Conor McGregor was an unlikely guest on the floor of Tuesday's BYU-Baylor men's basketball game in Provo, Utah, where the former UFC champion was apparently embraced by the Cougar faithful. 'Not the BYU you thought you knew,' one fan wrote on X amid widespread confusion over McGregor's presence at the famously pious school.
![[McGregor acknowledges the fans during the first half between BYU and Baylor on Tuesday]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/29/15/94642219-14338265-image-a-31_1738165446142.jpg)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young founded his eponymous college in 1875 and since then students have been adhering to an honor code that famously forbids sexual relations outside marriage, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and vulgar language.
![[McGregor poses for photos with head coach Kalani Sitake of the Brigham Young football team]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/29/15/94642203-14338265-image-a-32_1738165453786.jpg)
There are even dressing and grooming standards that could conflict with McGregor's famously tight clothes and patchy beard. McGregor, on the other hand, has been ordered to pay $257,000 to the woman who accused him of raping her in 2018 on a night when he was admittedly using cocaine. Furthermore, McGregor and the NBA's Miami Heat are currently facing a federal lawsuit over claims the MMA legend sexually assaulted a woman in a bathroom at the Kaseya Center while security stood guard outside the stall.
![[McGregor was sitting courtside at Delta Center in Salt Lake City for the Jazz-Bucks showdown]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/29/15/94602441-14338265-McGregor_was_sitting_courtside_at_Delta_Center_in_Salt_Lake_City-a-33_1738165470485.jpg)
But while McGregor has maintained his innocence in these cases, and BYU campus guests aren't subject to the honor code, basketball fans were nonetheless stunned to see him on the floor at the J. Willard Marriott Center. Conor McGregor is a BYU fan confirmed pic.twitter.com/9oE1NvUzho.
