Nov. 21, 2005
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Game 4:
#6/5 Baylor (3-0) vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (0-1)
Nov. 22, 2005 • 7 p.m.
Ferrell Center (10,284) • Waco, Texas
RADIO
Baylor/ISP Sports Network
KRZI/ESPN 1660 AM
Rick May - play-by-play
Lori Fogleman - color analyst
Broadcast begins 30 minutes prior to tip.
INTERNET FEEDS
Audio - live broadcast stream at BaylorBears.com
Video (All-Access) - live video stream at BaylorBears.com
BAYLOR VS. TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI...
Baylor and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will meet for the first time when they take to the court on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. The Lady Bears, 3-0, come into the contest riding an NCAA Division I-best 23-game win streak, while the Texas A&M-CC Islanders sport an 0-1 record after dropping their season opener at home to Vanderbilt, 65-51, on Saturday night. The Lady Bears are seeking their fifth 4-0 start in head coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson's six seasons at Baylor.
QUICK TURNAROUND...
The Lady Bears will play three games in a five-day span. Immediately after last Friday night's game against UCLA, the Lady Bears boarded a charter plane to travel to Bloomington, Ind., to play a Saturday game at Indiana. Baylor then returns home to host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Early the next morning the team departs Waco to fly to Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the Cancun Classic over the Thanksgiving holidays.
BAYLOR IN THE POLLS...
Baylor finished last season ranked No. 1 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll and No. 5 in the Associated Press (AP) poll. The Lady Bears, defending NCAA champions, are currently ranked No. 5 in the most recent coaches poll after debuting at No 7 in the preseason poll. The AP poll's first ranking of the season (Nov. 8) lists Baylor at No. 6.
Baylor received two first-place votes in the preseason AP poll while Georgia received one. Of the teams in the current poll, only Baylor and Maryland appeared in the first AP poll on Nov. 25, 1976.
23-GAME WIN STREAK...
The Lady Bears enter the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi contest sporting the nation's longest win streak, a school-record 23-game string. Baylor's last loss came on Jan. 22, 2005, in Austin, Texas when the Texas Longhorns handed the Lady Bears a 69-55 loss. Baylor would then go on to reel off 20 straight wins in 2005, including victories over three No.1 NCAA Tournament seeds, North Carolina, LSU and Michigan State, to claim its first national title. The Lady Bears extended the win streak to 23 games by defeating Georgia in their season opener, 84-72, as part of the State Farm Tip-Off Classic, UCLA (93-85), and Indiana (74-62).
Sophia Young NAMED BIG 12 PLAYER OF THE WEEK...
Sophia Young was named Big 12 Women's Basketball Player of the Week by a media voting panel in the league's first selections of the 2005-06 season. In addition, Oklahoma freshman Courtney Paris was chosen Big 12 Rookie of the Week.
The award was Young's eighth career Big 12 honor, fifth as player of the week. Earlier this season she was named by the coaches as the Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year, is a consensus All-American and is on the Wade Trophy and Wooden Award watch lists.
Young, a 6-1 senior forward, averaged 25.0 points, 13.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists in Baylor's three wins over Georgia, UCLA and Indiana. She is shooting .600 (33-55) from the floor and has also registered four blocks and three steals. In addition, Young has recorded two double-doubles and missed a third by one rebound. She now has 46 career double-doubles, just eight shy of Angie Welle's (Iowa State) Big 12 record of 54. Young hauled down her 1,000th career rebound against Georgia and currently has 1,026 to move into the No. 2 spot on the Baylor career charts and No. 5 on the Big 12 career list.
MULKEY'S TEAMS PROTECTING THE HOME COURT...
In Kim Mulkey-Robertson's five years as Baylor's head coach, her teams are 71-10 (.877) in the Ferrell Center and eight of those 10 losses have come against ranked teams. The Lady Bears have won 18 straight home games dating back to their Feb. 8, 2004, loss to Texas Tech. In non-conference games, Baylor sports a 13-game home win streak and is 39-2 (.951) in the Ferrell Center under Mulkey-Robertson's tutelage.
During her tenure, Baylor's only home losses have come to:
Jan. 13, 2001 - lost to #17 Oklahoma (90-87)
Feb. 7, 2001 - lost to #11 Texas Tech (67-56)
Jan. 12, 2002 - lost to #3 Oklahoma (82-73)
March 17, 2002 - lost to Drake (76-72, 2nd Round NCAA)
Jan. 26, 2003 - lost to #22 Oklahoma (65-64)
Feb. 8, 2003 - lost to #5 Kansas State (65-53)
Feb. 26, 2003 - lost to #10 Texas (79-57)
April 4, 2003 - lost to Auburn (64-63, WNIT Finals)
Jan. 7, 2004 - lost to #14 Colorado (69-59)
Feb. 8, 2004 - lost to #9 Texas Tech (62-59)
YOUNG ACHIEVES MILESTONE...
With her 14 rebound performance against Georgia senior forward Sophia Young surpassed the 1,000 rebound mark. In doing so, she becomes just the fourth Baylor player to attain that mark. Since the Georgia game, Young has risen to No. 2 on the Baylor rebounding charts, currently registering 1,026 boards, passing Maggie Davis Stinnett's 1,022. Suzie Snider Eppers (1973-77) holds down No. 1 at 2,176.
YOUNG MOVING UP BIG 12 CHARTS...
Sophia Young is steadily moving up the Big 12 Conference's career charts.
Double-Doubles - 46, currently ranks No. 3
No. 1 - 54, Angie Welle (Iowa State, 1999-02)
No. 2 - 52, Kendra Wecker (Kansas State, 2002-05)
Rebounding - 1,026, currently ranks No. 5
No. 4 - 1,052, Caton Hill (Oklahoma, 2000-04)
Steals - 247, currently ranks No. 10
No. 9 - 250, Stacey Dales (Oklahoma, 1999-02)
Scoring - 1,819, currently ranks No. 10
No. 9 - 1,858, Tera Bjordlund (Colorado, 2001-04)
Sophia Young CONSENSUS TOP FIVE PLAYER...
Sophia Young is a consensus top five player this season. She recently became Baylor basketball's first-ever AP Preseason All-American. In addition, Young has been named a top five player by numerous publications.
Angela Tisdale MAKING MARK...
After averaging 3.7 points and 14.7 minutes a game as a freshman last season, point guard Angela Tisdale has shown considerable improvement this season. The sophomore is averaging 20.3 points a game which ranks second on the team and is dishing out 7.3 assists an outing. In addition, she is averaging a team-leading 38.0 minutes a game. Although her scoring is impressive this season, even more important is the fact that she has committed just six turnovers in 114 minutes.
Abiola Wabara STEPPING UP...
Junior Abiola Wabara knew that she had to step up her play this season and she's doing just that. The 6-0 forward/post has always been an impressive defender but this season she is making a large contribution in both scoring and rebounding. After averaging 5.5 points and 3.6 rebounds in 2004-05, Wabara has averaged 13.3 points and 9.0 rebounds thus far in 2005-06. She has produced two double-doubles with an 13-point, 10-rebound performance against Georgia and 10 points and a career-high 13 rebounds versus UCLA. In addition, she recorded a career-high 17 points against Indiana.
BAYLOR HEAD COACH Kim Mulkey-Robertson...
Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson is in her sixth season and owns a 134-38 head coaching record which equates to a .779 winning percentage. She has produced 20-win seasons in her first five years as a head coach and has taken the Lady Bears to postseason competition, four times to the NCAA Tournament and to the finals of the WNIT. In 2005, the Lady Bears claimed Baylor's and the Big 12's first NCAA basketball championship.
Baylor year-by-year under Mulkey-Robertson:
2000-01 - 21-9 - NCAA, lost in first round (Arkansas)
2001-02 - 27-6 - NCAA, lost in second round (Drake)
2002-03 - 24-11 - WNIT, lost in finals (Auburn)
2003-04 - 26-9 - NCAA, lost in Sweet 16 (Tennessee)
2004-05 - 33-3 - NCAA Champions
2005-06 - 3-0
Mulkey-Robertson was named Baylor's fourth head coach on April 4, 2000. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame that same year. She was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in June of 2003.
THE OPPONENTS...
The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders (1-0) are coming off a school record 23 wins and return four starters and the team's top reserves from a year ago. TAMU-CC, 23-7 last season, returns 87 percent of its scoring from a season ago. In 2004-05, the Islanders, playing as an independent, became the first independent women's basketball team to be selected for postseason play since Penn State in 1992. They advanced the to second round of the WNIT in 2004-05.
In the Islanders' season opener on Saturday versus Vanderbilt, the Commodores posted a 65-51 win. Senior forward Terra Andrews, last season's leading scorer (15.5) and rebounder (8.4), led the Islanders against Vanderbilt with a 15-point, 10-rebound performance. Junior guard Nicole Duncan followed with 11 points to complete the Islanders' double-digit scoring.
THE COACHES...
The 2005-06 season marks Jodi Kest's fourth season as the Islanders' head coach. Since taking over the reins of the program, she has posted a 57-29 record. Kest is in her 14th season as a head coach and owns a 210-141 career mark.
THE SERIES RECORDS...
This will be the first meeting between Baylor and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
