- BYU women's basketball lost 81-60 to Kansas at Phog Allen Fieldhouse.
- Jaliya Davis scored 28 points leading Kansas to a 5-0 record over BYU.
- BYU's Delaney Gibb was limited to 10 points on 1-of-10 shooting.
PROVO — BYU women's basketball has traditionally run into a wall at historic Phog Allen Fieldhouse, where Kansas holds a 4-0 record all-time against the Cougars.
On Wednesday night, that wall was named Jaliya Davis.
The 6-foot-2 freshman from Overland Park, Kansas, poured in 28 points and 12 rebounds as the Jayhawks improved to 5-0 all-time against the Cougars with an 81-60 win in Lawrence, Kansas.
S'Mya Nichols shrugged off a first-half ankle injury to finish with 17 points, five rebounds and four assists for Kansas (14-10, 4-8 Big 12).
"I wasn't playing as well as I wanted to in the first half," Davis told ESPN+ after her first career double-double. "So I just came out in the second half and tried to do what I wanted to do."
Brinley Cannon led BYU (16-7, 5-6 Big 12) for the second consecutive game, scoring 13 points with four rebounds and a block. Sydney Benally added 11 points and two assists, and Bolanle Yussuf had 10 points, three rebounds, two assists and a block for the Cougars.
But the Jayhawks limited BYU star Delaney Gibb to 10 points on just 1-of-10 shooting, and out-rebounded the visitors 49-31 with 42 points in the paint to snap a two-game losing skid.
Gibb and fellow double-digit scorer Olivia Hamlin combined to shoot just 2-of-10 from the field and 0-for-7 from beyond the arc, for 14 points.
"You're not going to win on the road giving up 49 in the second half," BYU coach Lee Cummard told BYU Radio after the game. "It's just what it is. We got a little selfish offensively, and it carried over defensively where we weren't very connected. We've got to fix that."
Benally scored 8 and Marya Hudgins added 7 points as Kansas held Gibb to 4 points and three rebounds in the first half en route to a 32-32 stalemate through 20 minutes.
But the Jayhawks opened the second half on a 13-1 run, holding the visitors without a field goal on seven consecutive attempts until Brinley Cannon hit a 3-pointer with 4:34 left in the third quarter.
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The Cougars canned three triples in the third quarter, but shot 3-of-15 from the field and 0-for-6 from inside the arc before Lilly Meister beat the buzzer with a tip-in to give Kansas a 57-45 lead after three quarters.
"We didn't execute as well as we wanted to in the first half," Davis said, "so just coming out in the second half and punching them in the mouth was a big one for us."
Davis stretched the lead to 18 after finishing off Nichols' feed into the paint to go up 66-48 with 6:23 remaining. Cannon pulled up for her third triple less than three minutes later to pull the Cougars back within 68-57.
But Kansas ended the game on an 11-1 run, and the visitors shot just 7-of-34 in the second half and could get no closer.
BYU continues its two-game Sunflower State road trip Saturday at Kansas State (3 p.m. MST, ESPN+).
