BYU Cougars ahead Lauren Gustin (12) reaches for a move in entrance of Rice Owls forwards India Bellamy (12) and Ashlee Austin (22) throughout a Girls’s Nationwide Invitation Match basketball sport on the Marriott Heart in Provo on Friday, March 17, 2023. BYU misplaced 71-67. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
The most effective participant on the BYU Cougars’ ladies’s basketball group final season has entered the switch portal.
A number of retailers reported Sunday afternoon that Lauren Gustin, who led the whole nation in rebounding through the 2022-23 marketing campaign along with averaging 16.1 factors per sport, will look to proceed her profession elsewhere.
On Sunday night, Gustin introduced it on Instagram, writing, “Cougar Nation, I can’t thanks sufficient for the love and help you may have given me the final 4 years at BYU. It has been such a privilege to be part of the ladies’s basketball program.”
Gustin went on to thank quite a lot of totally different teams of individuals, after which concluded the put up by writing, “As a graduate pupil with only one 12 months of eligibility remaining, I've entered the switch portal to discover extra alternatives.”
The 6-foot-1 Gustin was named Deseret Information Ms. Basketball in 2018 earlier than starting her collegiate profession at Idaho.
After a brief stint there, Gustin returned to Utah to play at Salt Lake Group School after which transferred to BYU.
In three seasons with the Cougars, Gustin has been great. Following the 2020-21 season she acquired AP honorable point out recognition and All-West Coast Convention First Workforce honors.
The next 12 months she once more acquired All-WCC First Workforce honors, after which within the 2022-23 season she was dominant, as she registered 27 double-doubles in 33 video games.
In 10 video games, she reached a minimum of 20 rebounds (she averaged 16.7), logging a career-high 27 on March 4 towards San Francisco.
In 4 video games, she tallied a minimum of 20 factors and 20 rebounds.
Assuming Gustin does actually depart BYU, that clearly leaves an enormous gap for the Cougars to deal with as they enter their first season within the Large 12 Convention.
Within the 2022-23 marketing campaign, head coach Amber Whiting’s first on the helm of this system, BYU completed with a document of 16-17 and earned a berth within the WNIT, the place it misplaced within the first spherical to Rice.