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Speaker 2: How you living doing pretty good?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 3: How about you doing good? Man? Appreciate you hopping on
to talk to Cougar women's basketball. They got a dub.
They beat up on them Stamford Cardinals. I love that always.
Delanny Gibb and Brindley Cannon combined for forty two points
and they pulled away from Stamford seventy six sixty one
Thursday night at the Mary Center to punch their ticket
to the WBIT Final four. In that game that stayed
tight through three quarters, the Cougar slipped the script in
the fourth, erupting for twenty six points to turn a
one point lead into a double digit win. Tell me
a little bit about this women's team. Do you feel
like they were seeing everything that they've done in the
wbad Do you feel like they were slided today? Deserve
an NC doublea tournament big dance bid.
Speaker 2: You look at the team, especially they've played as of late.
You know, in the tournament you want to have the
best not only just the best teams, but the best
teams as of late, you don't want to take a
team that's lost, you know, seven of their last eight
games into the tournament, with the one exception maybe being
how well Texas has played. And the men's side this year,
they'd lost seven of eight going into March Madness and
they nearly ad made it to the Elite eight last night.
But with b YU women's basketball, they're they're playing their
best basketball that they've been playing all year right now.
One of their best wins of the year last night
against Stanford, and talking with coach Kamard, he's talked about
how you know, these girls aren't ready to be done yet.
You know they want to keep playing, They want to
keep going. They've got real chemistry between them and it's
producing some big wins.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Leek Kamar doing something that no other coach has done,
winning this many games as a first year coach. Now,
he's been around the program for a long time, he's
been around BU basketball for a long time, but the
victory over Stanford makes him the winning his first year
coaching program history, surpassing Jeff judkins twenty four win mark
during the two thousand and two two thousand and three season.
What does that mean for Lee Kamar's future at BYU.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Lee Kamar. You know, he was one
of the last hires if I'm not mistaken that Tom
Holmo may before he retired. But I think that's been
one of the most influential hires that BYU has had
in recent years. You know, you pair it with Kevin
Young probably in the impact that he's had on the
men's side, what Lee Kamart has done for the women's side,
especially bringing somebody up. I remember when they were in
the search for a new head coach. I was really
hoping that it was gonna be Lee Kamar. And I've
got a cousin that played basketball at Gonzaga and she,
you know, played against BYU. Always loved watching her play there,
but her her mom my aunt follows the team closely,
and she was really hoping for Lee Kamar, just the
relationship he has with the players. I had a class
with one of the players on the team a couple
semester years ago, and she was talking about how big
of a role we played. This was when he was
still in his role as the associate head coach, the
assistant for the team, but he's the main recruiter. He
was the one that got Dwayne Gibb. He was the
one that got you know, my friend in that class
to come to BYU. And so what we've done with
this program is he's completely turned it around. You've gotten
from a team that barely even won ten games last
year to now a team that's won twenty five on
their way to the semi finals of the WBIT and
having a chance to take some revenge and take it
out on Kansas.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited for this squad. I love what they've
become this season. You know, they they weren't able to
get over the hump though, right We've talked about Quad one,
Quad two opportunities. Obviously the quad twos were very heavy,
they were amazing. Those Quad one opportunities not as good,
But the way that they're playing right now, I feel
like they could compete with many of those Quad one
teams that made into the NCAA. They're playing like an
NCAA tournament team right now. They're gonna get a true
test with in Whichita Kaanns is to face the number
two seed Kansas Jayhawks in this wb I t Final
four on Monday afternoon. Uh and I don't know if
the tip off time has been announced yet, but do
you think they they make it to the championship game?
Is this a championship team?
Speaker 2: So tip time three o'clock on Monday, so right at
Smack Middle today, right during our show. But they got
They've got the girls to do it. Watching delay give
play these last couple of games, she's obviously leads the
w VI in scoring. She's scored twenty plus points in
each of these games so far, and you know, twenty
nine on Monday twenty seven last night. She's carried this
team and she just plays a different game in basketball
than the rest of them. Her her vision. She's not
only scoring, but she's dishing out assists, she's grabbing rebounds.
I had seven rebounds last night. Back to back games
with over seven boards, a couple near triple double performances
for Delaney. And she's really the heart and soul of
this team. If she's going, the rest of the team
is going to be able to rally around her to score.
But really it's been aside from Delaney, you've seen a
lot coming from just some of the role players for BYU.
That first game against Alabama A and M. You saw
Sidney Bonalli score eighteen. Last time out, it was Cambrian
Barber who had a double double against Missouri, and then
this most recent game, it was Britany Cannon who scored
fifteen points, including a crucial three to start BYU on
the run that led them to eventually, you know, taking
the lead. But they've just they've got all the right pieces.
I loved the big play from Lada Rocal and Bully
Usuff when one of them scores at least ten points.
BYU is now seventeen and oh on the year, and
so everything's gelling, everything's working, and if they're playing as
they have of late, I think there's no doubt that
they can make it to the.
Speaker 3: Finals as far as ten years concerned. Like, let's project
for a moment, how much of this team returns next season.
Speaker 2: So you look at three seniors on the team, so
a lot of Rocal and then two just bench players
who don't get in a whole lot kind of more
of a glue guy type role, kind of a Jared
McGregor where the whole team loves them, rallies around him,
but they don't get as much playing time. And Heather
Hampson and Pattie Ogden, But really you look at the team,
so Olivia Hamlin, Sidney Manali, both freshmen, Bully Yusuf, freshman,
Breton Gunlock, who's kind of been the ninth rotation player
coming off the bench. You don't see her a lot,
but she can get in enough where she's a crucial
part of the team. Those are the four freshmen, they're
all going to be coming back. And then you've got
the sophomores. You've got Delaney GiB Brinley Cannon, Cambry Barber,
and just watching them play, just got such a young
cord that here in the next couple of years, especially
with the pieces that they're able to bring in Kaylie
Wilson coming off a mission. She was the best three
point shooter in the entire nation before she left to
her mission in Baltimore. But they got all the right
pieces not only to be successful this year and make
the WBIIT Finals like we were just talking about, but
to be successful in years to come. This is going
to be a really, really good basketball team, not only
next year, but two years from now, when Delaney, Cambriy,
and Brinley Cannon are seniors. They're going to be a
team to watch out for.
Speaker 4: Cam.
Speaker 3: I got Ronald of the three man weaver by my shot.
He's got a few questions for you as well.
Speaker 4: What was it like from your vandas point, Cam, the
game was tight going into the fourth court. I think
it was fifty three to fifty two, and then Delaney
hit back to back three He's got a time out
and Bau just opened it up up until that point.
I mean it was even an inn. They outscored him
in the fourth to put it away twenty six to
twelve if I'm correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lee Kamar, when we were talking with him before
the game, just you know, talking about the Missouri game,
you said, you know, it was so much fun, just
have the crowd, the energy there, and I think in
that fourth quarter you saw a similar amount of energy
and a similar amount of just joy come out of
the team. You know, the rock was rocket with a
J and rob and you know, the almost the entire
men's basketball team came out and supported the women's team.
And then you saw just another thing that Lee said.
He said that Delaney makes one play a game where
he just sits there and smiles. And right after the
second of the back to back threes. He just immediately
stuck three three fingers in the air, smiling big and
time around ended up being called by Kate pay on Stanford.
But this team's just playing fun, and like you said,
it was kind of they were kind of playing tight
up until that moment, and then as soon as Delaney
hit two three, you knew it was over. They were
having fun, they were rolling and they didn't look back.
Speaker 4: What challenge does Obviously, Kansas now presented this team earlier
matchup in the season a big twelve fold they know them.
But when they were planning those different time of the
season as Bau's one what nine of their last ten now.
Speaker 2: Yep, so Kansas, they ended up losing that one. You know,
BYU ended up losing that one at Kansas by twenty one.
That's been the only game this year where they've had
four players and double figures that they have lost the game.
So Kansas, you know their defense, they can allow you
to score. But Kansas put up eighty one on BYU,
which is something that you don't see a lot of
Not many teams have been able to put up that
much on the Cougars. Only Vanderbilt and West Virginia have
put up more and so Kansas is a high powered offense.
They've got a great freshman, Jalen I believe her name
is jay excuse me, Jalia Davis. She's the freshman of
the year. Yeah, in the Big twelve unanimous. She won
Freshman the Year like nine times in a row. It's
like Freshman of the Week nine times in a row
to end the year. So yeah, it's Delaney, but Davis
is She's six two, averaging almost twenty a game, averaging
six and a half rebounds. She's going to be the
biggest challenge. You'll probably see either Cambry Barber, Britany Cannon,
or a lot of rocal get stuck on her. But
I would love to see a matchup with Cambriy Barber,
one of the careers Dust defensive players. Since she's been
inserted in the starting lineup, Cougar are seven and one
since then, so you'll see a different starting lineup coming
against this Jayhawks team. It's just unfortunate for the Cougars
that the semis and the finals happen to be in Wichitak, Kansas,
only a three hour drive from Lawrence.
Speaker 3: I know I'm in that forecasting mood. We've been talking
BWAU men's basketball and what they need in the portal
in order for this team to be a NCAA tournament
team next year. Right, and you know how many gets
how many of these ladies are going to be leaving.
What do they need to go out and find in
the portal in order to make this team a more
you know, more talented, more well rounded to be able
to make a run in the NCAA tournament next year.
Speaker 2: So I think at the guard position, they're said they
they don't need, you know, many more guards, but what
they need is the bigs. Losing Heather Hampson, who would
occasionally come in at the end of games, is kind
of third big, and then you'll lose a lot of
rocal your starting center. Those are going to be two
pieces that you know you're gonna want back, especially a Lota.
But bullet usuff freshman this year, six', four six,' three
maybe the very beginning of, the year it was rough to.
Watch her we told, us that, you know you couldn't
go an hour seeing her in practice without her committing,
a foul and so she. Was raw but she's improved
tremendously throughout the year and so she's gonna be really
fun to watch to see if she can squeak her
away into that. Starting Job but i'd love to see
them go out in, the portal get some big see
what centers, are available because that's where really what this
team was able to grab this last year a lot
of rocal it worked out well, for them so that
probably just gonna rinse and repeat for the.
Speaker 3: Same Year Cam Clark College basketball women's college BASKETBALL b
yu inside or here On YOUR Utah Espn. Radio network,
cam hopefully HOPEFULLY b a you continues to survive in
advance and they get to that championship game with an
opportunity to really have a CRESCENDO a a an awesome,
you know climax to. This season can't wait to see
what they. Can do thanks for hopping on to give
us a little update on the women's, basketball team.
Speaker 2: Of course look forward. To it thanks for. The opportunity always.
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