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“Around the NCAAW Weekly” highlights the notable events of the week. Check out the milestones, surprises, best games and outstanding performances for games played through Sunday, March 14:
Conference championships
No. 6 Baylor Lady Bears
NaLyssa Smith was named Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player as the Lady Bears took home the title with a 76-50 win over the No. 17 West Virginia Mountaineers on Sunday.
Baylor won the Big 12 outright for the 10th time and has 23 total Big 12 titles now between the regular season and tournament. It has won 17 games in a row.
On Saturday, the Lady Bears defeated the Texas Longhorns in the semifinals and held superstar Charli Collier to just three points and one rebound. Collier amassed just 17 points against Baylor this season after three meetings.
TELEVISION: The game will be televised on TNT with Spero Dedes and Brendan Haywood calling the action and Lauren Shehadi reporting from the sideline.
RADIO: The game will air live on Beaver Sports Radio Network with Mike Parker calling the action. It can also be heard online at this link.
QUICKLY: Oregon State won the Pac-12 Tournament for the first time in history to earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament . The Beavers beat Top 25 teams on back-to-back nights at the Pac-12 Tournament (No. 25 Oregon and No. 23 Colorado); the previous time Oregon State defeated a ranked team at a neutral site was Dec. 29, 1992 (93-79 over No. 23 BYU in Portland, Ore.) . Ethan Thompson was selected to the All-Pac-12 First Team . Thompson holds the Oregon State record with 123 career starts; Gary Payton is second with 120 . Zach Reichle leads the team with an assist/turnover ratio of 2.18 . Warith Alatishe became the first-ever Beaver to be named the Pac-12 Tournament Most Outstandin
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For a head coach who preaches mindfulness with his team, in a moment when his players celebrated amidst confetti raining down at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City on Saturday, Shaka Smart took a knee and spent a few seconds taking it all in.
The No. 13 Texas Longhorns had just pulled off a 91-86 victory over the No. 12 Oklahoma State Cowboys to win the first Big 12 Tournament title in program history, producing the pinnacle moment for Smart, whose competence and job security were questioned at nearly every twist and turn by the Longhorns over the last several seasons.