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No. 12 Baylor Returns Home to Host UCF

January 20, 2024
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WACO, Texas – The No. 12 Baylor women’s basketball team returns to action at Foster Pavilion when it hosts UCF and No. 7 Kansas State on Saturday and Monday, respectively. 

Saturday’s contest against the Knights is set for 2 p.m. and is available for streaming via Big 12 Now on ESPN+. A live radio broadcast will be available online and locally on 104.9 FM, and live in-game updates will be provided via Twitter and live stats. 

Monday’s top-15 matchup with Kansas State is set to air nationally on FS1 and fans can tune into ESPN Central Texas (1660 AM/92.3 FM) for a live radio broadcast. Live in-game updates will also be provided via Twitter and live stats. 

STARTING FIVE

Baylor is a perfect 9-0 at home this season with two wins in the brand-new Foster Pavilion after picking up wins over then-No. 23 TCU (Jan. 3) and Houston (Jan. 6).

Baylor’s two opponents - UCF and Kansas State - in the three-day stretch will be its only meetings against the two programs during the regular season this year.

Sarah Andrews has 208 career 3-pointers and needs 51 more to break Odyssey Sim’s record of 258. The senior guard has hit at least two from range in 14 of 16 games this year.

Baylor is one of four teams in the country, joining Kansas, Mississippi State and Louisville, with five 1,000-point scorers on its roster. Yaya Felder is the latest member of the 1,000-point club after recording the final point in BU’s 87-58 win over Houston on Jan. 6.

Monday’s nationally televised game on FS1 marks the fourth of the season for the Bears and first of three-straight contests set to be aired on the big screen. Baylor’s game at Oklahoma State (Jan. 28) and home contest against Texas (Feb. 1) will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks.

SCOUTING THE SERIES WITH UCF

Saturday’s meeting between the Bears and the Knights will be just the fourth all-time. Baylor holds a perfect 3-0 record in the all-time series with UCF and Saturday’s game will be the first meeting in Waco. The last time the Bears and the Knights faced each other was in the opening round game of the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on Nov. 27, 2008. Baylor came out on top, 79-67, and went on to beat Villanova at the event.

 

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No. 12 Baylor Returns Home to Host UCF

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12:12p, 1/21/24
I sat right above the bench. Madison was not there.
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12:43p, 1/21/24
Kyla wasn't dressed out either but was on the bench, I think. Maybe giving more context to her overall absence on the court.
Madison still reposted about the win on her IG so hopefully nothing major. Her size has showed up big in spurts already this season. Hope to see her battle against KState!
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In reply to BuinmyBlood • 2:43p, 1/21/24
BuinmyBlood said:
I know they're trying hard but something about this team is just off right now. Don't know what it is, but this team doesn't even resemble the 1 from 2 weeks ago. Disappointing...
Sarah isn't hitting even a good percentage of what she usually hits. She makes two or three more out of her 8 missed threes and Bella hits 1 that is 9-12 more points and the game would have been a comfortable win. Hope whatever is causing the shooting slump gets resolved quickly....like on Monday night. And most of these shots were not even halfway contested. Just misses from open looks.

Also have to wonder if Jada is trying to play too fast and whether she needs to take some shots in the paint versus just dribbling in and then looking out to pass. If I was an opposing coach I think until I saw otherwise I would tell my team to ignore any penetration she appears to be taking and stay on your outside shooters because she is not going to shoot. And as CNC said on her postgame, there are too many 2-3 foot pass attempts inside.

The shooting slump probably causes pressing in other areas which is not good. Get the shooting on open looks back to even close to a normal percentage and I would think that would cure quite a bit of the difference between what we have seen the last few games and what we saw earlier. And neither of these things is because of what the opposing defense is doing right now. They are really unforced.
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In reply to blackie • 10:33a, 1/22/24
I heard that Sarah is battling some type of lower body injury . Not sure if that is true or not.
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In reply to Bear3 • 7:25p, 1/22/24
It makes sense. She has not played like herself for the past couple games.
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In reply to historian • 9:42p, 1/22/24
historian said:
It makes sense. She has not played like herself for the past couple games.
Her shots are open and not even close, sometimes barely hitting the rim, if not missing it completely.....and the disease is catching.
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In reply to blackie • 7:13p, 1/23/24
And she usually makes them at a high percentage.
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8:25a, 1/24/24
UCF follows up their one-possession loss to us by losing to a TCU team down four starters and resorting to walk-ons on its roster.
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In reply to BaylorTaxman • 10:02a, 1/24/24
BaylorTaxman said:
UCF follows up their one-possession loss to us by losing to a TCU team down four starters and resorting to walk-ons on its roster.
I hope this isn't a lame attempt to deduce something out of trying to introduce a transitive property in sports. If the transitive property meant anything, the Dallas Cowboys would have won the Super Bowl multiple times since they last did and this year's Bears would likely have been in a bowl game.

You don't think emotion had anything to do with either of the games you reference? UCF wanting to give their coach a win against her old team and TCU playing all-out emotional in this game? You might remember how TCU football played against us the week Patterson was fired. UCF never had a chance.



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11:16a, 1/24/24
UCF came into Waco winless in conference and we barely won. Otherwise, we would now be in a four-game skid. UCF went on to lose the next game to a TCU team so out-manned that they had to forfeit two games.

If you want to view it as emotion and coincidence, knock yourself out. I think transitive property for the NFL is a "slightly" different animal than NCAA WBB, and that the UCF game was one more piece of evidence that something has been really off with the team since mid-way through the second period of the Kansas game.

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In reply to BaylorTaxman • 12:09p, 1/24/24
I had the same thoughts when I saw TCU beat UCF. I don't see how TCU will win more than a few more games.
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In reply to BaylorTaxman • 1:29p, 1/24/24
BaylorTaxman said:
UCF came into Waco winless in conference and we barely won. Otherwise, we would now be in a four-game skid. UCF went on to lose the next game to a TCU team so out-manned that they had to forfeit two games.

If you want to view it as emotion and coincidence, knock yourself out. I think transitive property for the NFL is a "slightly" different animal than NCAA WBB, and that the UCF game was one more piece of evidence that something has been really off with the team since mid-way through the second period of the Kansas game.

Transitive doesn't work here either. Do you think TCU could stay anywhere close to KSU?

We know what is off. They can't hit the ocean with a shot. It is not that hard to figure out.
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3:05p, 1/24/24
UCF is at the bottom of conference standings for a reason: they are winless in conference play.

0-7 is difficult to recover from.

It's the same for the Pokes in MBB.
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