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Baylor WBB Announces Plans for 2020-21 Schedule

October 26, 2020
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WACO, Texas – In association with the Big 12 Conference’s announcement of the women’s basketball league schedule Monday, the Baylor women’s basketball team released its plans for a 25-game schedule for the 2020-21 season.

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Baylor’s last game was the regular-season finale of the 2019-20 season, March 8 in Ames, Iowa before the COVID-19 pandemic halted both the Big 12 and NCAA postseasons. The Lady Bears will return to action after a delayed start to the 2020-21 season, Nov. 25 when it plays host to Central Arkansas on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Following the holiday, Baylor stays at home to face Northwestern State, Friday, Nov. 27, before a three-game road trip at South Florida (Dec. 1), to Arkansas (Dec. 6) and to West Virginia (Dec.10) for the Big 12 opener.

The league planned ahead for possible cancellations due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, leaving a full week before the 2021 Phillips Big 12 Championships to reschedule games that were postponed. For that reason, the league schedule will start in December rather than January.

The Lady Bears will play host to Texas Tech in their other December Big 12 contest on Monday the 14th. Southern University (Dec. 16) and McNeese State (Dec. 19) will round out the first semester’s games, both at the Ferrell Center, before Baylor returns to action Jan. 2 at TCU to resume Big 12 competition.

Baylor’s marquee non-conference matchup with UConn will take place Jan. 7 at the Ferrell Center and will also cap the seven-game non-conference schedule. The Lady Bears and Huskies’ all-time series is tied at four games apiece with Baylor taking the last two.

On Sunday, Jan. 10, the Lady Bears will resume Big 12 play with the first of 15-straight league games vs. K-State to close the regular season. From there, Baylor heads to Kansas (Jan. 13), then hosts Iowa State (Jan. 20) before heading to Oklahoma State (Jan. 20).

On Saturday Jan. 23, Baylor hosts the first of two back-to-back home Big 12 matchups, welcoming Oklahoma and TCU (Jan. 26). After a January 31 contest at Iowa State, the Lady Bears will host Kansas (Feb. 3). BU will take to the road for back-to-back away contests at K-State (Feb. 7) and at Texas Tech (Feb. 10).

Then, the Lady Bears will play host to their second round of back-to-back home Big 12 contests Feb. 14 and Feb. 17 when they face Texas and West Virginia, respectively. A road trip to Norman, Okla., will have Baylor taking on the Sooners Feb. 20 before hosting Oklahoma State, Feb. 24. After a week off, the Lady Bears will close the regular season with a matchup against Texas in Austin on March 1.

March 11-14 will mark the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. The following week, the NCAA Tournament will kick off the first two rounds at sites to be determined based on seeding, and the NCAA Regionals round will take place March 26-29 before the NCAA Final Four, April 2-4 in San Antonio.

Official plans for spectator capacity at the Ferrell Center for home games this season have not been finalized. Game times and television selections will be announced at later dates. For all Big 12 contests not picked up by national or regional television broadcasts, fans can enjoy all games streamed via the Big 12 Network on ESPN+ for the second year.

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Baylor WBB Announces Plans for 2020-21 Schedule

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4:55p, 10/26/20
Interesting statement - "Official plans for spectator capacity at the Ferrel Center for home games this season have not been finalized".

Some of us have been contacted about tickets and we have made the purchase. They've took the money out of our credit card accounts at least. So we wait and see .
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5:53p, 10/26/20
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7:45p, 10/26/20
Nice to have a schedule finally. The info above is helpful but has some errors. For example, I know the Lady Bears will not play two games on one day (Jan. 20)--especially since one of those is in Stillwater!

A couple other points:

I'm disappointed that the only serious non conference opponent is UConn. That's still a big game & I plan to be there (I was at the game 2 years ago) but it would be better to play an ACC or Big East team & at least one PAC 12 team. I know, they cancelled a lot of stuff. I'd like to think that another game or 2 can be added later but that's unlikely.

I'm surprised that on multiple weeks, the Lady Bears will play 3 games (December 14-19, January 10-16, & February 14-20). That seems grueling. Good thing we have a lot of depth. We will need it.
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8:02p, 10/26/20
Sicem365's schedule page has not yet been updated:

https://sicem365.com/baylor-womens-basketball/schedule

I suppose it does not matter much since the information is here and elsewhere.
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In reply to historian • 10:09p, 10/26/20
historian said:
Nice to have a schedule finally. The info above is helpful but has some errors. For example, I know the Lady Bears will not play two games on one day (Jan. 20)--especially since one of those is in Stillwater!

A couple other points:

I'm disappointed that the only serious non conference opponent is UConn. That's still a big game & I plan to be there (I was at the game 2 years ago) but it would be better to play an ACC or Big East team & at least one PAC 12 team. I know, they cancelled a lot of stuff. I'd like to think that another game or 2 can be added later but that's unlikely.

I'm surprised that on multiple weeks, the Lady Bears will play 3 games (December 14-19, January 10-16, & February 14-20). That seems grueling. Good thing we have a lot of depth. We will need it.
Most schedules have been altered because of COVID precautions. Look at other schools who have pulled out of big games for fear of major travel and/or wanting to ensure that fans got to be in the arena to watch the big game happen. Be happy with a home UCONN contest and take a realistic look at both Arkansas and South Flordia - both will be good games. Very happy with the schedule Mulkey has put into place and am eager to watch the ladies vie for 11 in a row. Time to start the second decade of dominance.
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In reply to bawitdaball • 10:38p, 10/26/20
All valid points. I'm just thinking in terms of resume for post season. But you're right: if we can win all these then it should compare favorably to everyone else with the same problem.
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8:20a, 10/27/20
I think the only other non-conference game that got cancelled was the Dec 19th game against Oregon, scheduled for Las Vegas. Not a bad NC schedule given UConn and Arkansas (a good team this year and will test our defense against the 3-point shot). Oregon got cancelled because the PAC-12 cancelled all sports (initially) and then realized that the college FB was going to go on without the PAC-12 or BIG10.

I still don't know if Oregon has gotten a schedule up yet for WBB?
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In reply to historian • 11:02a, 10/27/20
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historian said:
Sicem365's schedule page has not yet been updated:

https://sicem365.com/baylor-womens-basketball/schedule

I suppose it does not matter much since the information is here and elsewhere.
My fault.

Will update soon.
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In reply to Brian Ethridge • 11:17a, 10/27/20
Thanks
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11:41a, 10/27/20
2 quality games, 1 average game, 4 weak opponents. Would have preferred to see one more quality game and one less weak opponent. NET will be funky this year, better to take SOS out of the mix.

For those not familiar with NET: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2020-05-04/womens-basketball-ncaa-evaluation-tool-replace-rpi-team-sorting-tool

And significant changes were made earlier this year: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/xavier/2020/05/11/ncaa-makes-changes-college-basketballs-net-rankings/3109618001/
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12:30p, 10/27/20
I just made a reservation at Waco Hilton for the night of the UCONN game.....
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Should be updated
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In reply to Brian Ethridge • 1:39p, 10/27/20
thanks
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In reply to Lone Star • 2:03p, 10/27/20
Lone Star said:
I think the only other non-conference game that got cancelled was the Dec 19th game against Oregon, scheduled for Las Vegas. Not a bad NC schedule given UConn and Arkansas (a good team this year and will test our defense against the 3-point shot). Oregon got cancelled because the PAC-12 cancelled all sports (initially) and then realized that the college FB was going to go on without the PAC-12 or BIG10.

I still don't know if Oregon has gotten a schedule up yet for WBB?
I believe we were also set to host Standford for the backend of the home-home that occurred in California the 2018-2019 season where we lost.
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In reply to Adriacus Peratuun • 4:57p, 10/27/20
Adriacus Peratuun said:
2 quality games, 1 average game, 4 weak opponents. Would have preferred to see one more quality game and one less weak opponent. NET will be funky this year, better to take SOS out of the mix.

For those not familiar with NET: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2020-05-04/womens-basketball-ncaa-evaluation-tool-replace-rpi-team-sorting-tool

And significant changes were made earlier this year: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/xavier/2020/05/11/ncaa-makes-changes-college-basketballs-net-rankings/3109618001/
Again, that Oregon game would have been that 3rd quality game but that cancellation was out of our control.

UConn traditionally loads up with non-conference opponents because they play in a weaker conference. Not sure the Big East (other than DePaul) will be much tougher but, we will find out.
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11:24p, 10/27/20
we also play in a weak conference which we have dominated for 3 to 4 to 10 years.

kim needs to hang out with drew.

a 3-time national champion and perennial top 5 shouldn't play many of the schools on our schedule.

it's fine if that's the decision you make with scheduling, just don't ask me to pay the same price to watch you play SFA as you charge for UCONN.

no time for the bunnies.
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In reply to historian • 8:31a, 10/29/20
With 25% capacity only season ticket holders will have a shot to buy UCONN tickets. Good luck finding a ticket to that game.
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