Utah Utes at Baylor Bears
· NCAA Women's Basketball
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Aaronette Vonleh scores 19, Baylor women beat No. 23 Utah 70-61
Fontleroy finished with a season-high 17 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high five steals and Walker added 12 points and a career-high 12 assists. Yaya Felder scored 12 points for Baylor (15-3, 5-1 Big 12).
Ines Vieira hit a jumper to cut Utah’s deficit to 60-59 with 3:46 left in the game. Vonleh answered with a layup 17 seconds later that sparked a 10-0 run to make it an 11-point game with 23 seconds remaining.
Gianna Kneepkens and Maty Wilke led Utah (13-4, 4-2) with 17 points apiece and Reese Ross scored 12.
Baylor led 43-32 almost 4 minutes into the second half before Wilke hit three 3s in a 16-4 run to give Utah a one-point lead with 41 seconds left in the third quarter. Walker made a layup to make it 49-48 going into the fourth and the Bears never again trailed.
Baylor — which had the sixth-most points amongst teams outside the AP Top 25 in the most recent poll — has won four games in a row and 11 of its last 12.
Fifth-year senior Sarah Andrews set the program record for games played (150) in the NCAA era, moving past Nina Davis. Suzie Snider Eppers (1973-77) appeared in 162 games when the Bears competed in the defunct Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW).
Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Baylor's leader this season in scoring (14.4 per game — on 53% shooting) and rebounding (10.1), served a one-game suspension. The 6-foot-1 junior was ejected in the second quarter of Saturday's 78-59 win Arizona State.
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Statistics
 UTAH |
BAY |
|
|---|---|---|
| 24-59 | FG | 29-54 |
| 41 | Field Goal % | 54 |
| 7-23 | 3PT | 5-17 |
| 30 | Three Point % | 29 |
| 6-9 | FT | 7-9 |
| 67 | Free Throw % | 78 |
| 31 | Rebounds | 29 |
| 9 | Offensive Rebounds | 4 |
| 22 | Defensive Rebounds | 25 |
| 16 | Assists | 22 |
| 8 | Steals | 10 |
| 2 | Blocks | 5 |
| 21 | Turnovers | 16 |
| 1 | Team Turnovers | 1 |
| 21 | Total Turnovers | 16 |
| 0 | Technical Fouls | 0 |
| 0 | Total Technical Fouls | 0 |
| 16 | Points Off Turnovers | 25 |
| 2 | Fast Break Points | 8 |
| 28 | Points in Paint | 44 |
| 15 | Fouls | 12 |
| 2 | Largest Lead | 11 |
Game Information
Location: Waco, TX
Attendance: 3,216 | Capacity:
2025-26 Big 12 Conference Standings
| TEAM | CONF | GB | OVER |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCU | 15-3 | - | 32-6 |
| West Virginia | 14-4 | 1 | 28-7 |
| Baylor | 13-5 | 2 | 25-9 |
| Texas Tech | 12-6 | 3 | 26-8 |
| Oklahoma State | 12-6 | 3 | 24-10 |
| Colorado | 11-7 | 4 | 22-12 |
| Iowa State | 10-8 | 5 | 22-10 |
| Utah | 10-8 | 5 | 19-13 |
| Arizona State | 9-9 | 6 | 24-11 |
| BYU | 9-9 | 6 | 26-12 |
| Kansas | 8-10 | 7 | 22-14 |
| Kansas State | 8-10 | 7 | 19-18 |
| Cincinnati | 6-12 | 9 | 11-20 |
| Arizona | 3-15 | 12 | 12-18 |
| UCF | 3-15 | 12 | 11-19 |
| Houston | 1-17 | 14 | 7-23 |