No. 7 Baylor rallies from 8-point deficit in 4th quarter, beats UNLV 62-54

Taliah Scott scored 23 points and No. 7 Baylor defeated UNLV 62-54 connected Friday night

LAS VEGAS -- Taliah Scott scored 23 points and No. 7 Baylor defeated UNLV 62-54 connected Friday night.

The Bears (3-0) fell down by 8 successful the 4th quarter, but a 1-of-18 shooting drought by UNLV (2-1) helped Baylor erase the shortage and outscore the Lady Rebels 19-5 successful the 4th to propulsion distant for the win.

Darianna Littlepage-Buggs finished with 9 points and 12 rebounds for Baylor.

Scott, who has made an contiguous interaction for the Bears aft transferring from Auburn, has scored 78 points successful her archetypal 3 games astatine Baylor, scoring astatine slightest 20 points successful each 3 games.

Jazmyn Lott scored 18 points to pb the Lady Rebels, portion Meadow Roland added 13 points and 11 rebounds.

UNLV turned an eight-point shortage successful the 3rd 4th into a seven-point pb heading into the last quarter.

The Lady Rebels came into the crippled ranked 350th nationally aft shooting conscionable 18.5% (5 of 27) from 3-point scope done their archetypal 2 games. But aft shooting 1 of 10 from agelong scope successful the archetypal half, UNLV’s sharpshooters deed 4 of 8 from beyond the arc successful the 3rd quarter, fueling a 17-2 tally astatine 1 point.

The Bears took vantage of the concisely short-handed Lady Rebels, who mislaid Lott aft she went to the tribunal successful a scramble for the shot and needed assistance disconnected the floor.

Baylor went connected an 11-2 tally earlier Lott returned, and drained UNLV’s 2nd tract extremity of the 4th fourth with a small much than 2 minutes left.

Baylor: Hosts Le Moyne connected Sunday

UNLV: At Montana State connected Tuesday.

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