A Day at the Beach

Waco, TX–Baylor (9-3) wrapped up their non-meeting slate with a convincing 73-52 victory about Long Beach State (5-5), which was the last Baylor basketball video game–gentlemen or ladies–just before Christmas. It was a rebound get that was significantly needed immediately after their 21-level blowout decline to then No. 20 Arizona in Dallas.

Jaden Owens and Ajiha Blackwell did not participate in and Dre’Una Edwards was nonetheless sidelined thanks to waiting NCAA academic waivers. Bella Fontleroy stepped into the commencing job as Mentor Nicki Collen made use of a four guard lineup for the vast majority of the game.

Fontleroy highlighted off her 11-place overall performance with an acrobatic AND-1 in the fourth quarter in which she chased down a loose ball, was fouled and in some way was equipped to flip the ball off the backboard as she was falling to the ground for the layup. The freshman has now scored in double digits in 7 of the past 8 video games. Ja’Mee Asberry also experienced 11 points on the afternoon with a workforce superior three manufactured three-pointers.

It was Caitlin Bickle who experienced the best demonstrating of the working day, creating 7 of 8 area aim attempts for a video game superior 17 points, like an AND-1 right before the conclusion of the third quarter to increase Baylor’s lead to 14. The Bears held ‘The Beach’ to only seven points in the third quarter, on the other hand, only mustered 10 on their own.

Bickle and Darianna Littlepage Buggs assisted the Bears keep a sizeable advantage down small as Baylor outscored Lengthy Seashore Point out by 18 in the paint. The Bears also extra 14 second opportunity points. Soon after only scoring two factors in opposition to Arizona, Buggs experienced a nice hard work, scoring eight details and grabbing 8 boards. Baylor concentrated on currently being deliberate with the three-point attempts they took, as they only shot three in the 1st three quarters just before firing up nine in the fourth quarter. They completed 7-of-18 from deep (39 per cent) and shot 56 percent from the industry (28-of-50), and held ‘The Beach’ to 35 and 33 percent taking pictures from the subject and three respectively.

Sarah Andrews almost completed with a triple double–would have joined Brittney Griner, Alexis Jones and Jordan Lewis– as she missed it by a single level. She only experienced nine factors on 2-of-9 capturing (1-of-7 from three), but snagged 12 rebounds and dished out 14 helps–the most given that Kristy Wallace experienced 15 in 2016-17. Catarina Ferreira had three details and three assists and Jana Van Gytenbeek strike both equally of her threes to account for all 6 of her details. Baylor had 17 complete points off the bench as Kendra Gillispie included 7.

For Prolonged Seashore, Tori Harris had a team higher 12 details while Ma’Qhi Berry and Kianna Hamilton-Fisher every experienced 10 details. They served drive 20 Baylor turnovers for the video game but could not continue to keep up with the Bears down the extend when Baylor at last started to separate.

Baylor will host TCU on Saturday’s New Decades Eve as they start their quest to defend their normal season Major 12 crown and win their 13th in a row. The Bears will probable remain in the prime 25 up to that place, preserving their 360-in addition week streak of currently being rated intact.