The 2012–13 BYU Cougars women's basketball team represented Brigham Young University in the 2012–13 college basketball season. It was head coach Jeff Judkins twelfth season at BYU. The Cougars, members of the West Coast Conference, played their home games at the Marriott Center. They finished the season 23–11, 11–5 in conference play, to finish tied for 3rd in the conference. The Cougars advanced to the second round of the 2013 Women's National Invitation Tournament, where they lost to conference foe Saint Mary's. In an unusual event, the leader at Halftime of all 3 BYU/ Saint Mary's meetings would go on to lose the match.
Before the season
Departures Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Notes Alexis Kafusi 10 F Provo, Utah Cut from team by Coach Judkins Dani Peterson 32 F Salt Lake City, Utah Graduated Kristen Riley 35 F San Clemente, California Graduated
Redshirt News The Cougars were bolstered by the news that Haley Steed would be granted a sixth year of eligibility after she missed out on two previous seasons from injuries. Steed missed out on her 2009-2010 season after playing only the season opening game against Portland State and then was given a medical redshirt during the 2010-11 season.
2012-13 media
BYU Radio Sports Network Affiliates
Many Lady Cougar games were broadcast live on BYU Radio found nationwide on Dish Network 980, on Sirius XM 143, and online at www.byuradio.org. Ty Brandenburg acted as the voice of the Lady Cougars for games not shown on BYUtv. 16 BYU games weren't available on BYU Radio, but of those 16 games 12 were broadcast on BYUtv. 2 of the remaining 3 games were streamed online live by the home team, and the Pepperdine game was available through Pepperdine's road broadcast. Only the Washington State game had no TV or audio broadcast available.
Roster
Schedule and results
!colspan=12 style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#002654;"| Exhibition
!colspan=12 style="background:#002654; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-conference Regular Season
!colspan=12 style="background:#002654; color:#FFFFFF;"| WCC Regular Season
!colspan=12 style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#002654;"| 2013 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament
!colspan=12 style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#002654;"|2013 Women's National Invitation Tournament
Game summaries
Chadron State Series History: First Meeting Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Kory Aldous
Dixie State Series History: BYU leads regular season series 1-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Shaun Gordon
Weber State Series History: BYU leads series 39-9 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Blake Tillitson
At Dartmouth Series History: First meeting Broadcasters: Brett Franklin (Big Green Insider)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
At Boston College Series History: First Meeting Broadcasters: Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
At Harvard Series History: BYU leads series 1-0 Broadcasters: Greg Kadetsky and Helen Williams (Harvard on Stretch)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
At Arizona Series History: BYU leads series 6-5 Broadcasters: Derrick Palmer and Lisa Salgado- Arizona on Pac-12 Digital/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
At Washington State Series History: BYU leads series 4-3
Creighton Series History: Creighton leads series 6-5 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Kory Aldous
Utah State Series History: BYU leads series 30-3 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Blake Tillitson
At Utah Series History: Utah leads the series 61-39 Broadcaster: Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
During the Utah State game BYU's leading scorer, Lexi Eaton, went down with an injury and was unable to return during the game. X-Rays were done a couple of days later, and Eaton was diagnosed with an ACL tear, ending Eaton's season. The good news for the Cougars is Jennifer Hamson returned to the BYU women's basketball team during the Utah game after the volleyball team's season ended with a Sweet Sixteen loss.
Tulsa Series History: BYU leads series 6-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough and Kristen Kozlowski
UC Santa Barbara Series History: UCSB leads series 4-3 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough and Kristen Kozlowski
Seattle Series History: BYU leads series 1-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough and Kristen Kozlowski
Western New Mexico Series History: BYU leads series 1-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Shaun Gordon
San Francisco Series History: BYU leads series 7-1 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Shaun Gordon
At San Diego Series History: BYU leads series 4-0 Broadcaster: Paula Bott (USD on Stretch)
Pepperdine Series History: BYU leads series 3-2 Broadcaster: Nick Law (Pepperdine on Stretch)
At Gonzaga Series History: BYU leads series 5-4 Broadcasters: Sam Adams and Stephanie Hawk Freeman (SWX)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
Loyola Marymount Series History: BYU leads series 4-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Skyler Hardman
At San Francisco Series History: BYU leads series 8-1 Broadcasters: George Devine (USF on Stretch)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
Saint Mary's Series History: Series even 1-1 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Skyler Hardman
At Santa Clara Series History: BYU leads series 4-1 Broadcasters: John Nash (Santa Clara on Stretch)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
San Diego Series History: BYU leads series 5-0 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Skyler Hardman
At Saint Mary's Series History: BYU leads series 2-1 Broadcasters: Elias Feldman (Gaels Insider)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
Santa Clara Series History: BYU leads series 5-1 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Jake Edmonds
At Pepperdine Series History: BYU leads series 4-2 Broadcasters: Nick Law (TV-32)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
Portland Series History: BYU leads series 10-4 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Jen Benson
Gonzaga Series History: Series even 5-5 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Skyler Hardman
At Loyola Marymount Series History: BYU leads series 5-0 Broadcaster: Patrick Duggan
At Portland Series History: BYU leads series 11-4 Broadcasters: Sarah Griffin and Cody Barton (Portland on Stretch)/ Ty Brandenburg (BYU Radio)
WCC Quarterfinal: vs. Loyola Marymount Series History: BYU leads series 5-1 Broadcasters: Dave McCann and Blaine Fowler (Play-by-play); Steve Cleveland and Jarom Jordan (Halftime); Steve Cleveland, Blaine Fowler, and Jarom Jordan (Bridge Show)
WCC Semifinal: vs. Gonzaga Series History: Gonzaga leads series 6-5 Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Steve Cleveland, and Jarom Jordan
WNIT 1st Round: Idaho State Series History: BYU leads series 11-3 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Andy Boyce
WNIT 2nd Round: San Diego State Series History: BYU leads series 28-13 Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Kristen Kozlowski, and Robbie Bullough
WNIT 3rd Round: Saint Mary's Series History: Series even 2-2 Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Kristen Kozlowski, and Andy Boyce
Rankings + Regular season pollsPoll Pre-Season Week1 Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Week17 Week18 Final AP NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Coaches RV RV NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR + Legend Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking No change (RV) Received votes (NR) Not ranked
See also BYU Cougars women's basketball
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