Baylor WBB to Face BYU at Foster on Saturday Night

Fri Feb 7 15:04:59 CST 2025

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RV/RV BAYLOR BEARS (19-5, 9-2 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Nicki Collen (Marquette, 1998)
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RV/RV BAYLOR (19-5, 9-2 Big 12) vs BYU COUGARS (12-10, 3-8 Big 12)
Feb. 8, 2025 • 7 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500)

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BYU COUGARS (12-10, 3-8 Big 12)
Location: Provo, Utah
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Amber Whiting (BYU, 2001)
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Game notes-

• Baylor faces BYU for the first and only time in the 2024-25 regular season on Saturday night, hosting the Cougs at 7 p.m. CT on ESPN+.

• Baylor has its best start to conference play in the Nicki Collen era through 11 games with a 9-2 record.

• The Bears remain the leading rebounding team in the Big 12 Conference, averaging 43.46 per game, enough for eighth in the NCAA, and hold an average margin of 10.9 boards over their opponents.

• BU completed a 10-3 non-conference slate, going perfect at home in the first season of non-con play at Foster Pavilion, with losses coming at Oregon, against Indiana in The Bahamas and No. 1 UCLA in Newark at the Coretta Scott King Classic.

• Baylor’s fall from the AP poll marks the 21st instance in the last 389 polls that the Bears have not been ranked in the AP Top 25. Week Nos. 7 and 10 were also just the seventh and eighth time in that span, dating back to January 5, 2004, that Baylor received zero votes following a streak of 347 consecutive appearances broken on January 16, 2023.

• Baylor and BYU each come to Saturday’s game with two wins apiece over the other, BYU’s coming last season in Provo and BU’s last in 2006 in Waco.

• With an upset victory at the Marriott Center in Provo, the Cougars used a 52.6% performance from the floor to get the win over the Bears in their first season in the Big 12, 78-66.

• BYU brings in two players averaging double-figure points in Delaney Gibb (17.0) and Emma Calvert (12.7), while Mayra Hudgins’ six rebounds per game lead the squad at the board.

• The Cougars are on a swing trip through Texas, facing TCU in Fort Worth on Tuesday night before returning home to see Oklahoma State in Provo.

• Through games on Feb. 6, Baylor is ranked 20th in the NET, going 0-3 against Quad 1 programs and 5-2 over Quad 2.

• BU’s highest-ranked NET win is over No. 26 Utah, who holds the first spot out of Q1.

• Remaining in the Big 12 slate, BU is set to face three Q1 teams, two in Q2 and two in Q3.

• BYU enters the contest at No. 82, with a NET-best win over No. 85 Wyoming.

• Junior Darianna Littlepage-Buggs averages a double-double (13.9 ppg, 10.0 rpg) in 22 games this season with 16 double-digit scoring performances, three with 20+.

• Against UNLV, Littlepage-Buggs became the eighth Bear to record a 20-point, 20-rebound game with 21 points and 20 rebounds. She joins Debbie Polk, Maggie Davis Stinnett, Danielle Crockrom, Sophia Young-Malcolm, Brittney Griner, Kalani Brown and NaLyssa Smith, Smith who most recently had a 20/20 game against Iowa State in the 2021-22 season.

• In the first 20 seconds of the game at Houston, Littlepage-Buggs recorded her 1,000th career point.

• She’s set new career-best marks this season in rebounds (20 vs UNLV), assists (six at Houston), steals (five vs Utah Tech), 3-pointers (two vs UIW), and free throws made (10 vs ETAMU). Buggs has also tied or set her career best marks in attempts for all three shot categories.

• On February 6, Littlepage-Buggs was announced as one of 10 finalists for the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award.

• Yaya Felder has been a force for Baylor, coming off the bench for the Bears in all but one contest with an average of 10.8 points per game with three 3-pointers in each of the last two contests.

• Felder is the only player in the Big 12 Conference to average double-figure points off the bench this season.

• The senior in her second year at Baylor has played 105 minutes without a turnover, dating back to Baylor’s January 17, 2024, game against Houston.

• Dominating a battered Houston squad dissipated by injuries, Baylor defeated the Cougars, 92-47, in Houston in the second visit to the Fertitta Center in two years.

• Matching the largest margin of victory over a conference opponent in the Collen era, BU shot their way to a win at 57.8% from the field with 11 3-pointers, the eighth game this season with double-digit triples.

• Darianna Littlepage-Buggs scored her 1,000th career point in the contest within 17 seconds en route to 19 points with seven rebounds and a career-high six assists.

• Bella Fontleroy led the boards for the night, getting nine with one coming off the offensive glass.

• Yaya Felder scored 15 off the bench with zero turnovers and eight assists.

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Colin Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (WBB, WTEN)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 940-564-0351

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