By Marquis Cooley | Sports Editor
No. 5 Baylor women’s basketball clinched an outright Big 12 championship for the first time in 11 years after demolishing Texas Tech University 82-57 on Sunday afternoon at the Ferrell Center. It’s Baylor’s 12th-consecutive regular-season conference championship and 13th overall.
“I’m just really proud of how we’re playing right now,” head coach Nicki Collen said. “Not just the championship, but how we’re playing and how we’re playing unselfishly and sharing the ball. I just think we’re hard to play against right now.”
It was career-day for senior forward NaLyssa Smith in her last game at the Ferrell Center, scoring a career-high 35 points to go with 12 rebounds for her 21st double-double of the season and 49th of her career, both of which are second in program history.