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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Feb. 7, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">WBB’s Lewis Named to Top 10 for Naismith’s Lieberman Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Naismith/WBCA Narrows List of Nation’s Top Point Guards to 10</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Krista Pirtle, 254-447-8610,
</span><a href="mailto:Krista_Pirtle@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Krista_Pirtle@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Springfield, Mass. –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Baylor’s Jordan Lewis earned a spot as a Top 10 candidate for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall
of Fame and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association 2022 Nancy Lieberman Award, announced Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The sixth-year grad transfer ranks second in the Big 12 with a 2.17 assist-to-turnover ratio and third in the league with 5.2 assists per game. Lewis is No. 15 in the
nation amongst active Division I student-athletes with 1,832 career points and second with 625 career assists. She leads the country with 152 career games played.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Windermere, Fla., native became just the third Bear in program history to log a triple-double with a 10-point, 10-rebound, 11-assist performance in Baylor’s win at
West Virginia on Jan. 29. It also marked just the second time a player has had at least 10 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in a Big 12 game.
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On the season, Lewis is averaging 11.4 points per game for the Bears.
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In March, the committee will declare five finalists, and the winner will be announced on a date to be determined with the other four members of the Naismith/WBCA Starting
Five awards. Odyssey Sims won the Lieberman Award in 2014, while Alexis Jones (2017), Te’a Cooper (2020) and DiDi Richards (2021) have been past finalists for the honor for Baylor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For the latest news on the Baylor women’s basketball team all season long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorWBB.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2022 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award Candidates</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jordan Lewis Baylor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nia Clouden Michigan State<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Diamond Johnson NC State<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Veronica Burton Northwestern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Khayla Pointer LSU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Caitlin Clark Iowa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hailey Van Lith Louisville<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ashley Owusu Maryland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Olivia Miles Notre Dame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Destanni Henderson South Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Players can play their way onto and off the list at any point in the 2021-22 season</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">www.BaylorBears.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0A5026">Krista Pirtle</span></b><span style="color:#0A5026"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">| Associate Director of Athletics Communications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">C: 254-447-8610</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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