TAMPA -- Years before forwards Kalani Brown and Lauren Cox were leading a one-loss Baylor team to the women's Final Four, they were a pair of underclassmen on a team stacked with talent in the post.
In her first two years, Brown shared the responsibility of fueling the Bears' inside game with Kristina Higgins and Nina Davis. Cox, a Flower Mound native and two-time SportsDay Girls Basketball Player of the Year in high school, saw some game action as a freshman. But she and Brown were rarely found on the court at the same time.
But outside of game days, they stuck together.