Baylor hang on to beat Notre Dame 82-81 for NCAA women’s basketball title Globe_Sports
“They just kept doing what we’ve been taught to do, and that’s guard people,” Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. “We just beat the defending national champions. That team is so good, so talented. You’re going to see those guys play at the next level. Wow.”
The Lady Bears won their first championship in seven years. Mulkey and Baylor have won titles in 2005, 2012 and 2019. The 2012 championship game also pitted the Lady Bears against Muffet McGraw’s Irish in the last meeting of two female coaches for the title. Ogunbowale led the charge again Sunday, scoring 17 of her 31 points in the second half. That included a buzzer-beating 3 at the end of the third quarter, sparking an 11-0 Notre Dame run.“It just wasn’t meant to be. It’s going to be a hard pill to swallow,” said Ogunbowale, who finished with 155 points in the tournament – the fourth most all-time. “But things happen. I had a fun, great career here at Notre Dame.
“The worst part of the game was Lauren Cox,” she added. “We had control of that game from the start to the time she went off the floor. We had to regroup. For us to win was a miracle in itself when you lose a player of that calibre.” With the game tied at 80, Jackson drove with her right hand and hit a layup that bounced off the rim before dropping in.
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