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Baylor beats Oklahoma for 55th straight Big 12 win

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WACO, Texas (AP) NaLyssa Smith scored 22 points to lead five Baylor players in double figures and the No. 2 Lady Bears won their 55th consecutive Big 12 game, beating Oklahoma 101-69 on Saturday.

The defending national champion Lady Bears (25-1, 14-0 Big 12) moved within one win of their 10th consecutive regular-season conference title with four games left in the regular season.

Te'a Cooper added 16 points and 11 assists for the Lady Bears. Lauren Cox had 15 points and 11 rebounds, Juicy Landrum scored 14 points, and Moon Ursin had 10

Gabby Gregory had 30 points with five 3-pointers to lead Oklahoma (12-14, 5-9), which lost its fourth game in a row. Taylor Robertson had 16 points with four 3s, and Madi Williams 15 points.

Smith, Cooper, Cox and Landrum were all in double figures by halftime, when the Lady Bears had a 63-27 lead.

It was their biggest-scoring half ever in a Big 12 game, and came after a 36-point outburst in the first quarter that was their highest-scoring quarter ever in a conference game.

Baylor also extended the nation's longest active home winning streak with its 54th win in a row at the Ferrell Center.

Three days after Kim Mukley became the fastest Division I coach - man or woman - to reach 600 career wins in a victory at Texas Tech, she got No. 601 in her 701st game. All of those have been in 20 seasons at Baylor.

Oklahoma's 18 wins are the most by any opponent against Mulkey, but the Baylor coach has a 27-18 series advantage and exactly 100 more career wins than Sherri Coale, who is 501-278 in her 24th season as the Oklahoma coach.

BIG PICTURE

Oklahoma: The Sooners are the only Big 12 team without a senior on the roster, and trailed by 19 in the first quarter. ... Robertson's four 3-pointers extended her single-season school record and national-leading total to 120. She is three shy of matching the Big 12 record that has stood since 2002-03.

Baylor: The Lady Bears made 14 of their first 16 shots in the game, and shot 62% (44 of 71) in the game. They had 33 assists on the 44 made field goals. Baylor was already at 50 points midway through the second quarter after a segment when Cox scored on a pass from Smith, who had just scored on a pass from Cox. Smith was 10-of-12 shooting, and that was her only assist.

UP NEXT

Oklahoma is home Wednesday night to play Kansas, a team the Sooners beat in overtime earlier this month.

Baylor plays Monday night at West Virginia, who lost by 40 in Waco on Jan. 18.

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