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Associated Press
WACO, Texas — Queen Egbo scored 19 points and the No. 7 Baylor Girl Bears prolonged the nation’s longest fresh lag of consecutive widespread-season females’s convention titles to 11, clinching a tie for the Immense 12 crown by beating Kansas Articulate 85-49 on Saturday.
NaLyssa Smith added 16 points and Moon Ursin scored all 15 of her points in the first half and had a profession-high eight assists as the Girl Bears (19-2, 14-1) topped the Wildcats for the 36th straight time.
Baylor, which received essentially the most modern NCAA event title in 2019, has a 184-9 widespread-season league sage one day of the title lag, including four 18-0 seasons. The Girl Bears furthermore fill received eight convention tournaments in that stretch.
No. 18 West Virginia is the handiest crew that might buy Baylor, and it would require the Girl Bears shedding their closing three video games. Baylor has 12 Immense 12 widespread-season titles overall.
Rachel Ranke hit three 3-pointers for 9 points for Kansas Articulate (7-15, 2-13). She reached 1,000 points exactly for her profession and grew to change into the sixth participant in college history and not utilizing a longer no longer up to that many points to bolt and not utilizing a longer no longer up to 300 rebounds and 200 3s.
Ursin, a profession backup before turning into a corpulent-time starter this season, completed her solid first half by tipping an offensive rebound to herself and beating the buzzer with a jumper for a 40-19 Baylor lead at halftime.
A jiffy later, Ursin, DiDi Richards and Stanford graduate transfer DiJonai Carrington, who made her first originate of the season, had been taking flower bouquets from coach Kim Mulkey in a senior day halftime in discovering collectively.
The Girl Bears chose this game to celebrate quite than their final scheduled home day day out, a COVID-19 makeup game against West Virginia on March 8.
A jumper by Moon started a 20-2 bustle over the first and second quarters that grew to change into a 14-9 lead into a 34-11 advantage, and the Girl Bears progressively pulled away whereas leading by as many as 39 points.
With Baylor leading by 38 with 1 minute, 11 seconds closing, Mulkey sent Ursin, Richards and Carrington encourage into the game. Ursin brought the ball past midcourt, and Baylor called timeout to make a selection them out all once more.
Richards, fourth on the college’s profession list in assists, completed with six assists whereas scoring two points. Carrington had six points.
