Delaney Gibb consistently made her mark on BYU women’s basketball during the regular season.
Postseason play is proving no different.
In the second round of the WBIT tournament against No. 4 seed Missouri, the BYU sophomore officially took her place as the 34th member of BYU women’s basketball's 1,000-point club.
Gibb reached the milestone in just 57 games, making her the third-fastest Cougar to ever do it.
“Honestly, I didn’t want to really think about it,” Gibb said. “Today was such an overall success as a team … we really shared the ball and played so well together. It’s fun to be able to achieve that in my career on a night where it felt like we were connected.”
Gibb entered the game needing 22 points to reach the milestone. When the final whistle blew, her stat line read 29.
Twenty-one of those points came from her scorching performance from beyond the arc. She knocked down a new career high of seven 3-pointers by the end of the night.
“I don’t know if she knew she was close to 1,000 points, but she definitely was ready to score some baskets tonight. And it was a confident approach,” BYU coach Lee Cummard said.
Praise for Gibbs’ performance didn’t stop with the Cougars.
“She’s so active,” Missouri head coach Kellie Harper said. “She’s hard to double-team because she can pass the ball. She does a really good job of reading screens. She’s explosive when she puts the ball on the floor, and she knocks down shots.”
Gibb wasn’t the only Cougar filling the stat sheet with impressive numbers. Three of her teammates were in double figures for points, one of them being freshman Olivia Hamlin, who tied her career-high of 23.
“Offense was the key to the game,” Gibb said. “Shoutout to everyone who’s nailing threes and getting easy buckets. That’s what opened up the game.”
In the end, the Missouri Tigers had no answer for Gibb and BYU’s dominant offensive presence, falling 93-75.
“This group is not ready to be done playing,” Cummard said when asked about the road forward in the tournament. “It’s fun to have them be rewarded for their work.”
Gibb and the Cougars look to host No. 2 Stanford in the WBIT quarterfinals on Thursday.