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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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Branch155
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Need a bucket in the worst way
Media Bear
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That's it for Smith.

Fouled out.

Just one big left for us -- Kalani Brown.
JXL
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That block would have been a foul if we had done it
Brian Ethridge
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Brown bucket

78-77

ND misses twice

2:00 to go

Juicy misses as the shot clock expires after Smith is blocked

Arike loses it out of bounds

1:27 to go

Smith misses a baseline jumper

1:00 to go

ND misses a 3, 2 offensive boards and Smith fouls out

47.4 to go

Queen Egbo, your time to shine
Brian Ethridge
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Staff
Moon in for Smith, not Egbo
Branch155
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Whose gonna step up and win this for us?
Media Bear
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ND is giving us chances to put it away.

78 all.
Mitch Blood Green
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Branch155 said:

Whose gonna step up and win this for us?


Someone will.
Brian Ethridge
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Staff
78-78 after ND makes 1 fo 2

Chloe bucket

80-78

Timeout ND
Media Bear
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Jackson for 2! 80-78

28 seconds left.
Media Bear
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We need ND to miss some more shots, then we need to rebound and get fouled.
Branch155
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Please guard the 3. I'm begging you. Although I don't want this to go to OT. We are missing too many parts
JXL
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Chloe!
Media Bear
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We do NOT need overtime with our fouls situation.
Mitch Blood Green
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I'm reading on an ap, not watching. Must be crazy watching.
Brian Ethridge
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Staff
28.6 seconds to go

26 on the shot clock

ND in the bonus

Moon on Arike

Brown called for a foul on the drive

16.1 to go

Makes 1st, 80-79
Makes 2nd, 80-80

16.1 to go and BU takes timeout to advance the ball
Branch155
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I was afraid the refs would insert themselves
Jack Bauer
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CHLOE!!!
JXL
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Lol if they are going to call that a foul we should have shot 271 free throws this game.
Branch155
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Good shot for us, and with too little time for them to score. We got this!
Brian Ethridge
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Chloe running clock

Layup with 3.9 to go

82-80
Yeek
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I'm about to burst into tears
Branch155
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I love it. But I don't like 3.9 seconds left
Mitch Blood Green
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Brian Ethridge said:

Chloe running clock

Layup with 3.9 to go

82-80


Thank you. That's a lot of time.
Mitch Blood Green
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Defense.
Brian Ethridge
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Kim timeout to make adjustments
Jack Bauer
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Weak call
Brian Ethridge
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Staff
Here we go...

Moon called for a foul

Missed FT
Jack Bauer
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brian Ethridge
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.3

There is no time to shoot it
Mitch Blood Green
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Am I reading championship?
Branch155
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Why did we not throw it all the way down the court?
EasyE
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Branch155 said:

Good shot for us, and with too little time for them to score. We got this!


I guess you didn't watch the Virginia- Auburn game.
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Miraculous
Gritty
Inspired

Wow
 
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