BYU Cougars
Overall: 3-0 ⋅ Big 12: 0-0 ⋅ Last 5: 2-0
THE OPENING TIP
After a 3-0 start for the fourth consecutive season, the Cougars play Bethune-Cookman for the first time in program history on Wednesday.
Last time out, Delaney Gibb made Cougar history by recording the program’s first triple-double since 1986. The last triple-double came on Dec. 13, 1986, when Tresa Spaulding Hamson recorded 32 points, 15 rebounds and 11 blocks. The last triple-double featuring assists was notched by Valerie Cravens, who had 17 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists on Jan. 4, 1982, against New Mexico.
Against Montana, the Cougars set season bests in points (97), made field goals (37), field goal percentage (.561; 37 of 66), made 3-pointers (12), 3-point field goal percentage (.480; 12 of 25), free throw percentage (.846; 11 of 13), assists (23), steals (13) and blocks (5).
SHARING THE LOVE
For the first time this season, all 11 players who saw action entered the scoring column. Four Cougars scored in double figures, led by Olivia Hamlin with 22 points, alongside 15 points apiece from Delaney Gibb and Kailey Woolston and 10 points from Prasayus Notoa. Three other Cougars—Sydney Benally, Stella Sakalas and Kambree Taylor—scored seven or more points, giving BYU seven players with at least seven points.
Led by Hamlin—one of the top players in the country at pushing the pace—BYU scored 24 points in transition and converted 19 opponent turnovers into 21 points. Head coach Lee Cummard’s squad dominated the glass, outrebounding the Lady Griz 46-22 (including 14-7 on the offensive boards), which led to 44 paint points and 22 second-chance points.
RIGHTING THE SHIP
After shooting a combined 8 of 33 from the floor (24.2 percent) and 1 of 19 (5.2 percent) from 3-point range in the opening quarter of their first two games, the Cougars righted the ship by going 10-for-17 from the field and 2 of 5 from deep in the first frame against Montana. BYU shot a season-best 56.1 percent from the floor and 48 percent from behind the arc in the win, including a season-high 12 triples.
The second half—a strength a season ago—continued to prove pivotal as BYU stretched a 15-point halftime advantage to 23 by the end of the third quarter, outscoring the Lady Griz 21-13 on 46.7 percent shooting. The Cougars then put the game on ice by besting Montana 30-9 in the final 10 minutes, going 11 of 17 from the field and knocking down nine triples. BYU scored 15 of its 30 fourth-quarter points in transition.
FAMILIAR COUGS
The Cougars boast the sixth-highest roster continuity in the country by minutes returned (71.1 percent), per CBB Analytics. Cummard returns four starters from last year’s squad, alongside Kailey Woolston, who started all 32 games in 2023–24 before missing the last two seasons while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU returns 72.3 percent of its scoring, 58 percent of its rebounding, 82.9 percent of its assists, 55.1 percent of its blocks and 76.5 percent of its steals production from a year ago.
IT'S GIBB'S WORLD, AND WE'RE JUST LIVING IN IT
Gibb currently sits seventh on the all-time BYU scoring list at 17.63 points per game, just behind two-time WCC Player of the Year Shaylee Gonzales. She is second in 3-point field goals per game (2.41), fifth in career assists per game (4.41), sixth in minutes per game (33:10), 12th in 3-point field goals made (152) and 14th in 3-point field goal percentage (.360).
Gibb was one of four unanimous selections to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, joining Baylor’s Talia Scott, Kansas’ S’Mya Nichols and Oklahoma State’s Audi Crooks. The junior was named to the Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Watch List for the second consecutive season—one of three Big 12 players selected—and earned a spot on the Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List.
After recording the first triple-double in BYU women’s basketball history on Nov. 7 against Montana, Gibb earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors and was named one of five USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Players of the Week.
YOU CAN COUNT ON CANNON
Brinley Cannon was an unsung hero for the Cougars in 2025–26, averaging 7.5 points per game while shooting 42.9 percent from the field and 35.9 percent from 3-point range. The junior pulled down 4.7 rebounds, dished 1.6 assists and recorded 1.4 steals per contest. BYU is 14-2 when Cannon scores in double figures, 9-3 when she tallies three or more assists and 7-1 when she records three or more steals. Cannon also increased her 3-point percentage from 27.7 percent as a freshman to 35.9 percent during her sophomore season
LUCKY NUMBER 7
Hamlin spearheads BYU’s transition attack, scoring 24 of her 46 points this season in transition. She averages 8.7 points per game in the paint and 8.0 in transition, ranking in the 95th and 99th percentiles nationally. She has scored 15 and 22 points in her last two games on 14-of-29 shooting from the field.
Olivia Hamlin earned All-Big 12 honorable mention, Big 12 All-Freshman Team honors and two Big 12 Freshman of the Week selections last season. She left her mark on the BYU freshman record book, finishing first in field goal attempts (458); third in total points (490), made field goals (186), steals (65) and minutes played (1,097:07); fourth in 3-pointers made (57); sixth in steals per game (1.71); seventh in 3-pointers per game (1.50); ninth in minutes per game (28:52); and 10th in points per game (12.90).
PERPETUAL PERIMETER PRECISION
BYU holds the second-longest active and third-longest all-time NCAA Division I streaks of games with a made 3-pointer at 835 consecutive games. The streak began on March 2, 2000, in an 86-69 win over Air Force. Chattanooga holds the longest active streak at 842 games.
