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Smith 35 points as No. 5 Baylor women clinch Big 12 outright

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Smith 35 points as No. 5 Baylor women clinch Big 12 outright

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NaLyssa Smith had a career-high 35 factors with 12 rebounds in her senior day sport for fifth-ranked Baylor, and the Bears clinched the outright Large 12 girls’s title with an 82-57 win over Texas Tech within the regular-season finale Sunday.

The Bears (25-5, 15-3 Large 12) have been assured at the very least a share of their twelfth consecutive Large 12 title and thirteenth general after an 87-62 win at ninth-ranked Iowa State final Monday. Baylor needed to beat Texas Tech for the outright championship after the Cyclones ended their common season with win Saturday evening at West Virginia.

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Bryn Gerlich had 12 factors and Taylah Thomas 12 for Texas Tech (11-18, 4-14), which as a workforce wasn’t in a position to outscore Smith by herself till the second half. Smith had 22 factors at halftime, when Baylor had a 45-22 lead. Vivian Grey completed with 10 factors, held to half of her season common.

Baylor ahead NaLyssa Smith (1) shoots in opposition to Texas Tech defenders Tatum Veitenheimer (32), Ella Tofaeono (1) and Vivian Grey (12) through the first half of an NCAA faculty basketball sport in Waco, Texas, Sunday, March 6, 2022.
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After Smith’s two free throws within the opening minute, Tech tied the sport at 2-2 earlier than Smith and Grey traded jumpers for a 4-4 tie. The Bears then constructed a four-point lead earlier than Smith’s fastbreak layup that started her stretch of 12 consecutive factors over a four-minute span.

Grey’s free throw with 8:07 left within the third quarter was Tech’s twenty third level, yet another than Smith on the time. Smith instantly adopted with a layup for her twenty fourth level earlier than the Purple Raiders had consecutive discipline targets for the primary time within the sport although that 22-point deficit was the closest they might be the remainder of the sport.

A day after the reigning nationwide champion Baylor males celebrated a share of their second consecutive Large 12 title with a win at residence ver Iowa State, extra inexperienced and gold confetti fell onto the court docket for a championship celebration. The ladies have been introduced their newest trophy on a stage with an extended desk in entrance of that with the 12 earlier trophies on show.

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Jaden Owens had 13 factors on 5-of-5 taking pictures, together with three 3-pointers, for Baylor. Smith completed together with her twenty first double-double this season and forty ninth in her 127 profession video games.

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Texas Tech: The Purple Raiders have been coming off an 83-79 win over TCU of their residence finale, after dropping 10 of their earlier 11 video games.

Baylor: After successful the final 11 Large 12 titles underneath Kim Mulkey, Baylor misplaced their first two convention video games underneath new coach Nicki Collen. However the one loss since for the Bears was when Oklahoma hit a buzzer-beating shot. They carry a 10-game successful streak into the postseason.

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Baylor might transfer into the highest 4 for the primary time this season. Fourth-ranked Louisville is coming off a surprising loss to Miami within the quarterfinal spherical of the Atlantic Coast Convention event

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The Large 12 event in Kansas Metropolis. Texas Tech, the No. 8 seed, performs Oklahoma State on Wednesday evening. That winner of that first-round sport faces Baylor in a quarterfinal sport Thursday.

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Ranking 134 college football teams after conference title games: Boise State’s climb continues

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Ranking 134 college football teams after conference title games: Boise State’s climb continues

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams.

The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff was an absolute success.

Regardless of how the bracket plays out, it has already accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do. More regular-season games had more stakes. New faces made the field. The first-round games on campus will be electric. And the field appears wide open. It’s everything we wanted. Good job, everyone.

As for the bracket makeup itself, I don’t necessarily agree with every seed, but the committee got the right group. SMU was the correct decision over Alabama, at least in the current system where conference championships remain very important. Alabama’s wins were better, but its losses were worse. In the end, pulling a championship game loser out in favor of a three-loss team with bad losses would have upended the point of conference races. It was a close call. It was the right call.

Coming off conference championship weekend and ahead of the postseason, there was a shakeup at the top of this week’s penultimate edition of the Athletic 134.

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My philosophy is to reward conference championship game winners and not ding the losers too much, except when they play each other. As a result, I have the same top seven as the committee. I said a week ago that a strong performance against Oregon would move Penn State above Notre Dame, and that’s what the Nittany Lions delivered in a 45-37 loss. Georgia’s second win against Texas jumped the Bulldogs up to No. 2, but I can’t drop the Longhorns much for an overtime loss.

The bottom end of the top 10 is different from the committee’s choices. Boise State and Arizona State move up to No. 8 and No. 9 with dominant championship wins against top-25 teams. SMU fell to No. 10 as a result of its loss to Clemson, but only because it was jumped by two other teams that played. While Arizona State has a blowout win against a Wyoming team that gave Boise State problems, the Sun Devils’ two regular season losses, compared to Boise State’s one last-second loss at No. 1 Oregon, keeps the Broncos ahead.

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In defense of the College Football Playoff’s funky seeding format

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Like SMU, Indiana fell back two places because it was jumped by two teams that had lopsided wins against top-25 opponents. Indiana has no such wins. The Hoosiers are still in my field, but their lack of quality wins left them open to getting jumped. Alabama remains the last team out of my 12-team CFP field.

Clemson moves up to No. 16 with its last-second win against SMU, but the Tigers stay behind South Carolina because of their loss to the Gamecocks a week ago. Army jumps up to No. 22 with a 35-14 win against Tulane, and UNLV falls to No. 24, jumped by Clemson and Army.

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Tulane remains at No. 30 after the AAC title game loss to Army. Sun Belt champion Marshall jumps up to No. 40 after a 31-3 win against Louisiana.

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Jacksonville State climbs to No. 60 with a 52-12 win against Western Kentucky in the CUSA title game, and Ohio moves up to No. 73 after beating Miami (Ohio) to win the MAC. The Bobcats stay behind Kentucky because of their 41-6 loss to the Wildcats in Week 4.

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The Athletic 134 series is part of a partnership with Allstate. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence. Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.

(Photo: Loren Orr / Getty Images)

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Bengals snap losing streak after Cowboys' head-scratching blunder on 'Monday Night Football'

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Bengals snap losing streak after Cowboys' head-scratching blunder on 'Monday Night Football'

The Cincinnati Bengals have had some crushing defeats this season, but something finally went their way to cash a 23-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys on “Monday Night Football.”

The Bengals snapped a three-game losing streak, moving to 5-8 on the season. Meanwhile, the Cowboys’ win streak of two games comes to a halt and they are also 5-8 on the year. 

At the two-minute warning, the Bengals were in their own zone after a potential game-winning drive went awry. Facing fourth-and-27, they had no choice but to punt, and things got much worse when Cal Adomitis blocked the punt which should’ve given the Cowboys perfect field position to take the lead late in the game. 

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) throws a pass against the Dallas Cowboys in the first quarter at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: (Tim Heitman-Imagn Images)

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Then, that big Bengals break came for Zac Taylor’s squad. 

Amani Oruwariye thought it was smart to try and recover the bouncing ball as it was making its way downfield, but he was unable to field it cleanly. 

Since it touched Oruwariye, the Bengals could recover and regain possession, and that’s exactly what happened as Maema Njongmeta fell on the ball at the Cincinnati 43-yard line to give Joe Burrow and his crew another shot at taking the lead. 

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Just three plays later, Burrow found ol’ reliable, Ja’Marr Chase, on a short pass where he made a Cowboys’ cornerback miss, and he was off to the races for a 40-yard touchdown to make it 27-20 after the extra point. 

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That capped another “Monday Night Football” highlight reel for Chase, who finished the game with 177 yards on 14 catches with two touchdowns, which also included the first for the Bengals on the night. 

CeeDee Lamb scores touchdown

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (88) makes a touchdown over the Cincinnati Bengals in the first quarter during Monday Night Football at AT&T Stadium in Arlington,Texas on Monday, December 9, 2024. (IMAGN)

Cooper Rush and the Cowboys did have enough time to move downfield for a potential game-tying drive. But on fourth-and-7 near midfield, Rush overshot Jake Ferguson and the ball hit the turf, sealing Dallas’ fate as a loss. 

CeeDee Lamb, who scored the game’s first touchdown and had 93 yards on six catches, was jumping up and down because he was wide open in the middle of the field. Rush didn’t see him, and thus the result. 

Burrow’s night was another spectacular one, as he went 33-for-44 for 369 yards with three touchdowns – the other a catch-and-run by running back Chase Brown in the first half – as well as an interception.

For the Cowboys, a positive trend continued for Rico Dowdle despite the loss, as the young running back rushed for a game-high 131 yards on just 18 carries. Since taking over the lead role in the backfield, Dowdle has really turned it on late in the season. 

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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase (1) and wide receiver Tee Higgins (5) celebrate Chase’s touchdown in the first quarter of Dallas Cowboys during Monday Night Football at AT&T Stadium in Arlington,Texas on Monday, December 9, 2024. (IMAGN)

Both of these teams might not be in playoff position with four games remaining, but a primetime thriller was seen at AT&T Stadium where the Bengals finally tasted victory again. 

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Stephen Barbee resigns as football coach at Long Beach Poly

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Stephen Barbee resigns as football coach at Long Beach Poly

Stephen Barbee has resigned after seven seasons as football coach at Long Beach Poly.

That opens up a job at a school that has won 20 Southern Section championships.

It is a tougher job than in a previous era, because private schools have been taking away players and attendance boundaries play a major role.

But Poly is Poly, with lots of talent around campus.

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