PROVO \u2014 Five games into conference play after missing eight games due to injury, Delaney Gibb is definitely back.<\/p>\n
She proved it Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Gibb followed up her season-high 21-point effort at Arizona<\/a> with 19 points, four assists and three steals as BYU led nearly wire-to-wire en route to a 79-64 win over Houston that helped the visiting Cougars split a two-game road trip at the Fertitta Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n Oliva Hamlin added 14 points, three assists and two steals for the Cougars (14-3, 3-2 Big 12), who got 13 points, seven rebounds and three blocks from freshman Bolanle Yussuf.<\/p>\n Brinley Cannon had 11 points and five rebounds, Marya Hudgins supplied 10 points, four rebounds and three assists, and Lara Rohkohl pulled down nine rebounds with 7 points as BYU won for the seventh time in the last nine games.<\/p>\n “I thought that Livvy came in and gave us a really big lift in the second half, playing free and playing on attack,” BYU coach Lee Cummard told ESPN+ of Hamlin, the freshman from Santa Clara who connected on a career-high four 3-pointers. “It was good to see.”<\/p>\n Through 17 games of Cummard’s first season as head coach, BYU has yet to lose back-to-back games<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kiera Merchant had 18 points, five rebounds and four steals for Houston (6-10, 0-5 Big 12).<\/p>\n Yussuf shot 4-for-4 for 8 points in the first quarter, despite playing just three minutes due to foul trouble, as the Cougars ended the frame on a 7-0 run to take a 28-16 lead.<\/p>\n Houston had just six players available after three of its players were ejected for fighting and another for leaving the bench during a 71-62 loss to Kansas State that dropped Houston to 0-4 in Big 12 play.<\/p>\n