Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship Monday

Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship Monday, March 11, 2019 · Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, Okla. GAME NOTES No. 1 Baylor 67, No. 2 Iowa State 49 Championship Notes ● No. 1 Baylor won its 10th all-time Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Championship title. The Lady Bears have won back-to-back titles and eight of the last nine. ● This was Baylor’s ninth-consecutive trip to the title game and Iowa State’s first appearance since 2013 -- when the Lady Bears defeated the Cyclones 75-47. Baylor has a league-best 43-13 all-time record in the Big 12 Women’s Championship. ● This was the ninth time that the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds have met in the finals. No. 1 seeds have never lost to a No. 2 seed in the championship game. ● No. 1 seeds are 15-3 all-time in the final game, while No. 2 seeds are 2-9. ● Baylor is 10-0 in championship games when leading at the half. The team leading at the half is 20-3 all-time in the Big 12 Women’s Championship game. ● BU head coach Kim Mulkey leads all Big 12 coaches for most games (51), most wins (42) and win percentage (.824) in the Championship. She is now 10-3 all-time in the title game. Individual & Team Notes ● The Lady Bears held the Cyclones to five points in the fourth quarter, the lowest-ever in a quarter in a championship game. ● Baylor senior Kalani Brown was named Most Outstanding Player for the second-straight year. BU has had a player win the accolade 10 times, including six different players, and three Lady Bears have won it in back-to-back seasons. ● Brown was the leading scorer at this year’s Championship with 55 points over three games, while Baylor’s Lauren Cox was this year’s leading rebounder with 29. ● Brown has scored 213 career points at the Championship, securing sixth place all-time. She has also grabbed 91 career rebounds at the tournament and moved into sixth place on the all-time leaderboard. ● Iowa State head coach Bill Fennelly is 2-4 in the finals of the Big 12 Women’s Championship. ● The Cyclones defense kept Baylor to 12 points in the second quarter, which tied for the lowest amount of points the Lady Bears scored in a quarter at the Big 12 Women’s Championship. They were also held to 12 points against Kansas State in the fourth quarter of this year’s semifinals in the fourth quarter. ● ISU senior Alexa Middleton led all scorers with 18 points. She also tallied three assists to move her 2019 Championship total to 17, tying for the most at this year’s Championship (Kayla Goth, Kansas State). ● Iowa State senior Bridget Carleton added 13 points to bring her career totals at the Big 12 Women’s Championship to 130 points, which included seven double-digit scoring performances. She had 25 career steals at the Championship, which is fourth-most all-time. Attendance: 3,272 Most Outstanding Player: Kalani Brown (Baylor) All-Tournament Team: Bridget Carleton (Iowa State), Lauren Cox (Baylor), Alexa Middleton (Iowa State), Sug Sutton (Texas) .

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