PROVO, UTAH – Coastal Carolina women's basketball fell 91-57 to the BYU Cougars on Wednesday night at the at the Marriott Center.

The Chants dropped to 0-2 to start the season.

COASTAL LEADERS
Kristin Williams finished as Coastal's leading scorer with 17 points on 7-15 shooting and 3-10 from distance. Tracey Hueston dropped in 13 points, going 4-10 from the field and 5-7 from the free-throw line. Hueston also finished one rebound shy of a double-double with nine to lead the team.

GAME RECAP
Hueston opened up the scoring by grabbing an offensive rebound and putting it back to give the Chants the lead in the first minute. The Cougars would take advantage in the next few minutes before Tessa Grady knocked down a three to make it 9-8 in favor of the Chants. The Cougars took the lead back on a pair of made free throws and stretched their lead to six before Williams closed the opening frame on a pull-up three-pointer to end the quarter down 17-14.

BYU opened the second quarter by scoring the first seven points to push their lead to 10. Coastal clawed back and brought the deficit to two on a three-pointer by Kinsea Grimes with 3:19 left in the half to make the score 26-24. The Cougars outscored the Chants 10-5 in the final minutes to take a 36-29 lead into halftime.

The home team took control out of the locker room by going on a 20-0 run and outscored Coastal 22-8 in the third quarter to end the frame with a 58-37 advantage.

BYU continued their offensive momentum in the fourth by outscoring Coastal 33-20 and finished off their 91-57 victory.

TEAM STATS
Coastal shot 28 percent from the field, going 20-71. The Chants made seven of their 36 three-point attempts, finishing at 19 percent. BYU outrebounded Coastal 46-43 while shooting 48 percent from the field and 28 percent from long-range.

The Chants forced 25 turnovers while committing 27 of their own.

UP NEXT

Coastal returns to the HTC Center on Sunday, Nov. 9 to take on Lees-McRae at 1 ET.