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The Longhorn Network's Greg Swindell and Kevin Dunn discuss Texas' 2-1 win over Baylor and preview the Big 12 Tournament.

ESPN.com Big 12 blogger David Ubben says Baylor QB Nick Florence of South Garland, Oklahoma State WR Josh Stewart of Denton Guyer and Texas RB Joe Bergeron of North Mesquite are three players to watch in the Big 12 this year.

SMU's visit to Baylor, which opens the college football season for both, will happen a day later than scheduled to accommodate national TV.

The non-conference game will instead take place at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 2 and will be aired on FSN.

In addition, Baylor's road opener at Louisiana-Monroe switches to 7 p.m. Sept. 21 and will be carried by either ESPN or ESPN2. The game was originally scheduled for Sept. 22.

SMU ended last season with a 28-6 victory over Pitt in the BBVA Compass Bowl. Baylor won a barnburner over Washington in the Valero Alamo Bowl, 67-56.

The NCAA accepted Baylor's self-imposed penalties for women's and men's basketball recruiting violations. Read the full story here.

DENVER -- Notre Dame's trio of senior starters shrunk in the shadow of Brittney Griner.

The Irish lost the national championship for the second straight season Tuesday night, beaten by Baylor and its superstar center 80-61.

A year ago, Notre Dame let a late lead slip away in a six-point loss to Texas A&M in the title game, so they were eager for atonement. But the seniors who transformed Notre Dame's program and shook up the Big East during their careers in South Bend went out with a whimper.

Devereaux Peters was in foul trouble all night -- exactly what she said she couldn't afford to do against Griner -- and finished with seven points and three rebounds.

"Not really what you want to do the last game of your career," said Peters, who logged just 15 minutes.

Leading scorer Natalie Novosel missed all 11 of her shots, every one of them seemingly altered by Griner. Novosel scored five points, 10 below her average and 23 fewer than she had against Baylor in the WNIT final in November.

"It was just not my night," Novosel said.

Brittany Mallory, the shooting star on Notre Dame's semifinal victory against Connecticut, scored three points and injured her left shoulder on a hard fall to the floor in the final minutes.

"It's such a tough way for their career to end," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said, sobbing.

Notre Dame's senior class had 117 wins, but Griner, with 26 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks, barely gave them a chance at No. 118.

The Irish hung tough for 25 minutes even as Griner was getting her buckets, boards and blocks in bunches. They had trimmed an early 14-point deficit to 42-39 when Peters picked up her fourth foul on a hard pick on Odyssey Simms and took a seat.

"It was very winnable," Novosel said. "We were lucky at halftime to only be down six. We wanted to come out and be the aggressors in the second half. That didn't happen."

Baylor, the first team ever to go 40-0, closed with a spectacular 38-22 run.

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Baylor coach Kim Mulkey and star Brittney Griner are ready to take on Georgia Tech on Saturday in the NCAA women's tournament Sweet 16.

Baylor head coach Scott Drew discusses Friday’s matchup against Xavier in the Sweet 16.

Baylor coach Scott Drew joins "The Scott Van Pelt Show" to discuss his team's bold uniform choice and the rise of Brady Heslip.

Baylor faces Florida in the second round of the NCAA tournament Tuesday. Here's a look inside the Lady Bears' practice with head coach Kim Mulkey.

Brittney Griner scored 13 points and blocked three shots as the Lady Bears advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Brady Heslip made nine 3-pointers and finished with 27 points Saturday to lift Baylor to an 80-63 victory over Colorado in the South Regional.

Heslip, a transfer from Boston College who grew up in Canada, helped break open a tight game with a pair of 3-pointers that were part of a 14-0 run and gave the third-seeded Bears (29-7) a 75-60 lead.

Baylor made the regional finals for the second time in three years under coach Scott Drew. The Bears will play the winner of Sunday's game between Xavier and Lehigh.

Pierre Jackson had 13 points and 10 assists for Baylor.

Freshman Askia Booker had 15 points for 11th-seeded Colorado (24-12), which saw its winning streak in the Pac-12 and NCAA tournament end at five.

Last year, Baylor won the Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles, and all the league chatter heading into the NCAA tournament was about the Lady Bears. Then Texas A&M beat Baylor in the Elite Eight and ended up winning the national title.

This year, the Aggies are the defending champions. And all the Big 12 talk going into the NCAA tournament is about … Baylor again. The Lady Bears repeated both their conference titles, the tournament crown coming after a 23-point spanking of the Aggies in the final last Saturday.

With that, Texas A&M essentially bid adieu to the Big 12; the school joins the SEC, along with Missouri, next school year. However Gary Blair's program could add one last feather to the Big 12's cap with another Final Four appearance. This time, the Aggies won't have to go through Baylor to do that; both teams would have to make the national final to meet again.

But to get to Denver, Texas A&M might have to overcome the team it beat in last season's national-championship game, Notre Dame, as they're both in the Raleigh region. But that's all a ways down the road.

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If Baylor wins the NCAA women's basketball title, President Barack Obama will have picked the tournament champion for the second time in three years.

Obama tabbed Baylor to beat Notre Dame in the championship game in his annual women's bracket selections, which were unveiled Friday.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri is leaving the Big 12 on top.

Kim English capped a phenomenal conference tournament with 19 points, Phil Pressey added 15 points and eight assists, and the fifth-ranked Tigers beat No. 12 Baylor 90-75 on Saturday night to win their second championship in the past four years.

The Tigers (30-4), who led from start to finish, will head off to the Southeastern Conference next year savoring a title in coach Frank Haith's first season in charge.

English wound up 29 of 40 from the field in a virtuoso performance in Kansas City. Michael Dixon added 17 points, and Ricardo Ratliffe and Marcus Denmon had 15 each.

Perry Jones III led Baylor (27-7) with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Brady Heslip scored 14 and Deuce Bello came off the bench to add 13 for the Bears, who were turned away short of their first conference tournament title since 1950.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The ticker-tape fell from the ceiling of old Municipal Auditorium, and Brittney Griner and the rest of her Baylor teammates hoisted another trophy as Big 12 tournament champions. Then they filed out of the arena and right back to the locker room.

This wasn't a party, after all.

This was business.

The top-ranked Lady Bears used a season-high 26 points from Odyssey Sims to offset a quiet game by Griner, her All-American teammate, and Baylor cruised to a 73-50 victory over Texas A&M (No. 14 ESPN/USA Today, No. 22 AP) to wrap up its second straight championship and fourth overall.

Now, it's on to bigger things.

"We've been winning all season. We've been successful. This is great," Sims said, "but now we're focused on six games. That's what we're striving for."

That's how many games it will take to win the program's second national title, and the number it will take to become the first men's or women's team in major college basketball to go 40-0.

"These next six games, you know -- we enjoy the celebration. We love the hats and everything," Griner said, "but we have six more games."

Griner finished with a season-low 11 points and three rebounds, while Destiny Williams had 12 points and 11 boards. Jordan Madden contributed 10 points.

Still, Baylor (34-0) beat the Aggies for the third time this year, and also beat them to win the conference tournament in 2009 and last season. Of course, Texas A&M managed to flip the script and beat the Lady Bears in the NCAA tournament en route to the title.