The Jayhawks already owned at least a tie for the Big 12 Conference title, but a win would give KU the outright league championship.
After Kansas (26-2, 15-1) flexed its muscle in the first two sets, Baylor (21-11, 9-7) made KU earn the outright crown. The Jayhawks used a 6-1 run to erase an early fifth-set deficit en route to their 13th consecutive win and eighth straight against the Bears (25-20, 25-15, 16-25, 22-25, 15-9).
"We didn't roll over," Baylor head coach Ryan McGuyre said. "We kept fighting, kept chipping away. I was discouraged by the number of hitting errors we had early in the match, not playing as cleanly as we can.