Provo • Junior guard Brenna Chase says the BYU women’s basketball team “is doing more rebounding drills than I have ever done in my life” in preseason camp as the Cougars prepare for the 2018-19 season.
First, the Cougars will start the season without their only other returning starter, 6-foot-7 sophomore center Sara Hamson. She was BYU’s best rebounder last season, averaging 7.7 boards per game, but sustained an ACL injury in early August while preparing for volleyball season and won’t return to the basketball lineup until December, at the earliest.
Second, the Cougars were a bad rebounding team last season, even with Hamson in the lineup, and that shortcoming was especially evident when they were bounced out of the West Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals last March by San Diego.