No. 6/6 Baylor WBB Faces Texas in Big 12 Semis Saturday (BU Game Notes Attached)

Fri Mar 12 20:24:44 CST 2021

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#6/6 BAYLOR LADY BEARS (23-2)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1573> (La. Tech, 1984)

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#6/6 BAYLOR (23-2) vs. TEXAS (18-8)
March 13, 2021 | Noon | Big 12 Championship SF
Kansas City, Mo. | Municipal Auditorium (10,116)
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TEXAS LONGHORNS (18-8)
Location: Austin, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Vic Schaefer

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BAYLOR SETS THREE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLE-GAME RECORDS IN 37-POINT QUARTERFINALS WIN OVER TCU
    The Baylor Lady Bears flexed their muscles in the quarterfinals round of the 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship by winning 92-55 over TCU and setting three new single-game records in the Big 12 Championship. Baylor hit 14-14 shots from the charity stripe to set the record for most free throws without a miss, grabbed 41 defensive rebounds, and capped it off by scoring the most points ever in a quarter with a 33-point fourth. Baylor moved to 18-4 all-time in the Big 12 Championship Quarterfinals and won its 32nd-consecutive matchup with TCU to advance to the semifinals.
     Baylor is 13-2 all-time in the Big 12 Championship semifinals round and will be gunning for its 11th Big 12 Conference Championship title. Baylor will also be looking for its ninth in the last 10 tournaments after taking the trophies from 2011-2016 and 2018-19.

BAYLOR VS. THE LONGHORNS
     Baylor has nine-straight wins over Texas and the Lady Bears have beaten the Longhorns in 25 of the last 26 meetings. Texas' last win came in Waco, Feb. 6, 2017 and prior to that, Baylor had not fallen to Texas since March 7, 2010. In the Big 12 Tournament Championship with the Longhorns, Baylor leads the series, 3-2, and the Lady Bears have taken the last three meetings.
     In two regular-season matchups this season, Baylor took both games with NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10009> averaging 18.5 points per game in each of the wins while Queen Egbo<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10005> averaged 13.0 rebounds and 12.0 points per game. No players from Texas averaged double figures in scoring in the first two meetings this year.

LADY BEARS IN NATION'S LEAD FOR FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE DEFENSE … AGAIN
     For four-straight years and five since the 2010-11 season, the Baylor Lady Bears have been the NCAA Statistical Champion in Defensive Field Goal Percentage. It took until Feb. 14, but Baylor leads the category again through 25 games at a .319 clip. The Lady Bears also lead the nation in rebound margin (19.3) and Assists Per Game (21.7).

BAYLOR TAKES HOME SEVERAL ALL-CONFERENCE AWARDS TO COMPLIMENT 11TH-STRAIGHT REGULAR-SEASON TITLE
     NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10009> was the ninth Lady Bear in Baylor history to pick up Big 12 Player of the Year honors, and she was a unanimous selection to the All-Big 12 First Team, the league announced Wednesday. DiJonai Carrington<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10073> was named Big 12 Sixth Person of the Year and continued the trend of graduate transfers at Baylor winning the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. She joined Chloe Jackson (2019) and Te'a Cooper<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9541> (2020) to become the third-straight winner for Baylor, and Carrington was named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
     DiDi Richards<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10008> and Moon Ursin<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10010> both landed spots on each the All-Big 12 Second Team and Big 12 All-Defensive Team while Queen Egbo<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10005> rounded out the Lady Bears' selections on the honorable mention team.

SMITH, RICHARDS NAMED TO NAISMITH/WBCA 'FINAL FIVE' FOR RESPECTIVE NATIONAL POSITION AWARDS
     Baylor's NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10009> and DiDi Richards<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10008> are in strong contention for national awards at their respective positions. Richards, March 1, was named to the Nancy Lieberman Award 'Final Five' list for nation's best point guard while Smith was named to the Katrina McClain Award 'Final Five' for power forwards, March 4. March 5 the position award short lists concluded and fans can vote for their selections at HoopHallAwards.com. Baylor fans can vote Richards and Smith along with their selections at shooting guard, small forward and center through March 19. Award winners will be announced shortly after the 2021 Final Four.

AP POLL RESEARCH SHOWS MULKEY AS ACTIVE LEADER IN TOTAL TOP 25 APPEARANCES AS PLAYER, ASSISTANT AND HEAD COACH
     Longtime women's hoops guru Mel Greenberg put together a list of coaches and players' appearances in the AP Top 25 poll over the years and found that Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1573> is the NCAA's active leader in appearances at 667 from her time as a player and assistant at Louisiana Tech and her 21-year tenure as head coach at Baylor. She trails only Holly Warlick (693) for most all-time appearances; Warlick played, assisted Pat Summitt and was head coach at Tennessee from 2012-2019.

COVID-19'S EFFECT ON THE LADY BEARS
     Baylor lost four games scheduled for the Preseason WNIT in Waco in November, along with a Thanksgiving week game vs. Oregon in Las Vegas. Baylor lost its top-10 matchup with UConn Jan. 7.
     Moon Ursin<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10010>, lost her grandmother, Ruby Alexander, to the virus in April after a swift and brief battle with COVID. Kamaria McDaniel<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10266>, a transfer from Penn State that is having to sit this season, lost her grandfather, Johnny Webster, Sr., in April as well. Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1573>, Jordyn Oliver<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10006>, DiJonai Carrington<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10073> and Caitlin Bickle<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10004> have all had to miss time due to COVID-19 protocols this season.

RICHARDS RETURNS TO FLOOR AFTER SPINAL INJURY, FEATURED ON ESPN'S SPORTSCENTER
     Oct. 24, Moon Ursin<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10010> and DiDi Richards<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10008> collided in mid-air during a practice scrimmage, leaving Ursin with a concussion and Richards with a Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality (SCIOWRA). Ursin returned to practice after clearing concussion protocol in mid-November while Richards' rehab began immediately after she briefly lost feeling below her knees. Richards was first confined to a walker to assist her in walking, but by mid-November, she was completing individual drills and workouts with medical and strength & conditioning staff. Richards shocked doctors, team medical staff and coaches with the rate of her rehab. Thirty-eight days after the injury, she played 30 minutes off the bench at South Florida Dec. 1. She scored a bucket 13 seconds into her entry, and picked up where she left off last season by leading Baylor with seven assists. Dec. 6 in Fayetteville, Ark., she resumed her starting role, getting her first start at point guard and finished the contest with a game-high eight assists. She led the Big 12 in assists per game in 2019-20, ranked 13th in the nation and had the NCAA's sixth-best assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.9:1.

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Kyle Robarts | Associate Director, Athletics Communications (WBB, WTEN)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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