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With Dybantsa now presumably focusing on his NBA<\/a> Draft preparation, he did offer a prediction for who will be the last team standing in this year’s NCAA Tournament when appearing on Yahoo Sports Daily.<\/p>\n “If I had to choose, I would choose Arizona,” Dybantsa said. “Big 12, played them twice, I know how they get. Any of those four teams are obviously capable, but I think I’d go Arizona to win it all.”<\/p>\n Dybantsa also offered a bit of a scouting report for both Arizona and Michigan.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “Arizona’s super physical, so you definitely have to match their physicality,” Dybantsa said. I think Michigan probably has one of the best chances to beat them due to their size. But that was a big problem for us just having a 7-foot-1 guy in there…”<\/p>\n BYU Cougars forward AJ Dybantsa (3) during the second half against the Villanova Wildcats.Candice Ward-Imagn Images<\/p>\n (Candice Ward-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n In BYU’s two meetings with Arizona, they lost 86-83 back in January and fell again to the Wildcats 75-68 in February. While Dybantsa is likely not fond of those memories, he clearly respects his fellow Big 12 competitors.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n In a battle of No. 1 seeds, Michigan and Arizona will face off on Saturday at 8:49 p.m. ET in a game that will air on TBS.<\/p>\n Related: College Basketball Star Audi Crooks Announces Career News on Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Apr 2, 2026, where it first appeared in the College<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one of the more shocking recruiting developments in recent college basketball history, No. 1 overall recruit AJ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[2695,382,7,4928,1580,3294,217,85938,1582,1739,231,772,1400,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-694569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-aj-dybantsa","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-big-12","12":"tag-byu","13":"tag-byu-cougars","14":"tag-college-basketball","15":"tag-college-basketball-history","16":"tag-cougars","17":"tag-michigan","18":"tag-ncaa","19":"tag-ncaa-basketball","20":"tag-ncaa-tournament","21":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337013666186583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BYU](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/731bcc521690135d4c1037bf6b6374a2.jpeg\"\/)
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