Baylor, West Virginia Postgame Notes
1/9/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 9, 2014
7/7 BAYLOR (13-1, 3-0) 78, WEST VIRGINIA (14-1, 2-1) 62Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014
West Virginia Coliseum (Morgantown, WV)
Attendance: 2,791
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
•Odyssey Sims set a West Virginia Coliseum scoring record with a career-high 48 points.
•Sims' 48 points rank No. 3 on BU's single game scoring list behind Mary Lowry's 54 (vs. Texas, Feb. 16, 1984 and Brittney Griner's 50 (vs. Kansas State (March 13, 2013).
• Baylor leads the all-time series with West Virginia 4-1 after Wednesday night's win and the Lady Bears are 4-0 vs. the Mountaineers under head coach Kim Mulkey.
• Baylor has won a nation's-best and Big 12 school-record 43 straight regular-season league games, as its last league loss came Feb. 19, 2011, vs. Texas Tech (56-45).
• Baylor is 76-26 in January games under Mulkey.
• Baylor has won 52 straight games against Big 12 opponents overall, a continuing league record.
• Baylor is 106-3 over last four seasons when scoring 70 or more points, BU is 297-16 under Mulkey when scoring 70+ and 191-6 when scoring 80+.
• Baylor has scored at least 75 points in all 13 games this season.
• The Lady Bears outrebounded WVU by 21 (51-30).
TEAM NOTES
• Baylor shot a season-high 57.1 (8-14) percent from 3-point range.
• In Baylor's last 267 games, only one opponent (Stanford, .509) has shot 50% or above. Last season, the Cardinal broke BU's streak of 217 games of holding opponents to under 50 percent shooting. Under Mulkey, BU has held its foes under 50% shooting in 454 of 466 games.
• Baylor is 121-6 over the last four seasons and 109 of those wins have been by 10 points or more - only five times has Baylor's winning margin been five points or fewer.
• Baylor is 87-3 over the past three seasons.
• Baylor has 48-straight games with at least one 3-point field goal made dating back to Nov. 13, 2012 when BU was 0-for-3 from long range.
• Baylor is now 321-32 under Mulkey when outrebounding its opponent (51-30).
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• Sims' career-high 48 points marked the third time in her career scoring 40 or more points; 47 vs. Kentucky, 40 at Kansas State.
• Sims hauled down a career-high 10 rebounds, recording her first double-double with rebounds and her sixth career double-double.
• Sims now has 15 straight games with at least 20 points dating back to last year's NCAA Tournament game with Louisville; it marks the 32nd time in her career she's passed the 20-point mark in a game and the 8th time she's scored 30 or more points.
• Sims, with six treys tonight, set a school record for career 3-pointers, she now has 201, passing Jennifer King's (1989-93) 195.
• Sims 26 first-half points are the most by halftime for her this season, she had 24 vs. Rice and UTSA.
• Sims extended her streak of double-digit scoring to 24 games. Sims was last held to single-digits vs. UCONN, Feb. 18 when she had 9.
• Sims now has 87 career games in double figures and has led the team in points 26 times in her career.
• Sims has now scored double figures in the first half of all 14 games this season (13 vs. Grambling State; 14 vs. Nicholls State; 24 vs. Rice (career high); 11 vs. Savannah State; 20 vs. Northwestern State; 24 vs. UTSA; 17 vs. SJSU; 13 vs. Kentucky; 16 vs. Houston Baptist; 16 vs. Ole Miss; 20 vs. McNeese State, 15 at Kansas State, 18 vs. Kansas, 26 at West Virginia).
• Sims' 48 points gives her 449 on the season; she's scored at least 400 points in all four of her seasons with Baylor.
• Through 3-plus years, 4th-year players Sims and Mackenzie Robertson are 121-6 (.953) overall, 54-1 (.982) in Big 12 regular season play and undefeated (66-0) at the Ferrell Center. The duo has 6 Big 12 titles, 3 NCAA Tournament trips, an NCAA title and two Final Four appearances to their credit.
• Nina Davis' 12 points gives the freshman double figures in 12 of 14 games this season.
• Makenzie Robertson tallied a career-high 10 rebounds.
