2026 PHILLIPS 66 BIG 12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

March 5, 2026

Lee Cummard

Delaney Gibb

Lara Rohkohl

T-Mobile Center

BYU Cougars

Postgame Press Conference

BYU 70, Utah 52

THE MODERATOR: We are joined by BYU Head Coach Lee Cummard and student-athletes Delaney Gibb and Lara Rohkohl. Coach will start us off with a comment on the game.

LEE CUMMARD: Yeah, I thought we started pretty good. We were engaged on both sides of the ball, and then kind of slipped towards the tail end of the first quarter and the second quarter where we just got a little stagnant on both sides. We weren't really the first to anything, loose balls, tips. It was tangibly different in the second half.

I'm really grateful for this group and how connected they are. They want to do it for each other and for the name on the front of their jersey. I hate that it comes at Coach Petersen's expense to advance, because he does such a great job. He's got a great team, but glad that we were on the winning side of today's battle.

THE MODERATOR: Questions.

Q. 43-16 run. Second half. What was the message at halftime?

LEE CUMMARD: I don't remember, honestly, specifically. What I challenged them to do is kind of do what we do. We had some kind of made couple of decisions in the first half, whether it was kind of a flyer shot from Barber or Brinley, and I called them out on that and said, hey, wait for a good one, right? Just thought a few of us were a little slow, and we addressed it. The overall message was do what we do. Okay? Our good is good enough.

I thought in the second half we just stayed right in that framework and got a huge -- I don't want this press conference to go on without letting Ari Mackey-Williams know that she was very instrumental in our run in the second half.

She came in and gave us some poise and some composure, and she's been at this level for a long time and hit a big three on a baseline out of bounds. It's a baseline out of bounds we haven't run once the entire year. We didn't execute it perfectly, but it was good enough.

Just overall in the second half we were who we are. These two right here made some great plays together. Coach, one of the assistants on staff, suggested an adjustment offensively because of the way that they were guarding Delaney Gibb, and we got probably five or six baskets from just switching it from her having the ball in her hands to getting it on a handoff.

It was just a great second half for us.

Q. Delaney, you mentioned we are who we are. We are who we are. You have won five games in a row. Who is BYU during this stretch versus maybe BYU that we saw in November/December?

DELANEY GIBB: Yeah, I feel like kind of all of the pieces to the puzzle are just coming together right now for us. We've talked all season about being a team that plays together and plays for each other, and I think that that's just been shown so well throughout these past five games.

I think that, you know, we've been moving the ball so well. We've been getting great opportunities for each other, and then on defense we've been just working hard, executing the game plan, and just being super focused and being tough. I think that's why we've been successful so far these past five games, and it's fun basketball to play.

We work super hard on defense, and I think that that transitions into easy offensive points.

Q. Delaney, you are obviously still very young in your career, but coming in here and being on this stage, your progression from last year to this year, the leadership role and the poise that you're bringing out there on the court on this stage, can you just kind of talk about your growth over the last 365 days since your last time at this point?

DELANEY GIBB: Yeah, I feel like in the offseason obviously I knew that I was going to have a different role. I went from a freshman to a sophomore on a team that's pretty young, so I wanted to just kind of be more of a leader than I was.

I'm not a super vocal person naturally, but that's something that lots of coaches have kind of tried to get out of me, but honestly, my teammates have helped so much. They've just helped me with confidence, instilled confidence in me, as well as the coaches. So I feel like it's been a pretty natural transition just because of how my teammates and coaches have helped me.

Q. Lee, yesterday it was Sydney's three-pointer. Today was it Olivia's three-pointer that banked in that gave you the final stop? Where was that moment for you?

LEE CUMMARD: I think Delaney had one and Liv had one too that were in shot-clock situations. Just glad they went in today.

Q. This is for you, Lara. You guys are 13-0 when you score in double figures. You finished with 12 points today. Almost a double-double. What did you feel like was working for you out on the court?

LARA ROHKOHL: I felt like I started a little slow. I was good on defense, but I never got going on offense in the first half of the game. I feel like we just played together as a team and if we move the ball and I get the ball down there, that's how I score.

I feel like just us as I team coming together and actually playing as a team, like, got me going. Then, also, me getting fouled or trying to do stuff and then, yeah, getting some free-throws.