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BYU Women’s Basketball Finds Replacement For South Carolina Game
PROVO, Utah – The primary BYU ladies’s basketball non-conference schedule of the Amber Whiting period is out.
One sport, specifically, was noticeably absent from the schedule. That was the unique season-opener towards the defending nationwide champion South Carolina Gamecocks.
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— BYU Ladies’s Hoops (@byuwbb) September 15, 2022
On September 2, South Carolina coach Daybreak Staley introduced that the home-and-home sequence with BYU was canceled because of the alleged racial slurs hurled throughout a volleyball match towards a Duke participant. BYU has since accomplished its investigation, saying they discovered no corroborating proof into the allegation.
Staley remained dedicated to upholding the cancelation, regardless of BYU’s investigation. “I proceed to face by my place. After my private analysis, I decided for the well-being of my group. I remorse that my college, my athletics director Ray Tanner and others obtained drawn into the criticism of a selection that I made.”
BYU will open the 2022-23 season at Colorado State
That transfer by South Carolina left BYU to search out one other sport. BYU will now tip off the 2022-23 season at Colorado State in Moby Enviornment on November 8. It will likely be the primary common season sport of Amber Whiting’s head teaching tenure at BYU.
#BYU ladies’s basketball finds alternative for South Carolina sport.
The Amber Whiting period will start at Colorado State on November 8.#BYUWBB @kslsports
— Mitch Harper (@Mitch_Harper) September 15, 2022
Whiting replaces Jeff Judkins, who turned the winningest coach in BYU basketball historical past (males’s or ladies’s) throughout his 21 years as coach. BYU employed Whiting from Burley Excessive Faculty in Idaho, the place she gained a state championship final season.
Whiting inherits a BYU ladies’s basketball program that earned a six-seed within the NCAA Match and was a constant Prime 25 group a season in the past. However there will probably be lots of new faces main the best way for the Cougars after they misplaced star guards Paisley Harding to commencement and Shaylee Gonzales, who transferred to Texas.
BYU brings again All-American candidate ahead Lauren Gustin and rising sophomore Emma Calvert within the publish.
Different notable video games on the non-conference schedule embody a house sport towards the Oklahoma Sooners within the Marriott Middle on November 15. The Cougars may even play within the North Shore Showcase on the campus of BYU-Hawaii towards Washington State on November 18 and Troy on November 19.
BYU rounds out the non-conference schedule with a pair of in-state video games towards Utah State in Logan on December 6, then a house sport towards Utah on December 10. WCC play opens up December 17 towards Gonzaga in Spokane.
BYU Ladies’s Basketball 2022-23 Schedule
Oct. 27: Westminster (Exhibition)
Nov. 8: at Colorado State
Nov. 12: Montana State
Nov. 15: Oklahoma
Nov. 18: vs. Washington State (Lai’e, Hawaii)
Nov. 19: vs. Troy (Lai’e, Hawaii)
Nov. 23: Carroll Faculty
Nov. 26: Ball State
Dec. 1: at Boise State
Dec. 6: at Utah State
Dec. 10: Utah
Dec. 17: at Gonzaga
Dec. 19: at Portland
Dec. 29: Pacific
Dec. 31: Saint Mary’s
Jan. 7: San Diego
Jan. 12: at LMU
Jan. 14: at Pepperdine
Jan. 19: San Francisco
Jan. 21: Santa Clara
Jan. 26: at Saint Mary’s
Jan. 28: at Pacific
Feb. 4: at San Diego
Feb. 9: Pepperdine
Feb. 11: LMU
Feb. 16: at Santa Clara
Feb. 18: at San Francisco
Feb. 23: Portland
Feb. 25: Gonzaga
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and host of the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports activities Saturday (Saturday from 12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Comply with him on Twitter: @Mitch_Harper.