BYU women's basketball

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The Brigham Young University (BYU) Cougars Women's basketball program was established in 1971 and is coached by Jeff Judkins. The cougars play in the BYU Marriott Center and are part of the Mountain West Conference in NCAA Division I.

1 History
2 Notable Players
3 Notable Games
4 Titles/Notable Games
5 2007-2008 Season
6 See also
7 References

[edit] History

Brigham Young University’s (BYU) Women’s Basketball team began in the 1971-1972 season. Home games are played in BYU’s basketball arena, the Marriott Center, consisting of 22,700 seats to accommodate the large number of attendees. The Lady-Cougars played their first game in the Marriott stadium on December 3, 1971. In the 1981-1982 season, the BYU Women’s basketball team beat Oregon State when it made it to the post-season, but then it lost to University of Hawaii in the second round. BYU went to the third round of the NCAA Tournament in 2002, and lost to University of Tennessee.^[1]

[edit] Notable Players

Tina Anne Gunn Robison
She came to BYU and began playing women’s basketball in 1976 and played for the cougars all four years of her college career. During her senior year, she earned the Kodak All-America First Team award and she was also named to the American Women's Sports Federation First Team and the National Scouting Association All-America Team. She graduated from BYU in 1980 with a degree in chemical engineering but still holds many records within the university, putting her among the best Women’s basketball players to have ever played for BYU^[2]. She still holds the records for:

Place	Record Name	Record
First	Total Career Points	2,759
First	Career scoring average	27.3
First	career rebounds	1,482
First	Career rebounds per game	14.7
First	Points in a single game	56 vrs UNLV in 1979
First	Season points	967, 1979-1980 (Also the national record that year)
First	Season scoring average	31.2, 1979-1980 (Also national record that year)^[3]

Tresa Spaulding Hamson
She came to BYU in 1983 hailing from Meridian Idaho and was nationally honored throughout her career as a BYU player. Her freshman year she earned First Team Women's Basketball Yearbook Freshman All-American honors and was also named Honorable Mention All-American by Street and Smith. As a sophomore she was named First Team All-HCAC, Kodak Division I All-District VII, and American Women's Sports Federation Fourth Team All-America. Her Junior year she was ranked third in the nation for points per game averaging 25.2 and seventh in field goal percentage (63.6)^[4] That same year she also earned HCAC Player of the Year honors and was named Kodak Division I All-District VII. Her Senior year however proved to be her best yet having the highest scoring average in the nation, averaging 28.93 and was also second in the nation in field goal percentage (65.2)^[5] Her senior year she earned her second straight HCAC Player of the Year award, claimed her third straight Kodak Division I District VII award, and was named AWSF First Team All-America with the designation "Best Center in America." She has earned two degrees from BYU, a bachelors in youth leadership and a masters degree in physical education^[6]. She still holds many records at BYU including^[7]:

Place	Record Name	Record
Second	Career points	2,309
Second	Career scoring average	23.4
Second	Career rebounds	980
First	field goal percentage (minimum 150 attempts)	.609
First	Career blocked shots	494
First	Points in a single game	50 vrs UNM 1987
Second	Points in a single game	50 vrs UNM 1987
First	Blocks in a single game	11 vrs Houston in 1986
Third	Season scoring average	29.8 1986-1987 (also led the nation that season)

[edit] Notable Games

[edit] Titles/Notable Games

The Lady Cougars won the Mountain West Conference title in 2002. Every year BYU has made it to the semifinals and advanced to the championship game except for the years 2004, 2005 and 2008. ^[8]

[edit] 2007-2008 Season

The BYU Women's basketball team had a winning record on their home court during the conference season; they won 9 games and lost 5.^[9] The team had a lot of talent and athletic girls but it still was a very emotional, very challenging year. Their overall record for the 2007-2008 seasons was 13-16 which gave BYU the No. 5 seed in the Mountain West Conference Tournament.^[10] Their play ended early though when they lost to No. 4 seed University of New Mexico. It wasn't the Cougars best season but they learned a lot and are expected to come back bigger and better next year.

Opponent	Place	Final
Westminster College	Provo, UT	WIN
Eastern Oregon	Provo, UT	WIN
UC Santa Barbara	Sanata, Barbara CA	WIN
Arkansas Stat	Joneboro, AK	LOSS
Fresno State	Provo UT	WIN
Harford	Provo, UT	LOSS
Seton Hall	Provo, UT	WIN
Univ. of Connecticut	Hartford, CT	LOSS
New Mexico State	Provo, UT	LOSS
Utah Valley State	Provo, UT	WIN
Weber State University	Ogden, UT	LOSS
UCLA	Provo, UT	WIN
Utah State University	Logan, UT	WIN
Colorado State	Ft. Collins, CO	WIN
UNLV	Provo, UT	WIN
Utah	Provo, UT	LOSS
San Diego State	San Diego, CA	LOSS
New Mexico	Albuquerque, NM	WIN
Air Force Academy	Provo, UT	WIN
Wyoming	Provo, UT	WIN
TCU	Ft. Worth, TX	LOSS
Colorado State	Provo, UT	WIN
UNLV	Las Vegas	LOSS
Utah	Salt Lake City, UT	LOSS
San Diego State	Provo, UT	WIN
New Mexico	Provo, UT	LOSS
Air Force Academy	Colorado Springs, CO	LOSS
Wyoming	Laramie, WY	LOSS
TCU	Provo, UT	LOSS
MWC Champs. Quarterfinal game vs. UNM	Las Vegas, NV	LOSS