SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara women's basketball fell to BYU 68-63 on Thursday night in Leavey. Despite leading after each of the first three quarters, a difficult fourth quarter cost the Broncos.
In the fourth there were three ties and three lead changes in the final period with BYU taking the lead for good at 2:46 on a pair of free throws from Kalani Purcell.
"Tonight was a physical game like we expected," said Santa Clara head coach JR Payne. "Rebounding is purely effort and in the first half we were dominating that. In the second half clearly they had the advantage.