Keita leads Utah against No. 14 BYU after 23-point game

BYU Cougars (8-0) at Utah Utes (6-2)

Salt Lake City; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST

FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -4; over/under is 152.5

BOTTOM LINE: Utah faces the No. 14 BYU Cougars after Keba Keita scored 23 points in Utah's 88-86 win over the Southern Utah Thunderbirds.

The Utes are 4-0 in home games. Utah ranks sixth in the Pac-12 with 9.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Keita averaging 2.7.

The Cougars play their first true road game after going 8-0 to start the season. BYU is the Big 12 leader with 45.6 rebounds per game led by Noah Waterman averaging 6.8.

Utah makes 48.1% of its shots from the field this season, which is 9.2 percentage points higher than BYU has allowed to its opponents (38.9%). BYU scores 19.5 more points per game (91.9) than Utah gives up (72.4).

TOP PERFORMERS: Branden Carlson is scoring 17.3 points per game and averaging 6.3 rebounds for the Utes. Gabe Madsen is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers for Utah.

Jaxson Robinson is shooting 48.0% and averaging 16.9 points for the Cougars. Trevin Knell is averaging 12.1 points for BYU.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.