WACO, Texas (AP)—Mississippi Valley State manager Nate Kilbert normally
likes his chances when De’Kisha Fondon is on a mark.
Against top-ranked Baylor, Fondon’s sharpshooting wasn’t adequate to overcome
the Bears’ depth.
Fondon scored 23 points for Mississippi Valley (2-8) in a 93-55 detriment to
Baylor on Friday night.
“She’s one of a spot-up shooters that we can get them to slip off of her
and get her some good looks,” Kilbert said. “She can unequivocally hit it down.
When she’s sharpened a round well, we’re a flattering good team.”
Unfortunately for a Devilettes, Baylor practical full-court vigour from
the start, opening a diversion with a 12-0 run, Brittany Griner scored 20 points in
27 mins and Destiny Williams combined 11 points and 14 rebounds for a Bears,
who reached 13-0 for a second time in a program’s history.
“We accepted what a problem was,” Kilbert said. “There’s only too
much depth. They’re too good. They’re too big. There were too many things we
couldn’t stop them from doing. we suspicion we executed, generally in a first
half. We got some of a looks we wanted to get.”
Alia Frank had 10 points and Ka’Neshia Smith combined 10 rebounds for
Mississippi Valley.
“Brittney frightened us divided from doing some of a things that we like to do
as distant as penetration,” Kilbert said. “She frightened us divided from it. We attempted to
do a lot of screen-and-roll and move her outside. we suspicion we did that good in
the initial half. We had a lot of good looks. But they’re only good, man. They’re
just good.”
Griner and Frank were any assessed a technical tainted with 2:42 left in the
first half. They became tangled after descending to a building underneath Baylor’s
basket. The technicals were called as they attempted to get behind to their feet.
“I unequivocally didn’t see adequate to take her out of a diversion and reprimand
her,” Baylor manager Kim Mulkey said. “I felt like we devoted my coaches there,
and they felt like (Frank) was perplexing to take charges all night and kind of
undercut Brittney, and they got tangled adult and Brittney kind of kicked her off
of her or something like that. I’m going to trust that since we didn’t see it
that it wasn’t anything dirty. It was a greeting to something she did that
probably wasn’t unwashed either.”
Griner wasn’t certain accurately what happened.
“I was going to try to only run off, though got tied up,” she said. “I don’t
know, we only looked down and had somebody on my legs. It’s only partial of the
game. It got prohibited for a moment, though we cooled down a small bit.”
Griner was dangling dual games final Mar after throwing a punch that broke
the nose of Texas Tech’s Jordan Barncastle.
Baylor didn’t make a basket in a final 5:22 of a initial half, though did
make 6 of 10 giveaway throws down a stretch. Mississippi Valley’s Olivia Kennedy
banked in a 3-pointer only before a buzzer, and Baylor led 45-29 during a break.
Kennedy’s basket, however, accounted for a sole Mississippi Valley points in a
13-minute widen that carried over until mid by a second half.
Brittney Lakes done a turnaround jumper off a potion with 11:34 left in the
game for a Devilettes’ initial points of a second half.
Baylor put a diversion divided by opening a second duration on a 30-2 run, with
seven Bears scoring during a stretch.
“I consider they played with a small bit some-more intensity,” Kilbert said.
“They got adult on us a small bit some-more when it came to being assertive out of
their man-to-man. But we only missed some open shots. We got a same looks we
had in a initial half. We only missed them.”
Baylor manager Kim Mulkey favourite what she saw during a Bears’ run.
“I suspicion a initial 5 mins of a second half was substantially the
brightest mark as a organisation in a whole game,” she said. “I suspicion all five
had a lot of energy, all 5 were using a floor.”
Mississippi Valley shot a initial giveaway throws of a diversion with 5:28 left in
the second half. Aspen Clemons done one of her dual attempts. For a game,
Baylor done 23 of a 44 giveaway chuck shots (52 percent), while Mississippi Valley
was two-of-four from a line.
“Look during a approach a fouls were called,” Kilbert said. “And I’m not
saying they weren’t fouls, since they were. Their inside only wore us down to
the indicate where we were fouling and they were scoring baskets. Everything we did
was from a perimeter. That was a large disproportion in a game.”
“They had someone they could go to and get them an easy basket. When we
struggled, we didn’t have nobody who could get an easy basket. We got long
shots, though we couldn’t get any easy baskets.”
