PROVO, Utah – Chris Burgess will return to BYU as an assistant coach, BYU men’s basketball head coach Kevin Young announced on Wednesday afternoon. "Chris and I quickly connected," Young said. "I was ...

PROVO, Utah (ABC4 Sports) – Chris Burgess was thought to be a head coaching candidate at BYU before Kevin Young got the job. But Burgess is coming back to Provo anyway, after being hired as an ...

BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess poses for photos while at the Marriott Center Annex in Provo on Friday, May 3, 2019. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News) The Y. and BYU's environment ...

PROVO — By all accounts, the University of Utah hit a home run when it pulled spirited alumnus Chris Burgess away from archrival BYU to become Craig Smith's newest assistant coach on the Hill ...

Gordon Monson: With the hiring of Chris Burgess, BYU basketball has turned Utah basketball into a soap opera As the Cougars rise, Craig Smith’s Utes appear to be in trouble.

Burgess left BYU three years ago to join Craig Smith at Utah, his alma mater. But now, Burgess will move back down to Provo and look to continue to build the program with Young.

On Wednesday, Kevin Young and the BYU basketball program announced the hiring of Chris Burgess as an assistant coach. The Cougars hired Burgess away from rival Utah where he was also an assistant ...

Two years after Craig Smith hired Chris Burgess away from Mark Pope's staff at rival BYU, new Cougars coach Kevin Young somehow got the former Duke and Utah star to return to Provo.

The men’s college basketball coaching career of Chris Burgess has included three major moves within 50 miles of each other: From Utah Valley he tripped to BYU then Utah and now back to BYU.

New BYU Cougars head men’s basketball coach Kevin Young doesn’t have much — if ... Young was speaking at a Cougar Club event when he told a story about how assistant coach Chris Burgess left ...

As for why Burgess came to BYU, he said there were multiple reasons. Working with Young (who was the top assistant in the NBA) is a big one and so is the culture of BYU in terms of a work environment.