Bickle leads WBB Fourth-Quarter Rally to 64-42 Rout of TCU

Saturday, December 31

Waco, Texas

2 p.m.

Baylor

10-3,1-0Big 12

TCU

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TCU

Baylor

Bickle leads WBB Fourth-Quarter Rally to 64-42 Rout of TCU

12/31/2022 4:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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WACO, Texas – Caitlin Bickle had a team-leading 19 points to lead No. 23/22 Baylor women's basketball to a 64-42 win over TCU in its conference lid-lifter, its 34^th consecutive win over the Horned Frogs, on Saturday afternoon at the Ferrell Center.

Baylor (10-3, 1-0 Big 12) won the fifth of its last six games, and stretched its winning streak over TCU to 34 straight games, using a furious finish that saw the Bears score the first 15 points of the fourth quarter and rip off a 17-0 run. Overall, the Bears outscored TCU 27-11 in the fourth quarter.

Bickle, a graduate student out of Cave Creek, Ariz., led the way for the Bears, notching her second consecutive double-figure scoring effort and her sixth of the year. She tied her career high with by going 3-of-4 from behind the arc, finishing with 19 points, seven rebounds and two assists on 8-of-12 shooting.

Sarah Andrews added 14 points, including three 3-pointers. Ja'Mee Asberry chipped in 16 points with four assists and three boards.

The Horned Frogs were forced into 23 turnovers and made just 14 baskets from the field, going 1 for 11 from 3-point range. Baylor won the battle of the boards, 35-29, featuring 11 offensive rebounds, while adding 26 points in the paint.

The Bears used a 10-0 run to take a 20-8 lead with eight minutes left in the second quarter, with the run featuring a pair of Bickle 3-pointers. The lead went to 26-18 at half, with TCU forced into 14 turnovers and just five made baskets, with Baylor shooting 40 percent with 16 points off those 14 TCU turnovers.

TCU (6-6, 0-1 Big 12) scored 11 of the first 15 points to open the second half to cut the lead to 30-29 with 6:10 left in the third. Baylor then held the Frogs to just two points over the remainder of the quarter to take a 37-31 lead into the fourth.

The Bears stretched the game open with a 17-0 run – including the first 15 points of the fourth quarter – using a pair of 3-pointers from Andrews and seven points from Bickle to help build a 21-point lead.

The Bears will return to action on Tuesday, traveling to face No. 20/18 Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., at 6 p.m. with the game broadcast live on ESPN+ and on the Baylor Sports Network from Learfield.

The Bears are 8-1 at home in 2022-23 and are 23-3 at home under Coach Nicki Collen.
Baylor is 10-0 when leading at halftime and 36-1 under Collen.
The Bears have outrebounded their foes in 197 of the last 211 games.
Baylor is 339-100 vs. Big 12 opponents all-time in the regular-season.
BU is 46-5 all-time against TCU and are 22-2 in series history vs. the Horned Frogs at home.
Baylor has won 34 straight games against the Horned Frogs.
For the 11th time this season, the Bears outrebounded their opponent, finishing with 38 as a team.
Baylor forced 23 turnovers by TCU, making it the sixth time this season the Bears have forced their opponents to turn the ball over at least 20 times.
The 22-point victory marked the eighth 20-plus point win for Baylor this season with seven of those on its home court.
Junior Sarah Andrews finished with 14 points, two rebounds and an assist.
Andrews reached double figures for the 27^th time in her career and the ninth time on the year.
Fifth-year Caitlin Bickle had a season-high 19 points to go with seven rebounds and three assists.
Bickle scored in double figures for the sixth time on the year, and for the second-consecutive game, and for the 16^th time in her career.
Graduate Ja'Mee Asberry had 16 points, four assists and three rebounds.
Asberry scored in double figures for the 54^th time in her career and the seventh time in 2022-23.
The Bears held TCU's top scorer, Tomi Taiwo, who was averaging 14.5 point per game coming into the contest, to just six points, which marked her second-lowest output of the season for the Horned Frogs.