. . World News – USA – Defending Champion No.. 4 Baylor falls to No.. 16 Arkansas creates top 5 rankings

The No.. 4 The Baylor Bears women’s basketball team couldn’t beat No. 16 Arkansas Sunday night, 83-78. It’s a rare loss for the program, which is technically the defending champions as of April 2019. They barely escaped from South Florida (67-62) on Tuesday.

The result will force those who fill in the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll to make many tough decisions ahead of Monday’s release.

The bears (2-1) followed a basket (38-36) at halftime and slowly fell further in the third quarter. Arkansas’ largest lead was 10 points. The bears cut into it to force last-minute attempts at heroism, but couldn’t make it.

Queen Egbo, who committed a foul early in the third quarter, hurt Baylor’s cause. She entered the competition with an average of 25. 0 points, 11. 0 rebounds and 3. 0 blocks per game. In 11 minutes on the court, she had six points, seven rebounds and one assist.

Guard DiJonai Carrington, a graduate transfer from Stanford, carried Baylor off the bank. She had 24 points on the 8-of-16 shooting and added five rebounds. NaLyssa Smith scored 16 points with seen rebounds, along with two other bears for a team high, two steals and two blocks. Moon Ursin scored 14 points, making two out of three 3-point attempts with three rebounds and four assists.

Baylor was statistically better at controlling the boards, 51-38; share the ball with assists, 24-5; and shoot at 43. 7 percent. But they had 22 turnovers to Arkansas 20 and six steals to 10 of their opponent. The Razorbacks fired 39 shots from the free throw line and sank 30 of them.

Arkansas (4-1) has four games behind them on five days last week and only loses to No.. 14 Maryland in a 115-98 offensive storefront. Four starters entered the competition in double digits on average and all of them kept up that trend in the Baylor game.

Amber Ramirez scored 23 points on 7-of-14 and added six rebounds. Chelsea Dungee scored 14 and hit 10 of 12 free throws. And Makayla Daniels scored 16 points with three rebounds, an assist and a steal. Destiny Slocum scored 14, hit 8 of 12 free throws, and added seven rebounds and two team-level steals.

The new top 5 teams will look very different after the events of the week. It could be the first big top-end leaderboard shakeup since before the 2019-20 season and there is a lot of consideration.

No.. 1 South Carolina lost their first game in more than a year on Thursday, falling to No.. 8 N.. . C.. . State, 54-46. Though they bounced back to beat No.. 23 Iowa State, 83-65, on Sunday the Gamecocks lose the top spot with the defeat.

No.. 2 Stanford returned to the pitch with two straight games this weekend in Las Vegas where they will move through December. 21 due to local community’s COVID-19 restrictions. They defeated UNLV (101-54) and Pac-12 opponents Washington (83-50).

No.. 3 UConn hasn’t played a game yet. Due to a positive COVID-19 test in his team, the activities were interrupted and only brought back to the field next weekend.

No.. 5 Louisville is where things get really interesting. The cardinals made it to No.. 20 DePaul on Friday night and set a school record for points on a demolition of 116-75. They were 101 points from the start of the last quarter and are tapering off. DePaul came out averaging 109. 5 points per game.

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The Wildcats have now lost three games in a row, which will surely push them out of the rankings on Monday.

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