Baylor, Michigan State Postgame Notes
11/29/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015
St. Georges HS (Freeport, Bahamas)
Attendance: 684
BAYLOR POSTGAME NOTES
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
- Today's game marks Baylor's second appearance in the Junkanoo Jam. BU won the Lucaya Division in 2006.
- BU is now 3-0 in games played in the Junkanoo Jam.
- Nina Davis was named Lucaya Division MVP while Niya Johnson and Alexis Jones joined her on the All-Star team.
- Baylor is 443-90 all-time under Kim Mulkey.
- Baylor is 836-488 all-time in its 43rd season.
- Baylor leads the series with Michigan State, 4-0.
- 154 of Baylor's 178 wins since 2010-11 have been by 10 points or more, and only 12 times in that span has its winning margin been five points or fewer.
- Baylor is 179-14 over the past five seasons.
- Under Mulkey, Baylor is 115-65 against ranked opponents, including a 40-8 mark since 2011-12.
- Baylor's starting lineup featured Niya Johnson, Alexis Jones, Kristy Wallace, Nina Davis and Kristina Higgins -- the group is 4-0 on the season as a starting unit.
TEAM NOTES
- After going scoreless for the first 5:10 of the game, Baylor came storming back to pull within two at the end of the first quarter. BU outscored Michigan State 24-17 in the second quarter to take a 39-34 lead into the lockerroom at the half.
- Baylor has held its opponent at or below 50 percent shooting in 520 of 533 games under Mulkey with only five of those efforts coming in the last 13 years.
- Baylor is 6-0 for the seventh time in the Mulkey era and first since a 7-0 start in 2013-14.
- Baylor is 353-16 under Mulkey when scoring 70 or more points, including a 211-6 record when scoring 80 or more.
- Baylor is 391-26 when leading at half under Mulkey.
- Baylor is 88-8 in November games under Mulkey.
- Baylor is 419-19 when outshooting its opponent under Mulkey.
- Baylor is 371-35 when outrebounding its opponent under Mulkey.
- Baylor has out rebounded its opponent in all six games this season.
- Baylor has shot over .500 in four of its last five games (USM, .535; DePaul, .632; Cincinnati, .544; Michigan State, .551).
- Baylor has shot a season-high 82.4 percent (28-34) from the free throw line.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
- Nina Davis (30 points) has scored in double figures in all six games this season and 72 times in her career. Her output was a season high.
- Davis produced her first 30-point effort of the season and seventh of her career.
- Senior Niya Johnson (19 points) scored a career-high tying 19 points, she was 12-of-13 from the free throw line.
- Freshman Beatrice Mompremier hauled down a game-high, career-high-tying seven rebounds.
- Junior Alexis Jones (19 points) notched her fourth double-digit scoring effort of the season.
