IRVING, Texas – BYU’s Delaney Gibb (player) and Iowa State’s Tjaša Turnšek (freshman) garnered Monster Energy Big 12 Women’s Basketball weekly honors for the first week of the 2026-27 season.

Kansas’ Jaliya Davis, Utah’s Lena Girardi and West Virginia’s Skylar Forbes joined the pair on the Big 12 Starting Five, which highlights strong performances from around the league.

Gibb recorded the first triple-double by a BYU player since 1986 and the program’s first points-rebounds-assists triple-double since 1982. The junior posted 15 points on 5-of-11 shooting, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 97-53 win over Montana. Gibb averaged 13.7 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists while leading the Cougars to a 3-0 start for the fourth consecutive season. The Raymond, Alberta, Canada, native led all scorers in the season opener with 17 points, shooting 4-of-9 from beyond the arc while adding seven rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block against Idaho State. Gibb, a 10-time Conference Freshman of the Week honoree two seasons ago, is BYU’s first Big 12 Player of the Week since the 2023-24 season.

Turnšek scored in double figures in each of her first three collegiate games, including an 18-point, 13-rebound performance in a 68-44 win over Nicholls for her first career double-double. By reaching the milestone in her second career game, she became the second-fastest Iowa State freshman to record a double-double. In the 77-61 victory over Eastern Illinois, the forward from Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia, posted her first 20-point game to become the Cyclones’ first league freshman weekly award winner since the 2023-24 campaign.  

Davis scored 20 points in both of KU’s wins to open the season and recorded a career-high five blocks against Omaha. Girardi averaged 22.5 points per game in two Utah victories while making a career-high 10 free throws against Eastern Washington. Forbes posted a career-high 26 points against George Washington before scoring 23 points in an 81-63 win on the road over Georgia Tech, extending the Big 12’s winning streak over the ACC to four games, all by double-digit margins.  

Big 12 Player of the Week (Nov. 9)
Delaney Gibb, BYU, G, Jr.

Big 12 Freshman of the Week (Nov. 9)
Tjaša Turnšek, Iowa State, F

Big 12 Starting Five (Nov. 9)
Delaney Gibb, BYU, G, Jr. (player)
Tjaša Turnšek, Iowa State, F, Fr. (freshman)
Jaliya Davis, Kansas, F, So.
Lena Girardi, Utah, G, So.
Skylar Forbes, West Virginia, F, Sr.