Baylor WBB Awaits UCLA in Inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic

Sun Jan 19 14:10:56 CST 2025

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RV/24 BAYLOR BEARS (16-3, 6-1 Big 12)
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Head Coach: Nicki Collen (Marquette, 1998)
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RV/24 BAYLOR (16-3, 6-1 Big 12) vs 1/1 UCLA BRUINS (17-0, 6-0 Big Ten)
Jan. 20, 2025 • 2 p.m. CT
Newark, N.J. • Prudential Center (16,755)

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1/1 UCLA BRUINS (17-0, 6-0 Big Ten)
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Conference/Affiliation: Big Ten
Head Coach: Cori Close (UC Santa Barbara, 1993)
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Game notes

• Baylor faces off against No. 1 UCLA in the inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. CT.

• Baylor has its best start to conference play in the Nicki Collen era with a 6-1 record. The Bears are riding a five-game winning streak split 3-0 at home and 2-0 on the road.

• The Bears got their first ranked win of the season in the first attempt on Tuesday against 23rd-ranked Utah, defeating the Utes by nine points in Waco.

• First getting the top nod from the AP Poll voters in Week Five to begin the month of December, UCLA is unblemished 17 games into the 2024-25 season.

• With a schedule change made in response to the fires in LA, UCLA has only played two games in the two weeks leading up to the clash against the Bears in the Coretta Scott King Classic. In those two games, the Bruins downed Purdue 83-49 and Penn State 86-67.

• Baylor leads the all-time series against UCLA, 7-3, but the Bruins saw victory in the previous game played in Los Angeles in the 2017-18 season.

• Lauren Betts is the leading scorer for UCLA, averaging 19.7 points per game, joining Kiki Rice (12.8) and Gabriela Jaquez (10.3) in double figures. Betts is also the leading rebounder with 9.9 rebounds per game.

• The Baylor women’s basketball squad is 2-11 against the No. 1 team in the nation all-time with the most recent of the two wins coming in Hartford against a top-ranked UConn squad in January 2020. BU held the Huskies to just four points in the final six minutes of action to pull away and secure the 16-point win.

• BU was 0-10 all-time against No. 1 foes, but got its first win on Jan. 3, 2019, over UConn in Waco.

• Head coach Nicki Collen has never faced the top of the AP Top 25 in her four years at the helm of the program. The last top-ranked matchup BU saw was against No. 1 UConn in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The game ended in a 69-67 decision that came down to the final seconds in the paint.

• BU got its fifth straight win in a Friday night contest against the Houston Cougars at Foster Pavilion in the first of two games played against the two squads this conference season.

• Baylor held UH to just 27.3% from the floor while the Bears had their worst performance at the arc in the Collen era at 14.3% (3-21).

• Aaronette Vonleh led scoring for the second-straight game with 18 and nine rebounds.

• Darianna Littlepage-Buggs and Aliyah Matharu each scored double figures.

• Freshman Kayla Nelms had her best game against a Big 12 foe so far, scoring six in eight minutes.

• The Coretta Scott King Classic was created to honor the legacy of Mrs. King and celebrate female empowerment in sports and is the first time the names of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King have been licensed for a sporting event.

• The first-of-its-kind DH was formed through The King Center, FOX Sports, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment and Playfly Sports.

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Colin Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (WBB, WTEN)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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