“It was a tremendous environment, tremendous college basketball game, tremendous grit and resilience from our group tonight,” head coach Lee Cummard  said. “They’re well coached. They got a great group, and we’re fortunate to come out on top today, but we had some girls really make some crucial plays in the game at key moments. Then we had a couple of girls who just rebounded like crazy today. That ultimately was the difference.”

Lara Rohkohl  recorded a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, as BYU improved to 10-0 this season when she scores in double figures. Olivia Hamlin  added 16 points while knocking down three 3-pointers on six attempts, and Gibb continued her scoring stretch with her third straight 20-plus point performance, going 13-of-14 from the free-throw line to help the Cougars withstand a late Sun Devil push.

After trailing at halftime, BYU flipped the momentum in the third quarter, outscoring ASU 28-11, and carried that energy into a strong fourth-quarter stretch. BYU forced nine turnovers and held the Sun Devils to 28.1 percent shooting en route to a 48-30 second-half comeback. The Cougars leaned on timely stops and poise at the free-throw line late to secure the road win.

BYU returns to the Marriott Center for a senior-day matchup on Saturday, Feb. 28, against the Colorado Buffaloes at 2 p.m. MT in Provo. The game will be streamed on ESPN+, with live stats available online and the radio call on BYU Radio.

No. 3 Hawaii ends No. 6 BYU’s nine-match win streak

HONOLULU, Hawai’i — No. 6 BYU men’s volleyball fell 3-1 (27-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-18) to No. 3 Hawai’i in the first of two top-10 NCAA men’s volleyball matches between these two teams in Hawai’i this week.

Both teams came into the match on nine-match winning streaks, with UH now stretching its to 10 matches. BYU will look to start a new streak in Friday’s rematch.

Outside hitter Trent Moser led the Cougars in the match with a season-high 18 kills and hit .387. He also added four aces, four digs and two blocks.

BYU setter Tyler Herget continued to boost his assists-per-set average with 47 assists in the match, helping the Cougars hit .386.

Trevor Herget and Connor Oldani also racked up double-digit kills for BYU with 12 each in the match.

Hawaii had three players in double figure kills with Kainoa Wade (16, .355), Louis Sakanoko (15, .433) and Adrien Roure (14, .500). Both offenses were effective, with BYU hitting .386 and Hawaii .460.

Both teams had eight aces but the Warriors posted seven blocks (to the Cougars’ four), 33 digs (to the Cougars’ 29) and sided out at a higher percentage (68.6% to 58.6%).

Baseball drops game at Long Beach State

LONG BEACH, California  — A six-run, fourth inning propelled Long Beach State to a 10-7 win over BYU in the first of four games for the Cougars at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field.

Long Beach (3-5) scored 10 runs on 10 hits while stranding 16 runners. Meanwhile BYU (4-4) scored seven runs on eight hits, leaving nine runners on base.

Ezra McNaughton was 3 for 4 with 2 RBI, a home run and two runs scored and Matt Hansen, who was 2 for 3, also drove in a pair of runs for the Cougars.

Long Beach exploded for six runs in the bottom half of the fourth inning off three walks, a hit batter, five hits and another Cougar error to take a commanding 9-3 lead.

Both teams tacked on a run in the fifth inning to push the score to 10-4. With one out, McNaughton homered deep over the right field wall for his third home run of the young season.

After two-scoreless innings, the Cougars cut the Dirtbags’ lead to 10-7 in the top of the eighth inning. Hansen doubled to lead off the inning and advanced to second when Goff was hit by a pitch. A groundball by Keoni Painter, combined with a throwing error by Long Beach, scored Hansen. A double by Anderson to left scored Painter and a single to center scored McNaughton, to end the Cougar scoring for the night. BYU will play two neutral-site games with Washington State on Thursday and Friday at Blair Field in Long Beach, with both games scheduled for 2:05 p.m. MT. Then BYU and Long Beach will finish the four-game weekend on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 2:05 p.m. MT.