No. 24 BYU women’s volleyball swept West Virginia (25-19, 25-17, 25-18) in its last regular season contest at the Smith Fieldhouse in Provo on Saturday afternoon.

The Cougars (17-9, 10-6 Big 12) hit efficiently throughout the afternoon, recording a .367 clip, led by Kate Prior’s season-high .727 hitting percentage. BYU was paced in kills by Claire Little (hitting .625), who had 10, followed by Prior and Kjersti Strong, who both recorded eight.

Brielle Kemavor finished with seven kills, and Elli Mortensen tallied six. Alex Bower totaled 33 assists, and Lulu Uluave led the team with six digs. Kemavor carded a game-high seven total blocks and the Cougars out-blocked the Mountaineers, 10-2.

BYU will finish its season on a road trip to Kansas as it heads to Lawrence to face No. 11 Kansas on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 6:30 p.m. CST, with streaming on ESPN+.

Cougar women’s basketball loses in OT

Emma Calvert’s first double-double of the season wasn’t enough as BYU fell to Northern Colorado, 67-60 in overtime, for the Cougars’ first loss of the season on Saturday at the Marriott Center in Provo.

“We let our offense affect our defense,” said head coach Amber Whiting. “We didn’t shoot well tonight and didn’t come together when times got tough. When the shots weren’t falling, we still need to play defense and unfortunately, we didn’t do enough of that tonight.”

Calvert shot 6-of-12 from the field and 4-for-5 from the free throw line on her way to 18 points and 10 rebounds the overtime defeat.

Amari Whiting joined Calvert in double figures as she scored 14 points, going 7-of-10 from the charity stripe and 3-of-12 from the field. Whiting also chipped in six assists and four rebounds.

Freshman Delaney Gibb tied Whiting for a game-high six assists and Marya Hudgins recorded eight rebounds on the night.

BYU had its worst shooting performance of the young season as they went 35.5 percent from the floor and 12.5 percent from three.

The Cougars kept themselves in the game by outrebounding Northern Colorado 40-36 and turning over the Bears 19 times. However, BYU also coughed it up 18 times leading to 14 UNC points. The Cougars also committed 26 fouls leading to 20 Northern Colorado points from the foul line.

BYU had a five-point lead late in the fourth quarter, but the Bears scored three points to pull within two with 1:47 remaining. A BYU turnover and missed floater gave the Bears the ball with 31 seconds left. Northern Colorado made a corner shot from beyond the arc and took a one-point lead with 23.6 seconds left to play. The Cougars called timeout.

The Cougars missed the mark on a jumper and fouled the Bears. Northern Colorado missed both free throws and BYU called timeout trailing by one point with 9.5 seconds left.

Whiting drove the lane, was fouled and made 1-of-2 free throws. The Bears missed on a last-second heave at the basket and the teams headed to overtime knotted at 56 points.

UNC made another 3-pointer to get the lead in the extra frame, then put the game away at the free-throw line as the Cougars missed their last five shots.

BYU will next face the Rice Owls on Nov. 28 in the first of two games at the Cancún Challenge. Watch the Cougars and Owls at 7 p.m. MT on FloCollege or listen on BYU Radio.

Mackenzie Miller Lung breaks BYU women’s swimming record

Mackenzie Miller Lung clocked 2:09.61 to break BYU women’s swimming’s 200 breast school record on Friday as the Cougars concluded competition at the Texas Invitational in Dallas.

Miller Lung’s record-breaking performance came as she finished runner-up in the preliminary race behind only Lucy Bell of No. 4 Stanford, the nation’s fastest 200 breast swimmer.

A junior from Clovis, California, Miller Lung topped Katie McBratney’s previous school record of 2:11.44 set in 2021. Following Friday’s swim, Miller Lung jumps into the top-15 nationally in the 200 breast, overtaking swimmers from Southern Illinois, No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 1 Virginia.

Freshmen Jasmine Anderson and Lucy Warnick kept the successes coming for the Cougars in the 200 breast.

Anderson swam a personal-best 2:13.42 to take eighth in the prelim and finish the day fifth all-time at BYU. Warnick took 17th at 2:15.53 in the prelim, then cut over two seconds for 2:13.36 and the program’s fourth-fastest time in the final.

BYU women’s swimmers have swam sub-2:14.00 in the 200 breast just five times since 1991. Three of those performances occurred on Friday with Miller Lung, Anderson and Warnick.

In total, the Cougars combined for 34 season-best times on Friday, 20 of which went down as collegiate-best as well.

BYU women’s diving concluded the SMU Invite with platform competition on Saturday. Alexia Jackson Hansen finished runner-up with a score of 233.65. Jackson Hansen remains ranked in the top-25 nationally in platform scoring.

Sophia DeBergh (11th), Brooklyn Larson Clouse (16th) and Kate Eriksen (22nd) rounded out the Cougars’ platform results on Saturday.