Lady Zags vs Lady Cougars

[ZagDad84]

Here is the preview of Saturday's big game against BYU from the Cougar's perspective.

Gonzaga women come to Provo Saturday afternoon

PROVO, Utah — With a 62-52 home win over LMU, BYU women’s basketball (13-9, 8-3) remains in second place in the latest West Coast Conference standings. The Cougars are set to host league-leading Gonzaga (18-4, 11-0) this Saturday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. MST.

BYUtv will carry live the game between BYU and the Bulldogs. Fans can also follow the action on BYU Radio - Sirius XM 143 with both an audio and a video stream available on line.

GAME PROMOTIONS
It's National Girls & Women in Sports Day, beginning at 1 p.m. Student-athletes representing BYU's women's sports teams will be in attendance. Posters, booths, NGWSD swag, t-shirts and free pink mint brownies will be available for all attendees. The event is free and includes admittance to the women's game at 2 p.m.

ABOUT BYU
The Cougars are averaging 68.0 points and 38.4 boards a contest. BYU shoots 42.3 percent from the field, 33.3 percent from the 3-point line and 66.7 percent from the charity stripe.

Nationally, BYU ranks eighth in blocked shots and ninth in blocked shots per game. Senior guard Cassie Broadhead Devashrayee ranks second in free throw attempts, fourth in free throws made and eighth in minutes played. Freshman center Sara Hamson ranks second in blocked shots per game and third in blocked shots.

Two players scored in double digits in the home win over LMU for the eighth time on the year. In 16 games, BYU has tallied more blocks than its opponents and has dished out more assists in eight. The Cougars have also pulled down more rebounds in a total of 11 games.

In conference play, BYU has a 5-0 mark when playing at home. Last season, the Cougars went undefeated in league action.

ABOUT GONZAGA
Gonzaga comes to Provo with an 18-4, 11-0 record after a 63-44 road win at San Diego Thursday night.

The Bulldogs are atop the WCC standings.

Gonzaga is scoring 72.7 points per game and pulls down 40.3 rebounds a contest. The Bulldogs shoot 44.2 percent from the field, 25.7 percent from 3-point range and 70.6 percent from the free-throw line.

SERIES HISTORY
Gonzaga leads the overall series against BYU 12-9. When playing in Provo, the Bulldogs have a 3-5 record. Their last win at the Marriott Center was during the 2014-15 season when Gonzaga beat BYU 73-66 on Feb. 28.

Please note a different time for the game. It starts at 2:00 PM Mountain Time or 1:00 PM for those of us in the Pacific time zone.

If you don't want to watch the game on TheW.tv, BYU TV is also going to broadcast the game.

ZagDad

[ZagDad84]

A couple of interesting tidbits on Saturday's game.

- BYU is undefeated in conference play at home this year.
- The Lady Zags are surprisingly shooting a better overall percentage and scoring more points than BYU.
- Cassie Broadhead Devashrayee has her flopping down to a science as she is 2nd in the nation in FT attempts and 4th in FTs made.
- 6'7" Freshman center, Sara Hamson, is second in the nation in blocked shots per game and 3rd in blocked shots.
- As a team BYU ranks 8th nationally in blocked shots and 9th in blocked shots per game.

Looks like points in the paint maybe be a little more difficult this week. May need to pull young Ms. Hamson out of the key.

We have our targets. Let's go get some Puddy Tat.

Go Zags,

ZagDad

[TerpZag]

Bulldogs Take 13-Game Win Streak Into Provo

GU has held opponent under 50 points four times in last six games


Feb. 2, 2018

Gonzaga Notes


Gonzaga (18-4, 11-0 WCC) at BYU (13-9, 8-3 WCC)

Feb. 3, 2018 | 1 p.m. PT | BYUTV | 94.1 KJRB FM (Steve Myklebust)
Provo, Utah | Marriott Center (18,987) | BYUTV.org | Live Stats


INSIDE THE JCP:

- Gonzaga made it 13-straight wins and 11-0 in West Coast Conference action with another dominant second and third quarters at San Diego on Thursday night, winning 63-44.
- Jill Barta led all scorers with 13 points, and Chandler Smith added 12 points and led with seven boards. Laura Stockton scored nine and Jessie Loera had seven, with each of them grabbing three steals as Gonzaga had 11 as a team off 18 USD turnovers. GU shot 46 percent, holding USD to 31 percent.
- A true team effort for GU, 10 players scored and eight had rebounds. GU dominated points in the paint, 30-18.
- The Zags held a team below 50 points for the fifth time this season and fourth time in six games.

NOW IT GETS FUN:

- The Zags have started WCC play with a 11-0 record just four times prior in their history, most recently in 2014-15. In three of those cases the Zags went undefeated in conference play at 14-0, prior to BYU and Pacific joining the West Coast Conference.
- The Zags started 15-0 in head coach Lisa Fortier’s first season in 2014-15.

SERIES HISTORY:

- The Zags lead the back-and-forth all-time series 13-9.
- GU is 3-5 all-time at BYU. The Zags won the first game they played there in 1994, 75-67, as part of the Holiday Classic.
- Gonzaga last won there on February 28, 2015, 73-66. Elle Tinkle scored 20 points in that game and the Zags matched the most league wins in West Coast Conference history with the regular season finale victory with 16. Last season, BYU won 63-71, as BYU had a 15-0 fourth-quarter run and Zykera Rice scored 13 off the bench with six rebounds
- Gonzaga head coach Lisa Fortier is 4-3 against the Cougars winning both regular-season meetings in 2015, and the home games in 2016 and 2017. 17th-year BYU head coach Jeff Judkins is 7-12 against Gonzaga.
- GU’s last win against BYU was at home last season, as the Zags shot 68 percent from three, making 17 of their 25 attempts, school records in percentage and made threes. Those marks also set new highs inside the McCarthey Athletic Center, for either the Zag men or women. Emma Stach led the Zags going five-of-seven from deep for 17 points, a career high. She added seven rebounds, two assists, and two steals
- Gonzaga’s win streak of four from 2013-14 is the longest in the series, as BYU has never won more than two-straight games.
- Gonzaga leads 8-4 all-time in West Coast Conference regular-season meetings, which began when BYU joined the conference in 2011-12.

SCOUTING THE COUGARS:

- The Cougars started the WCC season 6-1, but have lost two of their last four. BYU completed a season sweep over Saint Mary’s.
- Nationally, the Cougar team ranks eighth in blocked shots per game at 6.4.
- Last year’s WCC Player of the Year Cassie Devashrayee averages 20.2 points per game to lead the Cougars and the West Coast Conference. She logs heavy minutes at 38.6 per game and played all 40 in Thursday’s 62-52 win over Loyola Marymount.
- Breanna Chase, 13.6 per game, and Malia Nawahine, 10 per game, join her in double figures.
- Six-foot-seven freshman Sara Hamson leads on the glass at 6.8 boards per game and has blocked 80 shots, second in the nation.
- BYU played three Pac-12 teams and one team from the SEC in its nonconference schedule, going 1-3 in those games.
- The Cougars shoot 68 percent from the field, but have a negative -1.4 rebounding margin and negative -.5 turnover margin. They do average four more blocks per game than their opponent.
- BYU has won 23-straight home WCC games, with Gonzaga’s 2015 win being their last loss to a WCC team in the Marriott Center.

BACK-LOADED SCHEDULE:

- The Zags have a back-loaded WCC schedule with five of their last eight games in conference coming against San Diego, BYU, and Saint Mary’s. The Zags have never played five games against those opponents in a single month.
- The Zags were 5-1 in those games last year, just dropping the game at BYU. They also went 5-1 in 2014-15, losing at San Diego, and 2012-13, losing at Saint Mary’s, the best marks since BYU joined the conference in 2011.
- In the remaining games, home and away against BYU, and at home against Saint Mary’s and USD, GU is 31-10 since 2011.

THE SECOND, AND THE THIRD:

- Gonzaga has outscored their opponent by 118 points in the second quarter this year, and 62 in the third quarter.
- The Bulldogs have an average lead of 12.14 points when entering the fourth quarter...

Gonzaga Article Link

[TerpZag]

Here is the preview of Saturday's big game against BYU from the Cougar's perspective.



Please note a different time for the game. It starts at 2:00 PM Mountain Time or 1:00 PM for those of us in the Pacific time zone.

If you don't want to watch the game on TheW.tv, BYU TV is also going to broadcast the game.

ZagDad

Apparently, TheW.tv will not be steaming online the Gonzaga - BYU game on Saturday. The game will be streamed online through the BYUTV.org though plus the tv broadcast on BYU TV.

[Kemo 1966]

CLF can OWN THE PAINT, simply by speeding the game up......you have 4 bigs who can run the floor.....guards who can facilitate the uptempo game.....their 7' ft'er will have her tongue hanging out by half! 3/4 trap defense ... and BYU won't know what hit them. They simply cannot keep up with your over-all speed and tough defense! Pacific made it look easy when BYU was in Stockton @ Spanos! Win number 12 for the taking....... go zag's!

[ZAGS ATTACK BASKET]

Like your train of thought Kemo. Getting their key players in foul trouble and harassing them on defense always works for me, and we have the depth to run them into the ground. Last game there top scorer Devashrayee played the whole game 40 minutes, and usually plays the nearly the whole game averages around 38 minutes. Wear them down. Get a lot of charging fouls hope Laura Stockton has been tutoring the Wirth sisters on this.

This a really good 3 point range shooting team Broadhead, Nawahine, Chase, and Johnson all shoot above 30%. Going to have to stay on them from 3 point range to win.

Get #20 Devashrayee out of the game or limit her points would also contribute to a win. She was the player of the year in WCC WBB. She gunning for it again this year averaging 20 points a game. We need this win we will very likely play then two more times.

[Section 116]

As noted on BYUTv Jill Barta has moved into ninth place on the GU career scoring record as she recorded point number 1413 to pass Katelan Redmon at 1412. Next up Jennifer Mountain's 1422. Here is the career scoring chart as published prior to the season:

POINTS
1. Heather Bowman 2,165 (2006-10)
2. Courtney Vandersloot 2,073 (2007-11)
3. Tammy Tibbles 2,011 (1984-88)
4. Jessica Malone 1,703 (1998-02)
5. Ivy Safranski 1,702 (1991-95)
6. Ashley Burke 1,631 (2002-05)
7. Kayla Standish 1,583 (2008-12)
8. Jennifer Mountain 1,422 (1987-91)
9. Katelan Redmon 1,412 (2009-12)
10. Amy Simpson 1,386 (1982-86)

[sittingon50]

Barta a monster in the 1st half.

[ZAGS ATTACK BASKET]

Zags up 38-26 at half time. JL screwed up big time 1st half fouled Devashrayee on 3 point shot and then fouled her again JL played horrible 1st half. ZR 0-5 made 2 free throws did not look good. LS made a couple of stupid turnovers but made a couple of nice plays also. ES made two 3 pointers early, wrestled giant on the floor for jump ball. ES looks good early then looked sloppy 2nd quarter stupid fouls on their best free throw shooter. We need to stop having fouls on Devashrayee.

Only Zag looking good 1st half Jill Barta 19 point 10 rebounds last count. Only termed full court press once and it worked. Not playing a lot of pressure on defense so far. We played very slow in 2nd quarter.

[ZagDad84]

Good first half.

Barta playing exceptional. A double-double at halftime.

Defense giving up some wide-open shots due to sagging in the key. BYU helping out by missing many of the wide open shots only shooting 31% overall and 22% from 3-pt. Don't expect that to continue, need to tighten-up the defense some in the second half.

Offensively, we need to get Rice, Smith and Loera going to reduce the load on Barta. Also need to reduce the number of turnovers in the 2nd half.

Let's finish this Zags.

ZagDad

[pony]

I guess I missed seeing ES make a second 3

[ZAGS ATTACK BASKET]

Ls making stupid turnover and shots trying to get BYU back in it. ES great 4th quarter way to go Emma. Both teams in fouls trouble.

[ZAGS ATTACK BASKET]

ZAGS choking 21 point lead down to 8 points not playing aggressive and BYU pressure successful. Lead went down from 21 to 8 points in fourth quarter in a 4 minute time frame. Zags decided to sit on their lead in 4th quarter hate that conservative approach. Its like prevent defense in football how many time have we not seen that cost teams the game.

[ZagDad84]

As always under CLF, we try to run the clock out and we quit running our offense.

Just play the game, quit trying to play safe. The prevent defense prevents teams from winning.

Oh, and start hitting your free throws.

ZagDad

[ZAGS ATTACK BASKET]

79-64 ZAGS hold off BY 1:08 left in game.