Tag: Lady Bears

The Texas Longhorns women’s basketball took the court Friday night in hopes of securing their second top five upset of the season. Earlier this year, the Longhorns took down the number one ranked Stanford Cardinals in Austin. Early on it looked as if the lady horns would be able to keep it relatively close. By halftime the number one ranked Baylor squad led by just five points before the wheels came off the Longhorns upset bid.

In the third quarter the Bears rattle off a 23-5 run to increase their lead to 52-29 and the scoring droughts were too common for Texas. On the night they shot a meager 24.6 percent from the field. For Texas nothing was working as they even shot just 36.8 percent from the free throw line, it just wasn’t working for the Longhorns. Credit the Baylor Bears for putting a lot of pressure on Texas.

Charli Collier showed her presence in the paint with 16 rebounds and four blocks but she shot just 1-10 from the field, with her only basket being from behind the arc. In the second half she missed all three attempts from the field and both free throw attempts. Sug Sutton led the starters with nine points on 4-13 shooting, senior guard Lashann Higgs led all Longhorns with 10 points off the bench and the only one who shot better than 50 percent from the line.

The Lady Bears continued their dominance of the Big 12 with their eighth-straight conference win dropping the Longhorns to 14-7 and 6-3 in the Big 12. For Texas they will travel to Lubbock on February 9th to take on the Lady Raiders. In their previous matchup, the Longhorns throttled Tech to start their five game win streak that Baylor snapped on Friday night.