No. 2/2 Baylor WBB Looks to Send Seniors Out with a Win [BU Game Notes Attached]

Thu Mar 5 08:31:52 CST 2020

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#2/2 BAYLOR LADY BEARS (27-1, 16-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> (La. Tech, 1984)

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#2/2 BAYLOR (27-1, 16-0) VS TEXAS (18-10, 10-8)
March 5, 2020 | 7:30 PM (CT)
Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284)

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TEXAS LONGHORNS (18-10, 10-8)
Location: Austin, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Karen Aston

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BAYLOR LADY BEARS WIN 11TH BIG 12 REGULAR SEASON TITLE OUTRIGHT, 10TH STRAIGHT
   Following Baylor's win over K-State Saturday, the Baylor Lady Bears celebrated their 11th overall and 10th-straight Big 12 regular season championship. BU head coach Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> and seniors Lauren Cox<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9530> & Juicy Landrum<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9533> all interviewed live on ESPN+ and on the public address system to celebrate the event before Mulkey invited the crowd of nearly 7,000 down to the floor to celebrate. For Cox and Landrum, it was their fourth-straight title while graduate transfers Te'a Cooper<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9541> & Erin DeGrate<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9540> along with true freshman Jordyn Oliver<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9539> cut their first piece of the net. Between regular season, Big 12 tournament titles, NCAA regional titles and NCAA championships, Mulkey cut down her 28th net for Baylor University and the women's basketball program Saturday.
   The Lady Bears' 10th consecutive regular season conference title is the longest active streak in the nation, and since the 1999-2000 season Baylor's 11 conference titles are tied for seventh most in the NCAA. The Lady Bears now have extended their Big 12 record to 21 conference championships between regular season and tournament titles, all under Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464>.

LADY BEARS STILL IN POSITION FOR NO. 1 SEED AT DALLAS REGIONAL, NCAA COMMITTEE REVEALS
     In the final reveal before Selection Monday March 16, the NCAA Women's Basketball Selection Committee revealed its final Top 16 projections of the season with Baylor as a No. 1 seed and headed just 100 miles north to the Dallas Regional. South Carolina, Oregon and Maryland joined the Lady Bears as No. 1 seeds, and if the season ended Monday, Baylor would have been joined in Dallas by Stanford, Mississippi State and Iowa.

WE'RE GOING STREAKING: BAYLOR HAS SEVERAL STREAKS ON THE LINE VS. TEXAS
   Texas was the last team to defeat Baylor at home, and that came Feb. 6, 2017. But, since then, the Lady Bears have 55-straight home-court victories, which is the nation's longest active home-court winning streak. The Lady Bears got to play a direct role in taking the longest active streak when Baylor ended UConn's 98-game home-court winning streak, Jan. 9. Fifty-five-straight home wins is tied for the 11th-longest home-win streak in NCAA history.
   Baylor won its 57th-straight Big 12 game in the regular season Saturday, which ties for the sixth-longest
conference-win streak in NCAA history. The Lady Bears will also look for their eighth-straight win over Texas.

400 WINS AT THE FERRELL CENTER
   Baylor's win at the Ferrell Center Saturday was the program's 400th victory in the friendly confines of Waco, and with just 97 losses at home, it has proved to be one of the toughest places in women's college basketball for a visitor to come away with a win. Couple that with Baylor's 55-straight home wins since 2017, and the Ferrell Center has been a great place to call home. With plans for a new basketball arena looming, the Ferrell Center has seen many great moments in the history of Baylor women's basketball.

LADY BEARS RANK NO. 1 IN THE NATION IN SIX STATISTICAL CATEGORIES
   The 27-1 Lady Bears rank in the top 10 nationally in 15 categories through games played through March 2. Baylor ranks No. 1 in the nation in six categories: Assists (633), Assists Per Game (22.6), Field Goal Percentage (.507), Field Goal Percentage Defense (.309), and Scoring Margin (31.9) and Three-Point Field Goal Percentage (.400).
   In addition, Baylor ranks in the top five in six additional categories.
   DiDi Richards<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9535> ranks 5th nationally in assists-to-turnover ratio (3.04:1) while also cracking the Top 25 in assists per game at 15th (5.6) and assists at 15th (158). Juicy Landrum<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9533> is back in the Top 25 after a brief absence in the assists-to-turnover ratio, ranking 11th nationally and third in the Big 12 with a 2.70:1 mark. NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9537> ranks 12th in the nation and 2nd in the Big 12 in field goal percentage with a .593 shooting mark.

MULKEY REACHES HISTORIC MILESTONE AT TEXAS TECH
   Baylor's win at Texas Tech Feb. 18 gave 20th-year head coach Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> her 600th victory, and she became the fastest NCAA Division I coach, man or woman, to accomplish the feat. Her milestone along with the Baylor men's 23-game Big 12-win streak (record) led off the 10 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter Tuesday night. While not a complete list, Mulkey beat Adolph Rupp (704 games), Geno Auriemma (716), Jerry Tarkanian (720), Pat Summitt (734), Roy Williams (739), John Wooden (755) and Dean Smith (773) to the punch. Were Baylor to fall to Texas Tech, the Lady Bears would need pull out just one win in the following three games for Mulkey to still achieve the feat. In addition to reaching the milestone in the fewest amount of games, Mulkey would also reach 600 in her 20th season, two seasons faster than the next coach on the list, Auriemma, who achieved 600 in his 22nd season at UConn.

MULKEY NAMED A NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME FINALIST FOR THE SECOND TIME
   Feb. 14, Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> learned that she was a finalist in the coach category for the 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class. Mulkey was also a finalist in 2018 in the coach category, and she was also nominated as a player. Mulkey joined Rudy Tomjanovich, Barbara Stevens, Tamika Catchings, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and Eddie Sutton as the eight finalists this year. A finalist needs 18 of 24 votes from the committee to be inducted into the 2020 class, which will be announced April 4 at 10 a.m. on ESPN from the NCAA Men's Final Four in Atlanta. Enshrinement festivities will take place in Springfield, Mo., Aug. 28-30.

THREE LADY BEARS NAMED FINALISTS FOR WBCA 'STARTING FIVE' AWARDS; COX & MULKEY UP FOR NATIONAL AWARDS
   Te'a Cooper<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9541>, Lauren Cox<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9530> and Queen Egbo<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9532> have all be selected as finalists in their respective positions for the Naismith Hall of Fame/WBCA Starting Five Awards. Cooper was named a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award that honors the nation's top point guard Monday, for the third-straight year Cox was named a finalist for the Katrina McClain Award for nation's top power forward Thursday, and Egbo earned a spot on Friday's Lisa Leslie Award top 10 for the nation's top center.
   All three awards named 10 finalists this week and will narrow the list to the "Final Five" in March.
   Tuesday, Cox was named among 10 semifinalists for the Citizen Naismith Trophy, which honors the nation's top women's college basketball player while Mulkey was among 10 semifinalists for the Naismith National Coach of the Year, announced Wednesday. A full list of Baylor's honors this year is on page 5.

50/50 – BAYLOR'S MAGIC NUMBER OFFENSIVELY & DEFENSIVELY
   Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> coached teams at Baylor 236-1 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field, while just 16 times in 19-plus seasons has an opponent shot 50 percent or better against the Lady Bears defense. Baylor's only loss when shooting 50 percent or better came vs. Mississippi State in the 2017 Elite 8.

COX & RICHARDS NAMED AMONG 10 SEMI-FINALISTS FOR NAISMITH DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
   Lauren Cox<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9530> is the 2-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, and DiDi Richards'<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9535> reputation for her on-ball defense earned her First-Team All-Big 12 honors last year. This year, those performances have carried over to national recognition as the pair made the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year semi-finalists, which includes just 10 players.
   Cox has missed time due to injury, but is still averaging 2.6 blocks and 1.2 steals per game while opponent's offensive scouting reports are scrambled when they face the Cox-led Lady Bears. Richards' steal numbers are up to 1.9 per game, she's added 23 blocks this season and still draws assignments for each opponent's top perimeter player throughout the season.

WRAPPING UP A NINE-YEAR RUN OF DOMINANCE FOR BAYLOR'S LADY BEARS
     Baylor closed 2019 with a 335-23 record between Jan. 2, 2010 and Dec. 30, 2019 for a .936 winning percentage. Last decade produced two national championships (2012, 2019), three Final Fours (2010, 2012, 2019), 10 Sweet 16s, 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, nine Big 12 regular season championships, and eight Big 12 Tournament titles. It also saw 11 players receive WBCA First-Team All-America honors, seven earned Associated Press All-Americans, eight were named USBWA First-Team All-Americans, Kim Mulkey<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1464> earned seven different National Coach of the Year honors and six Big 12 Coach of the Year awards. Six players were named Big 12 Player of the Year and 22 players earned First-Team All-Big 12.

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