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WOMEN'S HOOPS ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELM BAYLOR -- (AP Sports) - Baylor could have used freshman star Brittney Griner in the second half Sunday, when the No. 14 Bears managed only a pair of field goals.

Instead, Cokie Reed and Brittainey Raven scored 18 points each and No. 18 Texas cruised to a 70-54 momentum-building victory heading into the Big 12 tournament.

Griner is serving a two-game suspension after throwing a punch at Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle during a win in Lubbock on Wednesday night. She attended the game but sat in the student section near the Baylor bench, where she signed autographs and posed for pictures.

"Brittney Griner is loved here," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "Brittney Griner is loved a lot of places. She just made a bad mistake and is paying for it dearly."

So did the Bears.

Kathleen Nash added 12 points for the Longhorns (21-9, 10-6), who didn't allow a second-half field goal by Baylor until there was 4:44 left. Erika Arriaran added 10 points and Ashley Gayle had 11 rebounds for Texas.

Kimetria Hayden scored 14 points to lead Baylor (22-8, 9-7), while Kelli Griffin had 10 points and Morghan Medlock had 12 rebounds.

Baylor led 32-28 at halftime and was up 41-34 with 15:21 to play, before Texas switched to a zone defense and played extended minutes with two post players.

"We played Ashley Gayle and Cokie together, and we don't really play them together often," coach Gail Goestenkors said. "Because we were in a zone, it allowed us to play them together. They changed or altered so many shots and if they didn't, they got the rebounds. I thought they were very effective together."

After moving to the zone, Texas embarked on a 19-0 run to build a 53-32 lead with 8:02 left.

Baylor made 13 of its first 14 free throw attempts in the second half before Lindsay Palmer's jumper with 4:44 left gave the Bears their first field goal.

By that point, Texas had built a 62-47 lead.

"It was hard trying to get a shot off with their size inside, even though we did attack," Griffin said. "They had a good strategy in the second half to go to a zone. We just did a poor job of attacking it."

Medlock said Baylor can usually handle a zone defense with Griner playing.

"It's like she draws all the attention and then that leaves everybody else open to cut," she said. "We didn't have her, so they just stretched out and were big in there and it was hard for the guards to see over a player like Brittainey Raven, who's long and fast."

Texas led 14-12 before Waco native Reed hit back-to-back baskets and Raven converted a three-point play to go up 21-12 with 7:50 remaining.

Baylor trailed 23-14 with 5:03 left in the first half before Jordan Madden came off the bench and hit two consecutive baskets to spark a 10-0 run to leave the Bears up 24-23 with 3:24 to play.

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HORNS FALL IN BCS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME -- (AP Sports) - The sure thing was looking shaky for Alabama.

Hanging onto a precarious three-point lead and with momentum on the other side, linebacker Eryk Anders was determined not to let the championship slip away.

Anders forced a fumble on his blindside sack of Texas backup quarterback Garrett Gilbert with 3:02 left Thursday night to help the top-ranked Crimson Tide hold on for a 37-21 victory in the BCS title game--a win that figured to be much easier when Alabama knocked out Colt McCoy early in the first quarter.

"I would have given anything to be out there because it would have been different," McCoy said.

With McCoy on the sideline nursing a shoulder injury, the Tide (14-0) rolled to a 24-6 lead at halftime, the final touchdown coming when lineman Marcell Dareus picked off a shovel pass and returned it 28 yards for the score late in the second quarter.

"I was thinking about grabbing the guy with the ball, but then I said, `Let me just grab this football.' I wasn't even thinking about the highlight. I was so excited. My legs were weak, my muscles were crazy, and I made it," Dareus said.

The second half was a question mark with Gilbert in the game--a freshman who was Texas' "quarterback of the future" but had thrown only 26 college passes.

The kid almost did it.

He threw two touchdown passes to All-American Jordan Shipley to trim the deficit to 24-21 with 6:15 left, and after an Alabama punt, he had the ball at the 7-yard line, 93 yards away from one of the most improbable comeback stories in the history of the game.

But after an Alabama holding penalty moved the ball to the 17, Gilbert dropped back to pass and got hit by Anders, a senior who plays in the shadow of All-Americans Terrence Cody and Rolando McClain. The ball went flying and Courtney Upshaw recovered.

Three plays later, Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram surged into the end zone from the 1 for the 10-point lead. A few minutes later, after Gilbert's third interception of the night, Trent Richardson scored his second touchdown to make it 37-21.

Back for the first time since 1992, when Bryant's protege, Gene Stallings, led the Crimson Tide to its last national title. This one gives Alabama eight since the polls began in the 1930s. Its seventh Associated Press championship should be a shoo-in when the votes are tabulated.

Ingram finished with 116 yards and two touchdowns and Richardson had 109 yards and two scores.

Anders will go down with them in Crimson Tide lore, as will Dareus, who before his touchdown knocked McCoy--the winningest quarterback in college football history--down and out with an injury to his throwing shoulder on Texas' fifth offensive play.

"I just heard a thump when I hit him," Dareus said. "I did lay it down pretty hard. I didn't try to."

Dareus finished with one tackle, one interception and one touchdown, but all were game-changers.

Seeking its second national title in five years, Texas (13-1) got to the game on the back of its All-American quarterback, who often looked like a one-man show in leading the Longhorns to 13 straight wins.

After the injury, McCoy was begging to go back in to finish his last college game. His dad, interviewed on TV, said the injury wasn't that bad.

But Texas coaches decided to err on the side of caution, and McCoy spent the second half wearing a headset on the sideline, trying to encourage his teammates.

The Longhorns defense, ranked third in the country in yards allowed, kept things close until Gilbert got his feet underneath him.

And boy did he.

He led the Longhorns on a five-play, 59-yard drive to make it 24-13, then 60 yards for the second score, and suddenly, the Tide was falling apart, not rolling. The 2-point conversion made it 24-21.

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UT VOLLEYBALL LOSES TO PENN STATE FOR NATIONAL TITLE -- (UT Sports News) - No. 1 Penn State rallied for a 3-2 victory (22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13) over No. 2 Texas to win the NCAA Championship Saturday evening at the St. Pete Times Forum.

Texas ends the season at 29-2, while the Nittany Lions finish the season at 38-0, win their third consecutive NCAA championship and keep their winning streak intact at 102 matches.

Texas took the first two sets before Penn State rallied to take the next two and force a decisive fifth set. Trailing 14-12 in the fifth set, Texas saved a match point with a kill from senior Ashley Engle, but the Nittany Lions converted the next point with a kill from Megan Hodge, the AVCA National Player of the Year, to clinch the victory and secure the NCAA title by the slimmest of margins.

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Senior Destinee Hooker registered a career-high 34 kills and was selected as the NCAA Championship’s Most Outstanding Player. Engle and junior Juliann Faucette were selected to the All-Tournament Team.

A Hooker service ace gave Texas a 4-2 lead in the opening set before Penn State ran off four straight points to go up, 6-4. At seven-all, UT took three straight behind Rachael Adams’ two blocks and a kill. Penn State regrouped to take the next four points and assumed a short-lived 11-10 lead. Texas took the next three points with a pair of Faucette kills and an errant Megan Hodge attack.

At 15-all, UT went on another 3-0 run behind kills from Engle and Amber Roberson and another Hooker ace. But, Penn State claimed five of the next six points to take a 20-19 Texas lead and force a Longhorns timeout. A tap from PSU’s Alisha Glass and a double block gave the Nittany Lions a 22-19 lead and forced another Texas timeout. However, on Engle’s serve, Texas finished off the set with a 6-0 run.

UT responded with kills from Engle and Hooker to cut the deficit to 22-21 and force a PSU timeout. Out of the break, Engle fired a timely service ace, and Adams and Roberson teamed up with for a block to give Texas a 23-22 lead and force another Penn State timeout. Back-to-back kills from Hooker gave Texas the first set, 25-22.

After hitting a paltry .182 while winning the first set, Texas hit a staggering .500, with 11 kills from Hooker, en route to victory in set two. Tied at four in set two, Texas ran off four straight on an Alyssa D’Errico service error, an errant PSU attack, a double block from Adams and Roberson and a Jennifer Doris service ace, as UT took an 8-4 lead and Penn State called for time. With Texas leading 10-8, Hooker’s right arm delivered seven of the next eight point to give UT a 19-9 lead.

Leading 23-15, PSU cut into the lead with kills from Hodge and Fatima Balza and a block from Balza and Blair Brown, as UT called for time with a 23-18 lead. PSU’s Hodge and Balza added another block, but a Hooker kill set up set point for Texas at 24-19. A UT double contact made it 24-20, but a kill from Doris finished off the set for Texas, 25-20.

Penn State took control early on in set three, and with a 4-3 lead, PSU took four of the next five points to stretch its lead to 8-4 and force a Texas timeout. The Longhorns cut their deficit to 12-10, but the Nittany Lions picked up four of the next five points to take a 16-11 lead and force another Texas timeout.

PSU stretched its lead to 18-11 before Texas clawed its way back. Trailing 20-14, UT took advantage of kills from Hooker and Roberson and a Penn State double contact, as it cut the deficit to 20-17 and forced a Nittany Lions timeout. Penn State claimed the next two points out of the break before Texas collected a Faucette kill and two errant PSU attacks to cut the Nittany Lions’ lead to 22-20.

Kills from PSU’s Hodge and Brown gave Penn State four set points, but an Adams kill and a Hodge swing that sailed wide cut the PSU lead to 24-22. A Hooker block cut the PSU lead to one, but Hodge put away a kill on the ensuing point to give Penn State the set, 25-23.

Tied at three in set four, PSU picked up a Hodge kill and took advantage of two Texas miscues to take a 6-3 lead and force a Texas timeout. Trailing 10-5, Texas made its move behind superior defense from Heather Kisner and Sydney Yogi before tying the set 11 when an attack from PSU’s Dorton struck the antenna. PSU took a 17-15 lead behind an errant Roberson attack and a Hodge kill, which forced a Texas timeout.

Texas tied the set at 17 but was unable to regain the lead in set four. An errant PSU attack cut the Nittany Lions’ lead slim lead to 22-21, but the Penn State claimed the final three points in the set to force the decisive fifth set.

UT took a 3-1 lead in the fifth set before Penn State took the next two points to pull even. The two teams traded points until UT assumed a 7-5 lead with a double block from Faucette and Adams. Penn State added a kill from Hodge and a double block to tie the set at seven. From there, Penn State and Texas traded points until 11-all, when Hodge put away a kill to give PSU a 12-11 lead.

A Brown service error evened the set at 12, but a Dorton kill and a Hooker swing ran long to set up the match points for Penn State.

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ORANGE TOWER INFORMATION -- GoHorns.com found an interesting news release from the UT Office of Public Affairs regarding the policies for an ORANGE TOWER, and a brief graph on how the tradition started. Click HERE for the release. It's got pictures, folks! The Daily Texan also addresses the topic in Tower looms LARGE at UT from July, 2002. Other Daily Texan tower archive stories are HERE and HERE (both from 2003 archives).

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