Oregon women’s basketball schedules home-and-home with Baylor
Kelly Graves has always been aggressive when it comes to scheduling and he has continued that tradition by scheduling a former national champion.
Oregon and Baylor have agreed to a home-and-home series beginning with the upcoming 2023-24 season Graves announced Monday.
The Ducks and Bears will meet on Dec. 3 at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas, while Baylor will visit Matthew Knight Arena during the 2024-25 season.
“We are always looking to build a tough non-conference schedule and Baylor will be a marquee non-con opponent for us,” Graves said. “A matchup against such a quality program will help us prepare for the gauntlet of the Pac-12 schedule, and it will be good for our young team to take a great opponent in a tough environment.”
December’s matchup will be the first since the teams met in the 2019 NCAA Final Four in which Baylor, then ranked as the nation’s No. 1 team, came away with a 72-67 victory in Tampa, Fla. The Bears lead the all-time series 4-0, with a 1-0 home record and a 1-0 record in Eugene.
Baylor has qualified for 19 straight NCAA Tournaments, the fifth-longest active streak in the country, and advanced to the Second Round in last year’s tournament. The Bears have won three national titles (2005, 2012, 2019) to go with 15 Sweet 16 appearances.
But the Bears haven’t been quite the same after coach Kim Mulkey left for LSU, which just won last year’s national title. Baylor finished the 2022-23 season with a 20-13 record.
