By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider 
            Ja'Mee Asberry has a green light to pretty much shoot anytime she wants from outside the arc. Or anywhere for that matter. 
            The Oklahoma State transfer had her best day in a Baylor uniform, matching her career high with six 3-pointers and pumping in a season-high 20 points to help the fifth-ranked Bears (9-1) roll to a 94-40 win over Alcorn State in the "I'm Going to College" game Wednesday at the Ferrell Center. 
            "I have a ton of confidence in Ja'Mee, her ability to shoot the basketball," Baylor coach Nicki Collen said of Asberry, who was 6-of-8 from 3-point range and 7-of-11 overall. "I think she's one of the best shooters in America. It should be her goal to be the best shooter in America."
            NaLyssa Smith recorded her ninth-straight double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds, while Sarah Andrews and Caitlin Bickle scored 14 and 13 points, respectively. The Bears ran their winning streak to six in a row and won their 66^th-consecutive non-conference game at home. 
            "They're the No. 5 team in the nation for a reason," said Alcorn State coach Nate Kilbert, whose team fell to 0-7. "They've got great athletes, they've got size and they just gave us fits, especially on the defensive end."
            Using that size advantage, Baylor dominated the boards, 42-26, scoring 16 second-chance points off 11 offensive rebounds, and outscored the Lady Braves, 34-12, in the paint.
            Hitting three of its first five shots, including a pair of 3-pointers by Diamond Hall, Alcorn only trailed 11-8 halfway through the first quarter. Smith hit a short jumper in the lane and a pair of free throws to start a 14-2 run that Asberry capped with her first 3-pointer. 
            "I think she's a player that if her footwork is right, if her head is right, then she's capable of stepping up and making five or six 3's a game," Collen said of Asberry. "She's that good of a shooter."
            Off an inbounds play with 0.9 seconds left in the second quarter, Asberry drained a 3-pointer from well beyond the arc to give the Bears a 51-18 halftime lead. And then she did it again at the end of the third quarter, taking an inbounds pass from Andrews and canning a 3-pointer from the wing that made it 81-29 going into the fourth. 
            Collen said the shots at the end of a quarter are "almost the easiest to take, because there's so little time and you have to be prepared on the catch."
            "The first one, I was just standing there," Asberry said. "I really tried to be a decoy, and then I ended up being part of the play. I guess that was the easiest play we ever ran."
            Earlier in the third quarter, Baylor got a bit of a scare when 6-3 senior center Queen Egbo had to be helped off the court after rolling her ankle. Grabbing an offensive rebound, Egbo fell awkwardly when she was fouled by Hall, finishing with nine points, seven rebounds, three blocks and two steals in just 14 minutes. 
            "I know it hurt, but if there's such a thing as a good time, we've got two days off and then have this length of time because of finals before our next game," said Collen, who indicated that it didn't appear to be a high-ankle sprain. "We'll be super careful. It's not about how quickly you can get somebody back but how quickly you can get them back comfortably."
            Smith, who recorded her national-best ninth double-double, played only 20 minutes and went to the bench right after grabbing her 10^th rebound with 4:49 left in the third quarter. Bickle and freshman Kendra Gillespie played the rest of the way, Gillespie finishing with a career-high 22 minutes, five points and five rebounds. 
            "As soon as Lys got her double-double, she was out and done," Collen said. "I watched (UConn sophomore) Paige Buecker's injury the other day. There are some things you can control and some things you can't. But, when you see it, it definitely makes you think about things like that."
            After missing 14 free throws in Saturday's 70-68 win over Missouri, the Bears shot 81% from the line, hitting 17-of-21. Bickle, who got most of the minutes when Egbo went out, made 9-of-10 charity shots. 
            "Free throws are mental," Collen said. "If you over-talk about it, then you make people nervous about it. I've always believed you become a great free throw shooter on your own. There is no coach in America that has made a good free throw shooter. Free throw shooters are made by them getting extra shots up."
            Freshman guard Zy'Nyia White led Alcorn State with eight points, hitting 3-of-7 from the floor and making the Lady Braves' only two free throws of the game. 
            After a 10-day break, Baylor will face 13^th-ranked Michigan (8-1) in the Naismith Women's Challenge at noon CST Dec. 19 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.