OSU's Season Comes To An End Against No. 4 Baylor

Friday, March 11

Kansas City, Mo.

1:30 P.M.

Oklahoma State University

9-20,3-15Big 12

Baylor

26-5,15-3Big 12

Oklahoma St.

Baylor

March 11, 2022 | Cowgirl Basketball

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big 12 player of the year NaLyssa Smith scored 15 points, Baylor shut out Oklahoma State into the second quarter and the No. 4 Bears rolled the rest of the way to a 76-36 victory Friday in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament.

The Cowgirls (9-20), playing their final game under longtime coach Jim Littell, missed their first 13 field-goal attempts, fell behind 41-14 by halftime and never made a run. They wound up shooting 22.8% for the game.

Oklahoma State's leading scorer, Lauren Fields, went 0-for-11 from the field and finished without a point, while Kassidy De Lapp finished with a team-best nine points.
If the outcome wasn't preordained, it certainly was decided within the first 10 minutes.

The Cowgirls missed all their first-quarter shots, turned the ball over seven times and even missed both of their free throws in going scoreless for the first 10-plus minutes. And to make matters worse, Baylor was cruising along with big contributions from just about everyone. The defending champs built a 23-0 lead.

It was a tough end to Littell's tenure in Stillwater, where he began as an assistant and took over the head job when Kurt Budke and another assistant, Miranda Serna, were killed in a plane crash during a recruiting trip in November 2011.

Littell led the Cowgirls to a 22-12 record and won the WNIT that difficult season, then took them to six NCAA Tournaments over the next 10 years. Just last year, Littell was voted Big 12 coach of the year after the Cowgirls went 19-9 and advanced to the second of the NCAA tourney, losing to eventual national champion Stanford.