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Championship Game: Baylor vs. Notre Dame Preview & Game Thread

April 6, 2019
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The reason everyone plays the game arrives Sunday April 7 in Amalie Arena. The Baylor Lady Bears will face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in a battle between two of the top programs over the past 15 years. Both have two national titles during that time and this will be a game of strength on strength in the paint and perimeter. Baylor is 36-1 and Notre Dame is 35-3 on the season with Baylor having a 28 game winning streak and Notre Dame with a 14 game winning streak on the line.

How To Watch:

Sunday, April 7, 5 p.m.

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Keys To The Game:

Make Arike Ogunbowale play both ends

Protect the ball

Keep Ogunbowale in front of the defender

Juicy and Chloe need to hit from outside to open up the lane

Make Mabry move off the 3pt line where over 57% of her shots are taken and over 40% made

TEAM PTS REB AST STL BLK FG% 3PT% FT% OPP FG%
BAYLOR 81.7 47.4 22.4 7.6 7.2 50.4 37.5 68.2 31.6
NOTRE DAME 88.8 44.3 20.7 8.8 5.1 51.2 36.2 74.4 37.2

Fun Facts:

The last time Baylor and Notre Dame met in the NCAA Championship was 2012.

5 of 7 ESPN Experts pick Notre Dame due to experience.

Little Ms. Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey. Along came Mulkey that asked, “Why so sulky? We’re just better today.”

COMMON OPPONENT BAYLOR NOTRE DAME
CONNECTICUTT 68-57 (W) 71-89 (L), 81-76 (W)*
STANFORD 63-68 (L) 84-68 (W)*
IOWA 85-53 (W)* 105-71 (W)

*NCAA Tournament

 

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Championship Game: Baylor vs. Notre Dame Preview & Game Thread

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5:52p, 4/7/19
Let's keep this up, we want no doubt going into the fourth quarter.
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5:55p, 4/7/19
And they keep fouling Brown and Cox.

Ahh! Can't miss two FTs like that in a game like this ..
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5:56p, 4/7/19
Not fan of that last shot ...
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5:57p, 4/7/19
Would love to play this game 5 on 5 and not 5 on 8 again.
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5:59p, 4/7/19
KB missing a lot of FTs
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6:00p, 4/7/19
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Arike hits a jumper

33-22

Juicy misses a 3

Arike gets away with a push off and hits a 3 later in the possession

33-25

Chloe jumper

35-25

3:30 to go

Arike misses

Cox is fouled by Turner

Makes 1st, 36-25
Smith in for Moon
Makes 2nd, 37-25

Turner misses

Cox misses a jumper and Smith puts it back in

39-25

Cox blocks Young, loose ball and ND gets it and Smith fouls her

Makes 1st, 39-26
Makes 2nd, 39-27

Brown fouled by Turner (2nd)

Misses 1st
Misses 2nd

2:10 to go

Chloe called for a foul, Kim says it was a pushoff

ND misses

Chloe misses, Arike gets board and goes down hard, called on Cox (2nd)

Cox to the bench for Smith

Announcers say it was on Brown

Changed to Brown

Cox still in the game

Arike airball, loose ball, tied up, ND ball,

Arike gets the call on Juicy as she jumps into her, Juicy should have put her hands up

Makes 1st, 39-28
Makes 2nd, 39-29

Juicy to Brown

41-29

ND misses and the Lady Bears are running but tipped out of bounds

Kalani fouled on the in bounds pass, to the line

Misses 1st
Misses 2nd, four straight misses

ND layup

41-31

Chloe misses, Kalani cleans it up

43-31

HALF
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6:01p, 4/7/19
Outstanding!!!
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6:01p, 4/7/19
Brown with ALL the hustle to get that last bucket and put the Lady Bears back up by 12 at the half.
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6:02p, 4/7/19
I don't think the Irish have an answer for our inside game.

And you can't say enough about our defense so far.
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6:03p, 4/7/19

ND will have to appeal to the Vatican to get back in this game.
Baptists beat the Catholics!!!
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
Malcolm Forbes
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6:04p, 4/7/19
They cant catch up on us with 3 pointers like Oregon.
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6:04p, 4/7/19
Gimme that old time religion, Lady Bears!!!

("Makes the Baptists beat the Catholics."
"Makes the Baptists beat the Catholics."
"Makes the Baptists beat the Catholics."
It's good enough for me.")
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
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6:04p, 4/7/19
This is a coaching clinic. The girls are incredibly focused. Not straying at all from the game plan. KM is at her best tonight on the biggest stage, very impressive.
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6:04p, 4/7/19
Has Notre Dame EVER been held to 25% shooting in the first half of a game????

Meanwhile, our girls are shooting lights out at 61%.

Gotta hold those stats for 2 more quarters.
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6:05p, 4/7/19
27% shooting by ND in first half

DiDi with 2 fouls
1 for everyone else
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In reply to MommaBear • 6:06p, 4/7/19
MommaBear said:
Has Notre Dame EVER been held to 25% shooting in the first half of a game????

Meanwhile, our girls are shooting lights out at 61%.

Gotta hold those stats for 2 more quarters.
It's because as we were taught in Sunday school, Baptists are going to heaven and Catholics aren't!!!!
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
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6:06p, 4/7/19
We survived half of the second quarter with Didi on the bench - she needs to have a solid third quarter and not foul! We need her on the court - we lost some momentum with the three bigs in - happy to have a double digit lead at halftime, if you had offered it to me before the game started I would have taken in all day long - 20 minutes to go - don't get complacent and just stay with what you are doing!!!
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 6:08p, 4/7/19
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Jack Bauer said:
They cant catch up on us with 3 pointers like Oregon.
Yes, ND can.
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Need to draw a charge on Arike if Dee Canter will call it.
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6:10p, 4/7/19
I'm very pleased with the Baylor Lady Bears leading by 12 points in the 1st half. 30-8 huge advantage for the Lady Bears over the Irish with points in the paint. Even more impressive is the 14-2 fast break points lead by Baylor. Fantastic 1st half for Chloe Jackson with 14 points. 20 minutes down, 20 minutes to go. GO LADY BEARS!
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6:10p, 4/7/19
We are better than they are. We do need to take care of business though. Like making free throws and stopping the offensive rebounds
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 6:10p, 4/7/19
Jack Bauer said:
They cant catch up on us with 3 pointers like Oregon.
Yes, they can. They did it to Stanford. We've got to outscore them in the third, and then I think we'll be okay.
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Gotta hit FTs in the second half
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6:11p, 4/7/19
I'd like to see fewer offensive rebounds for them this half. Make it hard to catch up.
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In reply to Brian Ethridge • 6:11p, 4/7/19
Brian Ethridge said:
Need to draw a charge on Arike if Dee Canter will call it.
She won't - especially not to the benefit of Baylor - would rather Didi not foul than try to get a call out of her.
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 6:11p, 4/7/19
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I'd like to see fewer offensive rebounds for them this half. Make it hard to catch up.
I'm predicting a Mulkey challenge to our bigs! They need to listen to her. Without them its a 25 point game.
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If the offensive boards were not there and the FTs were made it would be a 20+ point lead.
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In reply to bawitdaball • 6:14p, 4/7/19
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bawitdaball said:
Brian Ethridge said:
Need to draw a charge on Arike if Dee Canter will call it.
She won't - especially not to the benefit of Baylor - would rather Didi not foul than try to get a call out of her.
You are correct, but Arike is pushing off Didi and Juicy on every drive and step back.
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6:15p, 4/7/19
We would be uncatchable if Kalani had not missed all 5 FT's. In a game like this you give ND a fighting Irish chance by making unforced errors and it could be the difference. Must must must slow this game down and only run off of D rebounds and only if it is there. ND thrives on as many possessions as they can get and when we control the tempo they cannot get it going.
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In reply to Brian Ethridge • 6:16p, 4/7/19
Brian Ethridge said:
If the offensive boards were not there and the FTs were made it would be a 20+ point lead.
very uncharacteristic of Kalani to miss 5 in a row. Make them and this game is almost out of reach
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6:17p, 4/7/19
If the refs swallow their whistles we will be fine.
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I hope Chloe and Jiucy go off
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6:17p, 4/7/19
We arent safe until there is a 10 point lead with 30 seconds left... ND is the comeback king
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6:18p, 4/7/19
Cox leads second half off with quick bucket. 45-31

Mabrey answers 45-33.
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6:19p, 4/7/19
Still getting great looks inside ...
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