Women’s basketball roundup: No. 1 Baylor remains undefeated
Btittney Griner had 18 points, 14 rebounds and matched a career high with five assists as top-ranked Baylor slipped past Texas Tech 56-51 in a Big 12 game last night to stay unbeaten.
Destiny Williams added 16 points for the Lady Bears (27-0, 14-0), getting most of her points on layups — several coming at key times. Her layup with 7:49 left broke a 46-all tie and put Baylor ahead to stay.
Texas Tech (17-9, 5-9) is the only Big 12 team to keep the final margin against Baylor under 10 points. They lost 72-64 at home a month earlier.
Yesterday’s highlights
No. 3 Stanford 81, Oregon 46 — Joslyn Tinkle scored 19 points, All-American Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Stanford (24-1, 15-0) routed Oregon (14-13, 6-9) to clinch the inaugural Pac-12 title.
The Cardinal has won 21 consecutive games since a Nov. 21 loss at Connecticut and 72 consecutive conference games dating to January 2009.
No. 11 Wisconsin-Green Bay 77, Youngstown State 72, OT — Adrian Ritchie scored 26 points, including nine in the last 35 seconds of regulation to force overtime, as Wisconsin-Green Bay (23-1, 13-1) edged Youngstown State (10-16, 4-11) in the Horizon League.
No. 22 St. Bonaventure 66, Xavier 48 — Megan Van Tatenhove had 24 points and seven rebounds to lead St. Bonaventure (25-2, 11-0) over Xavier (7-18, 4-8) in the Atlantic 10.