RV/24 BAYLOR BEARS (11-3, 1-1 Big 12)Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12Head Coach: Nicki Collen (Marquette, 1998)Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) RV/24 BAYLOR (11-3, 1-0 Big 12) vs COLORADO BUFFALOES (10-3, 1-1 Big 12)Jan. 4, 2025 • 2:00 p.m. CTWaco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500) • In Netty’s first game in the green and gold, the senior turned in 16 points in just shy of 21 minutes. […]
RV/24 BAYLOR BEARS (11-3, 1-1 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Nicki Collen (Marquette, 1998) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
RV/24 BAYLOR (11-3, 1-0 Big 12) vs COLORADO BUFFALOES (10-3, 1-1 Big 12) Jan. 4, 2025 • 2:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500) • In Netty’s first game in the green and gold, the senior turned in 16 points in just shy of 21 minutes. Shooting 6-of-8 from the field, the Oregon native sunk her third-career 3-pointer, making one in each season at Colorado. |
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COLORADO BUFFALOES (10-3, 1-1 Big 12) Location: Boulder, Colo. Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: JD Payne (Saint Mary’s (CA), 1999) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Game notes
• Netty scored her Baylor-best point total against LA Tech with 21 and had a career high rebound total against New Orleans with 12.
• Vonleh had just the fifth double-double of her career in Game No. 3 against East Texas A&M, tabbing 18 points and 11 rebounds.
• Currently No. 67 in the NET, Colorado has a conference win over then-No. 14 West Virginia, 65-60, before a loss at TCU as the first of two games in their Texas roadtrip.
• With Colorado back in the Big 12 Conference after departing as a charter member in 2011, the Bears will face the Buffaloes twice in the 2024-25 conference slate, once in Waco and once in Boulder. BU will also see Houston and TCU in home-and-away series this season.
• Netty joined Baylor after an All-Pac-12 stint with the Buffaloes that featured the 2023 Most Improved Player honor and led Colorado in points scored in 2024, averaging 14 points per game.
• She is Baylor’s sixth-consecutive Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year, the program’s 11th all-time, and shares the honor with TCU’s Hailey Van Lith.
• Baylor holds the all-time record against the Buffaloes, 12-8, with the two programs facing off each year as part of the first 15 years of the Big 12 Conference (1996-2011). The Bears defeated Colorado in each of the last eight contests, last taking an 81-59 victory in March 2011.
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• Waco welcomed Colorado transfer Aaronette Vonleh to the Bears’ roster for the 2024-25 season.
• Baylor suffered a 23-point setback against Oklahoma State in its conference home opener on New Year’s Day, the worst loss in a home conference game since Iowa State defeated the Bears 88-43 on Feb. 8, 1997.
• Frida Formann (13.6), Lior Garzon (12.2) and Jade Masogayo (11.7) each average double figures in points, while Sarah-Rose Smith leads the squad in rebounds at 5.9 per game.
• The Buffs are 2-2 on the road with a pair of wins coming against Utah Tech and Wyoming.
• Baylor continues conference play at Foster Pavilion against Colorado in the first of two tilts in the new 16-team Big 12 league schedule on Saturday at 2 p.m.
• The last win Colorado saw over a Baylor squad was in 2004, as the Buffaloes put a 10-point win over BU at the Ferrell Center.