The Baylor Bears have held the No. 2 ranking in the women’s AP Top 25 Poll for the majority of the 2019-20 season. Their sole loss was to current No. 1 South Carolina at the Paradise Jam and they were one of three teams that had distanced themselves from everyone else in the NCAA.
Until the final hours of their regular season. Iowa State pulled off the upset of one of the NCAA title favorites with a 57-56 victory at home on the final day of the regular season. It broke the 58-game regular-season Big 12 win streak Baylor built that dated back to Feb.