The BYU women secured the outright WCC championship Saturday with an 82-52 road win over Pacific, bringing the Cougars' conference record to 15-1 while improving their overall mark to 25-2.
BYU guard Shaylee Gonzales leads a fast break for the Cougars, in women's basketball action between the BYU Cougars and the Pepperdine Waves, at the Marriott Center in Provo, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Judkins scored his 450th win tonight.• The BYU women’s basketball team waited for this moment all season. The moment when the Cougars could officially say the West Coast Conference title belonged to them and only them.
“This is big for our program to be able to win this conference,” coach Jeff Judkins said via videoconference after the game. “Gonzaga has won it so many years. It’s good for us to be able to really do it.” “We’re favored to win the tournament,” Judkins said. “We’re going to go out there with a lot of confidence and know that we can do that.”
The men, meanwhile, beat Pepperdine 75-59 and unofficially gave them the No. 5 seed in the tournament. That means they’ll play Friday, March 4 to start their WCC Tournament run.