GAMEDAY Womens Basketball
Texas 68, Baylor 55
Associated Press
WACO, Texas - DeYona Gaston grabbed 11 rebounds and was one of four Texas players to score 13 points to help the 25th-ranked Longhorns beat Baylor 68-55.
Shaylee Gonzales, Rori Harmon and Sonya Morris all scored 13 as well for Texas. Taylor Jones added 10 points, seven rebounds and three blocks.
Texas (14-6, 5-2 Big 12), which beat then-No. 23 Kansas and then-No. 15 Iowa State last week to cap a stretch of 10 wins in 11 games, bounced back from a 68-64 loss at Texas Tech on Wednesday. The Longhorns moved into a second-place tie with Iowa State - a game behind Oklahoma - in the conference standings.
Harmon, who also had six rebounds and six assists, lost the ball and fell to the ground as she drove into the lane with 3:35 to play. The 5-foot-6 guard - who last season became the first freshman in program history to be earn All-America honors (honorable mention) - remained down for a couple minutes before gingerly walking off the court with an apparent knee injury. She did not return.
The Longhorns led 24-22 at intermission despite shooting 28% (9 of 23) from the field and going 0 for 8 from 3-point range. Texas scored 28 third-quarter points and shot 19 of 34 (55.9%) from the field over the final 20 minutes.
Sarah Andrews hit four 3-pointers and led Baylor (13-6, 4-3) with 19 points. Ja'Mee Asberry scored 11 of her 13 points in the second half.
Andrews scored eight points in a 10-4 spurt that cut Baylor's deficit to five points midway through the third quarter, but the Bears missed four consecutive shots over the next three minutes. Gaston hit a jumper to cap a 10-1 run, giving the Longhorns a 49-35 lead with 1:44 left in the quarter.
Asberry hit a 3 with 9:25 to play and made another less than two minutes later to pull Baylor to 56-52, but Khadija Faye and Gaston scored before Morris made a pair of baskets and Gonzales and Holle followed with baskets to give the Longhorns a 13-point lead with a minute remaining.
The Bears went 0 for 8 from the field and committed four turnovers after Asberry's 3-pointer with 7:35 left.
Baylor lost back-to-back games last week - 70-65 to Oklahoma State at home and 74-65 at West Virginia - and fell out of The Associated Press Top-25 Poll for the first time since 2004. The Bears beat Kansas State by 21 points on Wednesday.
January 22, 2023
| Texas | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| D. Gaston | F | 32 | 5-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| K. Faye | C | 6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| S. Gonzales | G | 36 | 4-9 | 4-4 | 1-5 | 4-6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| R. Harmon | G | 36 | 5-11 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| S. Morris | G | 26 | 6-13 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 2-7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| S. Holle | 22 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| T. Jones | 21 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
| A. Muhammad | 20 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 199 | 28-66 (.424) |
10-16 (.625) |
2-12 (.167) |
19-48 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 68 | |
| Baylor | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| C. Bickle | F | 37 | 2-10 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 2-10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| S. Andrews | G | 38 | 5-16 | 5-6 | 4-9 | 0-2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 19 |
| J. Asberry | G | 33 | 4-12 | 3-4 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| J. Owens | G | 28 | 0-5 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| D. Littlepage-Buggs | G | 18 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| B. Fontleroy | 22 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| J. Van Gytenbeek | 20 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| E. Porter | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| A. Blackwell | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Totals | 199 | 18-58 (.310) |
12-18 (.667) |
7-20 (.350) |
14-34 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 17 | 55 | |
Officials: Lisa Jones, Brian Hall, Roy Gulbeyan
Attendance: 5,593
