BYU Womens Basketball Team

The [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) Cougars Women's basketball program was established in 1971. Jeff Judkins is the current coach and has been since XXXX. The cougars play in the [[BYU]] [[Marriott Center]] and are part of the [[Mountain West Conference]] in [[NCAA]] Division I.

== History ==

[[Brigham Young University]]’s (BYU) Women’s Basketball team began in the [[1972]]-[[1973]] season of basketball. 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]].

==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 BYUhttp://www.cougarclub.com/hall_of_fame/robison_t.jsp. She still holds the records for:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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)http://www.cougarclub.com/hall_of_fame/robison_t.jsp
|}



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-America honors and was also named Honorable Mention All-America 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) 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) 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 educationhttp://www.cougarclub.com/hall_of_fame/hamson_t.jsp
. She still holds many records at BYU includinghttp://www.byucougars.com/basketball_w/history/records.jsp:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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)
|}


==Notable Games==
==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.http://www.byucougars.com/uploads/stats/basketball_w/stats.pdf This team had a lot of talent and athletic girls but it still was a very emotion, 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.http://www.byucougars.com/basketball_w/ 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.

==See Also==

*[http://www.byucougars.com/basketball_w/ Women's Basketball Homepage]

*[http://themwc.cstv.com/ Mountain West Conference Homepage]

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