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Associated Press
WACO, Texas — NaLyssa Smith, Moon Ursin and No. 9 Baylor are starting to get back in the groove.
Smith scored 21 points, Ursin had a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds and the Lady Bears overwhelmed Oklahoma 84-61 on Saturday night, a week after the end of their national-best 61-game home winning streak when they retuned from a long pause because of COVID-19 protocols.
“Well, I think it’s obvious,” said coach Kim Mulkey, who tested positive after the Christmas break. “You can’t just, at this level, roll a ball out there unless you have a lot of returning players and a lot of depth. Under the circumstances we don’t have that, so we have to have practice time. ... We’ve got days that we’ve got to make up for three weeks that we really weren’t together. Each day matters, each game matters, and there’s been progress.”
The Lady Bears (10-2, 5-1 Big 12) hadn’t played in two weeks before the 75-71 loss to Iowa State last Saturday, and their only full-team practice in that time had been the morning of that game. They rebounded with a 77-58 win at Oklahoma State on Wednesday night, then got back home for their 21st win in their last 22 meetings against Oklahoma.
Madi Williams led Oklahoma (4-7, 1-5) with 29 points and Taylor Robertson made five 3-pointers while
scoring 19 points.
DiDi Richards had a career-high 12 assists — three more than the Sooners had as a team — and five players scored in double figures as Baylor shot 59% (35 of 61). Trinity Oliver had 14 points, freshman Hanna Gusters 11 and Queen Egbo 10.
“Baylor played really, really well. and when they shoot it like that, they’re a problem for anybody in the country,” Sooners coach Sherri Coale said. “We could not match their size and athleticism and aggression on the glass, 40-14 (rebounding) is a huge margin to overcome there.”
Big Picture
Oklahoma: The Sooners got dominated inside as expected, getting outscored 46-16 in the paint. But the Big 12’s top 3-point shooting team struggled from beyond the arc at 22.7% (5 of 22) . They had lost 64-63 in their last game against Iowa State, which was playing its next game after the streak-busting win at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor: The Lady Bears still haven’t lost consecutive home games in 12 years, since then-No. 2 Oklahoma won 56-51 in the Ferrell Center on Jan. 28, 2009, four days before No. 16 Texas won 58-55 there. That was the last time the Sooners won in Waco.
WACO, Texas — NaLyssa Smith, Moon Ursin and No. 9 Baylor are starting to get back in the groove.
Smith scored 21 points, Ursin had a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds and the Lady Bears overwhelmed Oklahoma 84-61 on Saturday night, a week after the end of their national-best 61-game home winning streak when they retuned from a long pause because of COVID-19 protocols.
“Well, I think it’s obvious,” said coach Kim Mulkey, who tested positive after the Christmas break. “You can’t just, at this level, roll a ball out there unless you have a lot of returning players and a lot of depth. Under the circumstances we don’t have that, so we have to have practice time. ... We’ve got days that we’ve got to make up for three weeks that we really weren’t together. Each day matters, each game matters, and there’s been progress.”
The Lady Bears (10-2, 5-1 Big 12) hadn’t played in two weeks before the 75-71 loss to Iowa State last Saturday, and their only full-team practice in that time had been the morning of that game. They rebounded with a 77-58 win at Oklahoma State on Wednesday night, then got back home for their 21st win in their last 22 meetings against Oklahoma.
Madi Williams led Oklahoma (4-7, 1-5) with 29 points and Taylor Robertson made five 3-pointers while
scoring 19 points.
DiDi Richards had a career-high 12 assists — three more than the Sooners had as a team — and five players scored in double figures as Baylor shot 59% (35 of 61). Trinity Oliver had 14 points, freshman Hanna Gusters 11 and Queen Egbo 10.
“Baylor played really, really well. and when they shoot it like that, they’re a problem for anybody in the country,” Sooners coach Sherri Coale said. “We could not match their size and athleticism and aggression on the glass, 40-14 (rebounding) is a huge margin to overcome there.”
Big Picture
Oklahoma: The Sooners got dominated inside as expected, getting outscored 46-16 in the paint. But the Big 12’s top 3-point shooting team struggled from beyond the arc at 22.7% (5 of 22) . They had lost 64-63 in their last game against Iowa State, which was playing its next game after the streak-busting win at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor: The Lady Bears still haven’t lost consecutive home games in 12 years, since then-No. 2 Oklahoma won 56-51 in the Ferrell Center on Jan. 28, 2009, four days before No. 16 Texas won 58-55 there. That was the last time the Sooners won in Waco.
