BYU women\u2019s basketball just scored its most impressive win of the young Lee Cummard era.<\/p>\n
The Cougars rode a second half rally to upset previously undefeated Arizona State 71-62 Saturday at the Marriott Center in Provo, moving to 13-2 on the season and 2-1 in Big 12 play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved the moxie, the swag our team played with today and the energy they had as a group,\u201d Cummard said postgame. \u201cI loved the defense in the third quarter. More than anything, I really loved seeing the ball go through the net on some of those bingo 3s in the second half, where we got offensive rebounds and capitalized on them. <\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, this was a tough game, and it will be a tremendous battle playing them out in Tempe in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
After trailing by six points at halftime, BYU finished the night on a 43-28 surge in the second half to stun a Sun Devils squad that was riding a 15-game win streak to open the season.<\/p>\n
BYU\u2019s 71 points scored was the second-highest total allowed by Arizona State thus far in the season.<\/p>\n
Delaney Gibb led the Cougar charge with 18 points, eight rebounds and three assists, while freshman Sydney Benally added 16 points, five rebounds and three more assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Though BYU only shot 38% from the field and coughed up 26 turnovers, the Cougars earned their victory by dominating on the glass. <\/p>\n
Cummard\u2019s group grabbed more offensive rebounds (26) than Arizona State had total boards (25), with BYU ending the contest with a grand total of 54 rebounds, led by 11 from Kambree Barber and eight from both Gibb and Bolanle Yussuf.<\/p>\n
With the win, BYU has already matched its 2024-25 win total (13), only needing 15 games to do so compared to 30 last season.<\/p>\n
The Cougars will now head on the road for matchups with Arizona and Houston next week. Upon returning to Provo, BYU will face currently-ranked foes in No. 22 Baylor and No. 21 Texas Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BYU women\u2019s basketball just scored its most impressive win of the young Lee Cummard era. The Cougars rode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,1111],"class_list":{"0":"post-516137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115837125051664026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516137","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=516137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}