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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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Brian Ethridge
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Juicy misses a 3

Arike jumper

17-12

Brown bucket

19-12

ND misses a 3

3 second call, bogus

ND misses and Juicy takes the board to Chloe for a layup

21-12

ND jumper

21-14
Media Bear
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Man were getting some open looks inside ...

If ND doesn't tighten up there, they're just making it easy for us.
Mitch Blood Green
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Yeah!
Jack Bauer
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Fantastic quarter!!!!
Jacques Strap
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Buzzer beater!!!
Brian Ethridge
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Cox gets hit and they call it a block, Kalani fouled on the loose ball

Didi in the lane, buckeet

23-14

Offensive foul on ND as the C rubs out Juicy on a moving screen

Richards misses inside

ND holding for the last shot of the quarter

BAYLOR STEAL AND CHLOE LAYUP AT THE BUZZER

25-14

END 1ST
Media Bear
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TOUCHDOWN.

Jackson on the breakaway run to end the quarter.
Meladee
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I'll take +11 per quarter, thanks.
geewago
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Jack Bauer said:

Fantastic quarter!!!!
Would you settle for a couple more just like it ??
MommaBear
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Baylor has missed 6 shots.

Notre Dame has only MADE 5!!!!!

Nice first quarter. 25-14

Chloe is 5 for 5 and leads the Lady Bears with 10 points. Way to go Chloe!
Jacques Strap
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Media Bear said:

Man were getting some open looks inside ...

If ND doesn't tighten up there, they're just making it easy for us.


I like easy. They are not known for defense so I hope it's too late for them tighten up.
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ND is a team
Of runs

We have to keep up that defense! And rebound better on the defensive side
Media Bear
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Brian Ethridge said:

Cox gets hit and they call it a block, Kalani fouled on the loose ball

Didi in the lane, buckeet

23-14

Offensive foul on ND as the C rubs out Juicy on a moving screen

Richards misses inside

ND holding for the last shot of the quarter

BAYLOR STEAL AND CHLOE LAYUP AT THE BUZZER

25-14

END 1ST
On pace to be 100-56.

Not that it will end that way (we can always hope), but that is a very productive first quarter by the Lady Bears.
Brian Ethridge
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Media Bear said:

Brian Ethridge said:

Cox gets hit and they call it a block, Kalani fouled on the loose ball

Didi in the lane, buckeet

23-14

Offensive foul on ND as the C rubs out Juicy on a moving screen

Richards misses inside

ND holding for the last shot of the quarter

BAYLOR STEAL AND CHLOE LAYUP AT THE BUZZER

25-14

END 1ST
On pace to be 100-56.

Not that it will end that way (we can always hope), but that is a very productive first quarter by the Lady Bears.
On pace guy...
Media Bear
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Wow. Cox and Brown just 4 points right now. Rest of the team stepping up with 21.
Jacques Strap
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Kim looks great tonight.
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gobears20 said:

ND is a team
Of runs

We have to keep up that defense! And rebound better on the defensive side
Stanford was up by nine on them in the second half, and ND came back and blew them out. They won't give up, so we can't let up.
Jack Bauer
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Weak foul call.
Media Bear
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Moving screen ... no call.

Well, actually there was a call. On us.

Mmkay ...
4th and Inches
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Irish player rocked into DiDi and the foul is on DiDi?!
Media Bear
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Muffet with that: "I've never seen the likes" expression.
Jack Bauer
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Boom!!!!
Brian Ethridge
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ND ball to start the 2nd

ND turnover, loose ball, jump ball to BU

Juicy short on a FT jumper

Didi called for a foul on a moving screen... BS, Moon in

Arike gets a jumper

25-16

Moon bad entry pass

ND misses

Brown banker

27-16

ND misses, offensive board, stloen

Chloe misses, Brown board and bucket

29-16

Juicy blocks Arike

Cox stripped, off ND
Jacques Strap
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Fantastic!!!!
Media Bear
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Lady Bears are an offensive machine at the moment ...
Jack Bauer
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If ND cant make a run before half, they are going to panic.
Media Bear
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Irish are a turnover machine ...
Media Bear
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Ahh ... left Mabrey too open.
Media Bear
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Actually the best possession ND has had in awhile
Media Bear
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I think Mabrey she needs to sit for awhile with those 2 fouls ..
Jack Bauer
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ND has 12 offensive rebounds. That's the only thing keeping this from a blowout
Brian Ethridge
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BROWN AND1

31-16

Misses FT

ND travel

Chloe jumper

33-16

Muffet just raises her hands

ND jumper

33-18

3 second call on Kalani, another Dee call

ND FT jumper

33-20

Moon with a bad pass, gets it back, ND fouls Chloe, 2nd on Mabry

Brown throws it high to Chloe out of bounds

ND misses, Moon gets the board, hit in the back and the baseline official says she was out of bounds...

TV Timeout
StatMan
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The guards are playing very well for Baylor on offense so far, as the Lady Bears maintain a double digit lead with 4:50 to play until halftime.
Pecos 45
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Will Baylor win?
Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?
Is a bear Catholic?
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
Malcolm Forbes
Media Bear
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Cox and Brown work so well together ...
 
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