Family, friends and former teammates and coaches mourned the life of ex-BYU basketball player Jake Shoff after the 46-year-old father of four died Thursday in traffic accident

Former BYU basketball player Jake Shoff has been identified as the driver killed in an accident on Interstate 15 on Thursday that caused massive delays for several hours.

Jake Shoff played two seasons for the Cougars from 2002-04 and helped BYU to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.

Not that it was much of a secret in college basketball circles, but BYU basketball's ambition now is clear to literally the world.

Former Weber State and BYU men’s basketball player Jake Shoff died Thursday after a car crash, both schools announced Friday. Shoff died in a crash Thursday on Interstate 15 near the “point of the mountain” where Salt Lake and Utah counties meet,

The term “gentle giant” seems to have been created for Jake Shoff. The former BYU basketball player lost his life on Thursday in an auto accident on I-15. His brother-in-law, former Cougar football player Ben Criddle,

The man killed in a rollover crash on I-15 near the Point of the Mountain on Thursday has been identified as Jake Shoff, a former BYU student-athlete on the Men's Basketball team.

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