Faith has always been important to Steve Cleveland, but there are some things you need to see to really believe. On Friday, when No. 8 BYU hosts No. 25 North Carolina in an exhibition game at the Delta Center (7 p.m, ESPN+), the former coach will catch a glimpse of something he never saw coming.

“Probably not,” Cleveland told the “Y’s Guys” livestream show this week. “Especially where college sports is today. The whole dynamic has changed. There is no way I could have.”

Instead of the 1-25 program Cleveland inherited in 1997, he will see a BYU team take the floor that features the world’s top recruit , a roster built to reach the Final Four and the highest preseason ranking in program history.

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