BYU women’s basketball wins West Coast Conference regular season title

FILE — BYU gamers have a good time after successful a recreation towards Gonzaga on the Marriott Heart in Provo on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Saturday, the Cougars defeated Pacific, 82-52, to clinch their first regular-season WCC title since 2016.

Mengshin Lin, Deseret Information

The BYU Cougars ladies’s basketball workforce is the champion of the West Coast Convention, at the least so far as the common season is anxious.

With their 82-52 thrashing of the Pacific Tigers on the highway Saturday, the Cougars locked up their first regular-season convention crown since 2016.

It marks the fifth convention title general for BYU since Jeff Judkins turned head coach in 2001. The Cougars will enter subsequent week’s WCC match as the highest seed, and thus they’ll get byes all the best way to the semifinals.

“I knew that this workforce had an opportunity to be among the finest we’ve had at BYU,” Judkins mentioned postgame. “A whole lot of gamers sacrificed to get right here and now they've likelihood to do one thing particular.

“We've got much more work to do however I couldn’t be extra happy with the exhausting work they’ve put on this 12 months.”

BYU (25-2), ranked No. 19 on this week’s Related Press Prime 25 ballot, has an opportunity for a high 16 seed within the NCAA Event, which might imply it will host its first two video games (ought to it win within the first spherical).

On Saturday, the Cougars jumped out to an 11-0 lead and cruised to the win. Shaylee Gonzales led the best way with 18 factors, Paisley Harding added 14, Tegan Graham scored 12 and Lauren Gustin contributed 11.