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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – June 27, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Big 12 WBB Opponent Matrix Released for 2025 Season</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Bears bout with Colorado, Houston, TCU twice in league play<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">IRVING, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> The Big 12 Conference announced the opponent matrix for the 2024-25 season on Thursday
morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Moving into the 16-team era of the league, programs will face six teams exclusively at home or on the road with a home-and-away assignment between three other squads.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BU will see Houston, TCU and Colorado both in the Foster Pavilion and on the road in 2025. The layout marks the second-straight year in a home-and-away format with Houston
while returning to Fort Worth after a home-only stint in 2024. 2010 was the final time Baylor faced Colorado at home before playing in Boulder for the last time during the 2011 season.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BYU, Utah, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Cincinnati and West Virginia will all come to Waco, while the Bears hit the road to face Arizona, Arizona State, Kansas, Kansas State,
Texas Tech and UCF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Cincinnati and BYU will visit Waco for the first time as part of the league schedule and the Utah Utes make their second trip to Central Texas in as many years after last season’s
non-conference defeat of the then-No. 4 team in the nation, 84-77.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor’s 2025 road slate features three new conference destinations, visiting two of the Big 12’s newest members in Tempe and Tucson while seeing UCF for the first time in
Orlando. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Opponents were selected based on a combination of geography, historical results and a poll of the coaches to best balance the schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness.
A full Big 12 schedule will be released at a later date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Fans interested in tickets for the upcoming Baylor women's basketball season can fill out the Baylor Ticket Interest Form
<a href="https://app.baylorbears.com/BUWBBTix?_ga=2.92418772.833905063.1719238642-563801125.1705438901">
here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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