New Mountain West Schedule Creates Strange Date for Rivalry

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › February 07, 2006

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Long gone are the days when Utah and BYU would play their annual basketball games on Saturday night with no extra games during the week to spoil the buildup to the big game.

Thanks to expanded leagues with unbalanced numbers, the Utes and Cougars have been playing on Thursdays and Mondays, in addition to Saturdays in recent years.

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New Mountain West Schedule Creates Strange Date for Rivalry

But in the 97-year, 240-game history of the series have they ever played on a Wednesday before, as they are tomorrow night?

Yes.

Just once.

It happened back in 1984, on the...

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