No. 4 Baylor WBB Takes on No. 7 Texas for Big 12 Championship Title

Sat Mar 12 17:40:12 CST 2022

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4/4 BAYLOR BEARS (27-5, 15-3)
Location: Waco,Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Nicki Collen<https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=662> (Marquette, 1998)

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BAYLOR (27-5, 15-3) vs. TEXAS (25-6, 13-5)
March 13, 2022 • 1 p.m. CT
Kansas City, Mo. • Municipal Auditorium

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7/9 TEXAS LONGHORNS (25-6, 13-5)
Location: Austin, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Vic Shaeffer (Texas A&M, 1984)

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TO THE TITLE GAME
• Baylor advanced to its 11th-straight Big 12 Championship title game with a 15-point win over Oklahoma. Nicki Collen<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1721> became the first first-year head coach to advance to the title game since 1997.
• NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10721> went off with a career-high 37 points in the semifinal. That mark is good for second in Big 12 Championship semifinal history.
• Caitlin Bickle<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10717> also had a career day with 21 points.
• Baylor's 91 points tied for fouth-most all-time in a Big 12 semifinal contest.
• Baylor set a Big 12 Championship record with two turnovers. That mark also tied a program record that was set on Feb. 1, 2014 against Texas.

PITCHED A SHUTOUT
• Baylor set a program record, a Big 12 Championship record and tied an NCAA record when it held Oklahoma State scoreless in the first quarter on Friday.
• Overall, BU held OSU to 36 points, a Big 12 Championship record and won by 40 points, which stands for second in league tournament win margin.
• OSU's 13 field goals were the second-fewest made in the league tournament, and BU held the Cowgirls to 14 points in the first half, a mark that ties for fifth in the Big 12 Championship record book.
• With the win, Baylor moved to 47-13 all-time at the Big 12 Championship and 17-5 in the quarterfinal round.

TWELVE IN A ROW
• Baylor clinched a share of the regular-season Big 12 title with a 25-point win on the road at No. 8 Iowa State in front of a record crowd at Hilton Coliseum.
• BU's streak of 12 regular-season titles in a row is the longest active streak in the country in men's AND women's hoops.
• The streak ties for fourth all-time in WBB behind Green Bay 20 (1999-2018), Louisiana Tech 15 (2003-17), Stanford 14 (2001-14) and Old Dominion 12 (1993-2004).
• With 24 combined conference championships, Baylor ties Stanford for the most among Power 5 schools since 2004-05.
• With a win over Texas Tech on Sunday or an Iowa State loss on Saturday, Baylor would clinch the championship outright.
• Baylor became the first school since Texas Tech in 2000 to start league play 0-2 and end up winning the conference title.

WALKING DOUBLE-DOUBLE
• NaLyssa Smith<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10721> is fifth in the country with 23 double-doubles on the season. That mark ties her for first all-time in Baylor history alongside Debbie Polk (1980-81).
• Smith is third in program history with 50 career double-doubles.
• The senior is averaging 22.5 points and 11.6 rebounds per game which both rank No. 8 in the country. She is the only player in the country who is averaging 22+ points and 11+ rebounds per game.

LET IT FLY
• Baylor has now set a program record for 3s made (216) and 3s attempted (614) in a single season.
• Baylor's program record for triples made came on Dec. 18, 2019 against Arkansas State when Juicy Landrum caught fire and set an NCAA record with 14 triples. Besides that record-setting performance, BU hadn't drained more than a dozen shots from deep in a game since 2011.
• From 2013-14 to 2020-21, Baylor made 10 or more 3-pointers in a game only five times across a total of 281 games (1.78 percent). BU has done so five times this season.
• At Kansas, Baylor nearly set a record with a 14-for-29 display from the perimeter. BU's 14 treys marked the second most in program history.
• Prior to this year, only 14 Bears had made six or more 3s in a game. Two of them had done it multiple times (Makenzie Robertson, 2012, 2014) and Jennifer King (1990, 1991, 1993).
• Sarah Andrews<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10716> and Ja'Mee Asberry<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10724> have already joined that elite club this season. Andrews went 6-for-8 against Morehead State and from deep and Asberry fired off 6-of-8 against Alcorn State. Asberry then went 6-for-11 at Kansas, and Andrews set a career-high with a 7-for-10 mark.
• Andrews' seven 3s tied for third in program history. She is now one of six Bears in program history to hit a minimum of seven triples in a game.
• Jordan Lewis<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10723> joined the club with her 6-of-7 performance against Iowa State.
• Asberry is fourth in program history with 74 3s made this season.

Krista Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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