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Texas comes into this game at 5-9 in conference play and off a loss at KSU last Saturday. Baylor survived their closest game this season against Tech to remain undefeated in league play and overall. Texas seeks a signature win while Baylor looks to nail down an outright conference title. In their last meeting earlier this season on Jan. 15, 2012 in Austin, Baylor took a 77-59 win. Austin). Texas will be looking to break a three game losing streak to Baylor while the Lady Bears seek to run that streak to four in a row.
Baylor has three players averaging in double figures: Brittney Griner (#42, 6-8 Jr. P) is averaging 23.6 ppg; Odyssey Sims (#00, 5-9 Soph. G) is at 12.0 ppg and Destiny Williams (#10, 6-1 Jr. RS Jr. F/P) is at 10.5 ppg. Kimetria Hayden (#1, 6-0 Jr. G) with 43-105 FGs made/attempted (41.0%) joins those three leading scorers as the four Lady Bears that have taken at least 100 FG attempts in conference. Griner is at 128-222 (57.7%); Sims has 62-137 (45.3%) while Williams has numbers of 64-130 (49.2%). Brooklyn Pope has the second best shooting percentage among players averaging at least 10 mpg at 52.6% (30-57). Four players are the main 3pt threats for Baylor with Sims the primary shooter (20-56, 35.7%). Hayden (8-30, 26.7%) and Jordan Madden (#3, 6-0 Jr. G; 8-37, 21.6%) are the two others that have taken at least 30 3s. Terran Condrey (#20, 5-7, Sr. G) has the best percentage at 60.0% (6-10). As expected, Griner is the far and away the Lady Bear that gets to the FT line. She has taken 49 more FTs than the next closest player. She is doing an excellent job of capitalizing on her chances there, hitting 82.0% of her FTs (73-89). Hayden is second in FTs made and attempted at 30-40 (75.0%). Three other Lady Bears hit at least 80% from the FT line: Sims (24-29, 82.8%), Williams (19-23, 82.6%) and Shanay Washington (#4, 6-1 RS Soph. G; 8-10, 80.0%).
Williams is the leading rebounder at 10.7 rpg while Griner adds 9.0 rpg and Pope 5.3 rpg. Hayden is the leading distributor with 67 assists while Sims (48 assists) and Madden (40 assists) rank second and third. Griner is the top post with 27 assists. She is also the top shot blocker with 79. Williams is the only other Lady Bear with double figure blocks with 12. Five players have at least 10 steals, led by Sims with 36 and Hayden with 21.
Six players have played in all 12 conference games. Three have played in 12. Two have gotten into 11 and one into 9. Seven are averaging at least 12 mpg: Griner, Sims, Williams, Hayden, Pope, Madden and Condrey. Griner, Williams, Hayden and Madden have started all 14 games. Sims and Condrey have split the start at the other position with Sims starting 13 games and Condrey one.
Chassidy (16.4 ppg), Ashleigh (11.4 ppg) and Yvonne (11.1 ppg) pace Texas in scoring. Chassidy leads three Horns in attempting at least 100 FGs in league play. Chassidy has hit on 78-198 (39.4%). Ashleigh is at 57-171 (33.3%). Yvonne has connected on 58-144 (40.3%). Anne Marie leads the team in FG % at 45.1 (32-71) while Nneka is second at 44.1% (26-59). Four Horns have been the primary 3pt threats for Texas. Chassidy has been the most effective, hitting 41.8% from BTA (33-79). Chelsea has the second best percentage at 34.5%(10-29%). Ashleigh (12-43, 27.9%) and Yvonne (10-44, 22.7%) are the other two 3pt shooters for the Horns. Four guards are the ones that usually get to the FT line for Texas. They are also the best FT shooters for the Horns. Chassidy has hit on 40-45 for 88.9%. Ashleigh is 34-49 for 69.4%. Yvonne has connected on 29-40 (72.5%). Chelsea has made 17-24 (70.8%).
Chassidy and Nneka are tied for the rebounding lead at 5.3 rpg each. Ashleigh is second at 5.1 rpg. Ashley (4.8 rpg), Anne Marie (4.4 rpg) and Cokie (4.0 rpg) are next in line in rebounding. Yvonne leads with 82 assists while Ashleigh has 44. Two Horns are in double figures in blocks:Ashley with 32 and Nneka with 11. Ashleigh and Yvonne are tied with 30 steals each while Chassidy ranks second with 19. Ashley has the third most steals with 16. Chelsea played Saturday for the first time since an ankle injury caused her to miss five games. Hopefully, she will be able to play today. It remains to be seen if Tiffany is able to play as she has had to sit out due to illness since she last played on Feb. first.Chassidy, Ashleigh, Yvonne, Anne Marie and Nneka have started the last few games for Texas. Ashleigh and Yvonne have started all fourteen games. Eight players are averaging at least 18 minutes per game. Chassidy (35.7 mpg), Ashleigh (33.1 mpg) and Yvonne (33.5 mpg) are averaging over 30. All three have played all 40 minutes in a game at some point.
Projected starting lineups are based on the last game. Texas has started the same lineup for the past few games and Baylor has been consistent during league play about going with the same lineup 13 of 14 games.
[pre]
Texas Baylor
Anne Marie (6-3) Griner (6-8)
Nneka (6-1) Williams (6-1)
Chassidy (5-10) Madden (6-0)
Ashleigh (5-8) Hayden (6-0)
Yvonne (5-7) Sims (5-9) [/pre]
As for all teams facing Baylor, the big question mark is how to slow down Griner. Texas will look to force Griner away from the basket and make her shoot jump shots rather letting her get position inside of five feet from the goal. The other thing will be to see if they can guard her without fouling. Griner has been excellent this season from the FT line, making 82% from there. Sims is the other prong of the Baylor’s offense. Her speed, quickness, passing and ability to penetrate, dump the ball off to an open shooter or finish with contact makes it difficult to take anything away. Yvonne will start out on her with Ashleigh and Chelsea rotating to play her as well. In the last game, the Texas D focused on Griner, allowing Williams to slash to the basket for uncontested layups a number of times. The defender on Williams will need to stay on her instead of dropping off to triple Griner. Those two scored 53 of Baylor’s 77 pts, hitting 22 of 31 (71%), mostly inside.
Baylor will be looking to shut down Chassidy. She scored 20 pts while Ashley added 12. Our other guards will need to provide additional scoring to keep the Lady Bears from focusing exclusively on Chassidy. Our posts will need to stay on the court. Both Ashley and Nneka were in foul trouble all game, especially Ashley.
Stats are conference stats only.
TEAM STATISTICS UT BU
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SCORING................. 877 1038
Points per game....... 62.6 74.1
Scoring margin........ -5.1 +24.9
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 328-858 400-843
Field goal pct........ .382 .474
FG made per game...... 23.4 28.6
FG att per game....... 61.3 60.2
2POINT FG-ATT........... 262-657 355-695
2-point FG pct........ .399 .511
2-pt FG made per game. 18.7 25.4
2-pt FG att per game.. 46.9 49.6
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 66-201 45-148
3-point FG pct........ .328 .304
3-pt FG made per game. 4.7 3.2
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.4 10.6
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 155-230 193-268
Free throw pct........ .674 .720
F-Throws made per game 11.1 13.8
F-Throws att per game. 16.4 19.1
REBOUNDS................ 538 631
Rebounds per game..... 38.4 45.1
Rebounding margin..... -1.2 +12.5
ASSISTS.................. 172 253
Assists per game...... 12.3 18.1TURNOVERS................ 222 182
Turnovers per game.... 15.9 13.0
Turnover margin....... -0.5+1.6
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.8 1.4
STEALS.................. 119 110
Steals per game....... 8.5 7.9
BLOCKS.................. 73 113
Blocks per game....... 5.2 8.1
ATTENDANCE.............. 28289 65459
Home games-Avg/Game... 7-4041 7-9351
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st aver 2nd aver OT1 aver OT2 aver Total aver
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Texas.................... 400 28.6 477 34.1 - - - - 877 62.6
Baylor................... 512 36.6 526 37.6 - - - - 1038 74.1
Baylor has a number seed in the NCAA locked up. Texas still has a chance to get in. A win would really help them. Baylor wants to go finish up with an undefeated season and an NCAA championship. They are capable of reaching both goals. Texas has trouble on the road. They shoot just 35.5% from the field and 29.7% from BTA on the road compared to 40.5% (FGs) and 36.0% (3s) at home. They actually shoot more FTs and make a higher percentage of them on the road. Getting to the FT line for our guards, our best FT shooters, is critical. Baylor is outscoring all Big 12 teams by about 100 points more than the second highest scoring team (OU)-1038 to 941. Their scoring margin of 24.9 is incredible. A&M has the second highest scoring margin in the league at 8.6. Texas has a tough row to hoe to win this game. It’s unlikely but that’s why they play the game. One thing the Horns can’t afford is a scoring drought like the five minutes in the first half of the first game that allow Baylor to go from a 4-4 tie to 4-23 lead. Texas had four TOs; nine missed FG attempts and two missed FTs in that stretch. One thing Texas will have going for them, they know that they have their backs to the wall as far as the NCAAs is concerned. 8 wins is the minimum to get any consideration. Nine would be even better. They have four games left, counting this one.
Gametime is 6:30 PM CST. The game will be on FSNSW and can be seen online at baylorbears.com/allaccess. KVET 1300 AM will carry the game on the radio with the pregame set for 6:30 PM.
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Baylor has three players averaging in double figures: Brittney Griner (#42, 6-8 Jr. P) is averaging 23.6 ppg; Odyssey Sims (#00, 5-9 Soph. G) is at 12.0 ppg and Destiny Williams (#10, 6-1 Jr. RS Jr. F/P) is at 10.5 ppg. Kimetria Hayden (#1, 6-0 Jr. G) with 43-105 FGs made/attempted (41.0%) joins those three leading scorers as the four Lady Bears that have taken at least 100 FG attempts in conference. Griner is at 128-222 (57.7%); Sims has 62-137 (45.3%) while Williams has numbers of 64-130 (49.2%). Brooklyn Pope has the second best shooting percentage among players averaging at least 10 mpg at 52.6% (30-57). Four players are the main 3pt threats for Baylor with Sims the primary shooter (20-56, 35.7%). Hayden (8-30, 26.7%) and Jordan Madden (#3, 6-0 Jr. G; 8-37, 21.6%) are the two others that have taken at least 30 3s. Terran Condrey (#20, 5-7, Sr. G) has the best percentage at 60.0% (6-10). As expected, Griner is the far and away the Lady Bear that gets to the FT line. She has taken 49 more FTs than the next closest player. She is doing an excellent job of capitalizing on her chances there, hitting 82.0% of her FTs (73-89). Hayden is second in FTs made and attempted at 30-40 (75.0%). Three other Lady Bears hit at least 80% from the FT line: Sims (24-29, 82.8%), Williams (19-23, 82.6%) and Shanay Washington (#4, 6-1 RS Soph. G; 8-10, 80.0%).
Williams is the leading rebounder at 10.7 rpg while Griner adds 9.0 rpg and Pope 5.3 rpg. Hayden is the leading distributor with 67 assists while Sims (48 assists) and Madden (40 assists) rank second and third. Griner is the top post with 27 assists. She is also the top shot blocker with 79. Williams is the only other Lady Bear with double figure blocks with 12. Five players have at least 10 steals, led by Sims with 36 and Hayden with 21.
Six players have played in all 12 conference games. Three have played in 12. Two have gotten into 11 and one into 9. Seven are averaging at least 12 mpg: Griner, Sims, Williams, Hayden, Pope, Madden and Condrey. Griner, Williams, Hayden and Madden have started all 14 games. Sims and Condrey have split the start at the other position with Sims starting 13 games and Condrey one.
Chassidy (16.4 ppg), Ashleigh (11.4 ppg) and Yvonne (11.1 ppg) pace Texas in scoring. Chassidy leads three Horns in attempting at least 100 FGs in league play. Chassidy has hit on 78-198 (39.4%). Ashleigh is at 57-171 (33.3%). Yvonne has connected on 58-144 (40.3%). Anne Marie leads the team in FG % at 45.1 (32-71) while Nneka is second at 44.1% (26-59). Four Horns have been the primary 3pt threats for Texas. Chassidy has been the most effective, hitting 41.8% from BTA (33-79). Chelsea has the second best percentage at 34.5%(10-29%). Ashleigh (12-43, 27.9%) and Yvonne (10-44, 22.7%) are the other two 3pt shooters for the Horns. Four guards are the ones that usually get to the FT line for Texas. They are also the best FT shooters for the Horns. Chassidy has hit on 40-45 for 88.9%. Ashleigh is 34-49 for 69.4%. Yvonne has connected on 29-40 (72.5%). Chelsea has made 17-24 (70.8%).
Chassidy and Nneka are tied for the rebounding lead at 5.3 rpg each. Ashleigh is second at 5.1 rpg. Ashley (4.8 rpg), Anne Marie (4.4 rpg) and Cokie (4.0 rpg) are next in line in rebounding. Yvonne leads with 82 assists while Ashleigh has 44. Two Horns are in double figures in blocks:Ashley with 32 and Nneka with 11. Ashleigh and Yvonne are tied with 30 steals each while Chassidy ranks second with 19. Ashley has the third most steals with 16. Chelsea played Saturday for the first time since an ankle injury caused her to miss five games. Hopefully, she will be able to play today. It remains to be seen if Tiffany is able to play as she has had to sit out due to illness since she last played on Feb. first.Chassidy, Ashleigh, Yvonne, Anne Marie and Nneka have started the last few games for Texas. Ashleigh and Yvonne have started all fourteen games. Eight players are averaging at least 18 minutes per game. Chassidy (35.7 mpg), Ashleigh (33.1 mpg) and Yvonne (33.5 mpg) are averaging over 30. All three have played all 40 minutes in a game at some point.
Projected starting lineups are based on the last game. Texas has started the same lineup for the past few games and Baylor has been consistent during league play about going with the same lineup 13 of 14 games.
[pre]
Texas Baylor
Anne Marie (6-3) Griner (6-8)
Nneka (6-1) Williams (6-1)
Chassidy (5-10) Madden (6-0)
Ashleigh (5-8) Hayden (6-0)
Yvonne (5-7) Sims (5-9) [/pre]
As for all teams facing Baylor, the big question mark is how to slow down Griner. Texas will look to force Griner away from the basket and make her shoot jump shots rather letting her get position inside of five feet from the goal. The other thing will be to see if they can guard her without fouling. Griner has been excellent this season from the FT line, making 82% from there. Sims is the other prong of the Baylor’s offense. Her speed, quickness, passing and ability to penetrate, dump the ball off to an open shooter or finish with contact makes it difficult to take anything away. Yvonne will start out on her with Ashleigh and Chelsea rotating to play her as well. In the last game, the Texas D focused on Griner, allowing Williams to slash to the basket for uncontested layups a number of times. The defender on Williams will need to stay on her instead of dropping off to triple Griner. Those two scored 53 of Baylor’s 77 pts, hitting 22 of 31 (71%), mostly inside.
Baylor will be looking to shut down Chassidy. She scored 20 pts while Ashley added 12. Our other guards will need to provide additional scoring to keep the Lady Bears from focusing exclusively on Chassidy. Our posts will need to stay on the court. Both Ashley and Nneka were in foul trouble all game, especially Ashley.
Stats are conference stats only.
TEAM STATISTICS UT BU
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SCORING................. 877 1038
Points per game....... 62.6 74.1
Scoring margin........ -5.1 +24.9
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 328-858 400-843
Field goal pct........ .382 .474
FG made per game...... 23.4 28.6
FG att per game....... 61.3 60.2
2POINT FG-ATT........... 262-657 355-695
2-point FG pct........ .399 .511
2-pt FG made per game. 18.7 25.4
2-pt FG att per game.. 46.9 49.6
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 66-201 45-148
3-point FG pct........ .328 .304
3-pt FG made per game. 4.7 3.2
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.4 10.6
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 155-230 193-268
Free throw pct........ .674 .720
F-Throws made per game 11.1 13.8
F-Throws att per game. 16.4 19.1
REBOUNDS................ 538 631
Rebounds per game..... 38.4 45.1
Rebounding margin..... -1.2 +12.5
ASSISTS.................. 172 253
Assists per game...... 12.3 18.1TURNOVERS................ 222 182
Turnovers per game.... 15.9 13.0
Turnover margin....... -0.5+1.6
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.8 1.4
STEALS.................. 119 110
Steals per game....... 8.5 7.9
BLOCKS.................. 73 113
Blocks per game....... 5.2 8.1
ATTENDANCE.............. 28289 65459
Home games-Avg/Game... 7-4041 7-9351
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st aver 2nd aver OT1 aver OT2 aver Total aver
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Texas.................... 400 28.6 477 34.1 - - - - 877 62.6
Baylor................... 512 36.6 526 37.6 - - - - 1038 74.1
Baylor has a number seed in the NCAA locked up. Texas still has a chance to get in. A win would really help them. Baylor wants to go finish up with an undefeated season and an NCAA championship. They are capable of reaching both goals. Texas has trouble on the road. They shoot just 35.5% from the field and 29.7% from BTA on the road compared to 40.5% (FGs) and 36.0% (3s) at home. They actually shoot more FTs and make a higher percentage of them on the road. Getting to the FT line for our guards, our best FT shooters, is critical. Baylor is outscoring all Big 12 teams by about 100 points more than the second highest scoring team (OU)-1038 to 941. Their scoring margin of 24.9 is incredible. A&M has the second highest scoring margin in the league at 8.6. Texas has a tough row to hoe to win this game. It’s unlikely but that’s why they play the game. One thing the Horns can’t afford is a scoring drought like the five minutes in the first half of the first game that allow Baylor to go from a 4-4 tie to 4-23 lead. Texas had four TOs; nine missed FG attempts and two missed FTs in that stretch. One thing Texas will have going for them, they know that they have their backs to the wall as far as the NCAAs is concerned. 8 wins is the minimum to get any consideration. Nine would be even better. They have four games left, counting this one.
Gametime is 6:30 PM CST. The game will be on FSNSW and can be seen online at baylorbears.com/allaccess. KVET 1300 AM will carry the game on the radio with the pregame set for 6:30 PM.
texassports.com game preview .
baylorbears.com game preview .
