Baylor
Lindenwood
No. 16 WBB Begins Home Slate Hosting Lindenwood
11/8/2025 3:07:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Tipoff from the Banks of the Brazos at 2 p.m. CT
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16/18 BAYLOR BEARS (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Nicki Collen (Marquette, 1998) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
16/18 BAYLOR (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs LINDENWOOD (1-0, 0-0 OVC) Nov. 9, 2025 • 2:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN+ Talent: Lincoln Rose (pxp), Jordan Lewis (analyst) LISTEN: Baylor Sports Media Network via FOX Sports Radio 93.9FM in Central Texas and worldwide at centexsportsfan.com. Talent: Derek Smith (pxp), Lori Fogleman (analyst) |
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LINDENWOOD LIONS (1-0, 0-0 OVC) Location: St. Charles, Mo. Conference/Affiliation: Ohio Valley Head Coach: Amy Eagan (Truman St., 2001) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Game notes:
• Baylor opens its home slate against Lindenwood on Sunday afternoon at Foster Pavilion, facing the Lions for the first time in program history.
• BU opened the season away from home for the first time since 2009 at Tennessee and returns to Waco looking to keep its home-opening record under Nicki Collen perfect at 5-0. The Bears have been unscathed in home openers since a loss to Colorado that opened the 1992-93 home schedule.
• The Bears picked up a big top 10 win over No. 7 Duke in the season opener, the program's first since 2023 and fifth under head coach Nicki Collen.
• Baylor returns to the court with a new-look roster that features six new players and three new coaches, highlighted by three Auburn pickups: Assoc. HC Johnnie Harris, redshirt sophomore Taliah Scott and sophomore Yuting Deng.
• Baylor is ranked 16th in the AP Poll and 18th in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll, facing a top-10 Duke squad named seventh in the AP and sixth in the Coaches Poll.
• Baylor picked up its first top 10 win since December 2023 in the season opener against No. 7 Duke, 58–53, at Adidas Arena in Paris, France. The game marked the season's first ranked-vs.-ranked matchup and first nationally televised broadcast.
• With the victory, the Bears are 22-21 against AP Top 25 teams in the Nicki Collen era, including a 5-9 mark against top 10 opponents, breaking a six-game top 10 loss streak that began on Jan. 22, 2024, against Kansas State.
• The win marked BU's second top 10 season-opening victory since 2000, the first coming against No. 8 Georgia in 2005.
• The Bears are the first DI team this century to open a season with a win over an AP top-10 opponent while holding them to 30.0 percent or lower shooting from the field.
• Darianna Littlepage-Buggs opened the season with her 30th career double-double, while Taliah Scott's Baylor debut featured 24 points, 12 of them in the fourth quarter, to help the Bears pull away and seal the win.
• Baylor's defense held Duke to just 29.0% (20-63) from the floor, the Blue Devils' worst shooting performance since going 23.5 percent at No. 19 North Carolina in January.
• Baylor's roster features four players in their fourth season under head coach Nicki Collen, the most among Big 12 programs. BYU follows with two, while Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech each have one.
• UConn leads major basketball conferences (Power Four + Big East) with five returners in at least their fourth year, while Baylor's four are tied for second with Iowa, Minnesota and Washington.
• Kyla Abraham, Bella Fontleroy and Darianna Littlepage-Buggs all signed straight out of high school in an unbroken 2022 recruiting class.
• Jana Van Gytenbeek missed Year No. 3 at BU because of injury, but regained a year of eligibility to finish out her collegiate career under Collen.
• Baylor was picked to finish third in the league by the Big 12 head coaches with two first-place votes.
• Darianna Littlepage-Buggs had her second preseason mention come unanimously, joined by Bella Fontleroy as BU representatives.
• The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the WBCA picked Taliah Scott (Ann Meyers-Drysdale - Shooting Guard), Fontleroy (Cheryl Miller - Small Forward) and Littlepage-Buggs (Katrina McClain - Power Forward) to be on their preseason Starting Five watchlists, joining the top 20 position players in the country. Top 10 midseason and final five postseason announcements will follow for each award, with the winner being announced at the WBCA convention.
• Littlepage-Buggs was also announced as part of the 2025-26 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's College Player of the Year Watch List Presented by AXIA Time and recieved a vote for AP Preseason All-America.
