 for the remainder of the season for a violation of the school's honor code. '' The Salt Lake Tribune'' published that the transgression involved the provision that prohibits

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. This led to a media frenzy in which the Honor Code was spotlighted and debated, particularly because Davies had not committed a criminal act, or even an NCAA violation, but instead a violation of Mormon and school ethics. Davies had started 26 of 29 games for the Cougars, averaging 11.1 points and a team-leading 6.2 rebounds. At the time, BYU had a 27-2 record and ranked No. 3 nationally, while analyst Joe Lunardi of

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had projected the Cougars as the No. 1

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in the West region for the 2011 NCAA tournament. After Davies' suspension, Lunardi maintained his stance that BYU should be a No. 1 seed as long as they continued to perform. The Cougars lost their next game 82–64 to

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(19–11), who beat BYU for the second time in the season, but quickly recovered in a 102-78 victory over Wyoming.

References

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