The 2009–10 Baylor Lady Bears women's basketball team will be coached by Kim Mulkey. The Bears are a member of the Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

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 and participated in the Final Four.

Offseason

• April 2: The 2009 Women's Basketball Coaches Association
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   (WBCA) High School All-America Game presented by Nike will be televised on ESPNU. Baylor Lady Bear signees Brittney Griner and Mariah Chandler are two of the 20 players selected to participate in the All-Star game.
• April 7: The future stars of women’s basketball played in Saint Louis in the 2009 Women's Basketball Coaches Association
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   (WBCA) High School All-America Game presented by Nike. State Farm/WBCA
  Women's Basketball Coaches Association
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   High School Player of the Year and Baylor signee Brittney Griner earned Blue Team MVP honors. She scored 20 points (9-of-15), nine rebounds, eight blocks and three steals.
• April 9: Baylor guard/forward Jessica Morrow was selected as the 27th overall pick in the 2009 WNBA draft. She became the program's seventh WNBA draftee. Morrow's selection marked the fifth straight season a Baylor player was taken in the WNBA Draft.
• April 14: The Baylor Lady Bear basketball program signed Brooklyn Pope, a 6-1 forward/guard, to a Letter of Athletic Aid. Pope is a transfer from the Rutgers University, intends to begin classes at Baylor in June. Pope will sit out the 2009-10 season in order to comply with NCAA transfer rules; she will have three seasons of eligibility beginning with the 2010-11 season but is eligible to practice with the Lady Bears next year. As a freshman for the Scarlet Knight, Pope appeared in 29 of the team's 34 games and logged one start. The 6-1 forward/guard averaged 2.1 points, 2.0 rebounds and 6.0 minutes a game in 2008-09.
• April 29: Sophomore Whitney Zachariason has been named to the Academic All-Big 12 first-team it was recently announced by the league office. Zachariason, a general studies major from Little Rock, Ark., maintains a 3.3 GPA.

Preseason

Date	Location	Opponent	Bears Points	Opp. Points	Record
Nov. 3	Waco, Texas	St. Edwards	97	43	1-0
Nov. 7	Waco, Texas	Incarnate Word	81	52	2-0

Regular season

Brittney Griner set numerous NCAA Division I, Big 12 Conference and Baylor records. She set a new single-season block mark with 218 and broke the NCAA Tournament blocked shot record, rejecting 35 through four tournament games.

Roster

Number	Name	Height	Position	Class
1	Kimetria Hayden	5-11	Guard	Freshman
2	Cherrish Wallace	5-6	Guard	Sophomore
3	Jordan Madden	6-0	Guard	Freshman
4	Whitney Zachariason	6-2	Forward	Junior
5	Melissa Jones	5-10	Guard	Junior
15	Shanay Washington	6-1	Guard	Freshman
20	Terran Condrey	5-7	Guard	Sophomore
21	Kelli Griffin	5-8	Guard	Junior
24	Ashley Field	6-2	Center	Sophomore
25	Lindsay Palmer	5-10	Guard	Sophomore
32	Brooklyn Pope	6-1	Forward/Guard	Redshirt Sophomore
42	Brittney Griner	6-8	Center	Freshman
44	Mariah Chandler	6-2	Forward	Freshman
55	Morghan Medlock	6-1	Forward	Senior

Schedule

• The Bears will participate in four notable events. On November 15, Baylor will play Tennessee in the State Farm Tip-Off Classic. From November 27 to December 5, Baylor will participate in the World Vision Classic. The Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden will involve Baylor and Boston College on December 13. Baylor will be making its first appearance at MSG. From December 19 to December 20, the Bears will participate in the Las Vegas Hoops Classic.

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2010 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament

The 2010 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship was the 2010 edition of the Big 12 Conference's championship tournament. It was held at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City from March 11 until March 14, 2010...

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!colspan=9| 2010 NCAA Tournament

2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament started Saturday, March 20, 2010 and was completed on Tuesday, April 6 of the same year with University of Connecticut Huskies defending their title from the previous year by defeating Stanford, 53-47. The tournament bids were announced on...

Player stats

Player	Games Played	Minutes	Field Goals	Three Pointers	Free Throws	Rebounds	Assists	Blocks	Steals	Points
Brittney Griner	35	1174	232	0	180	297	35	223	18	644

NCAA Basketball Tournament

The Lady Bears advanced to the Women's Final Four by defeating Duke 51-48. In that game, Griner set a new NCAA Woman's tournament record by getting her 31st block, breaking the old record set by Alison Bales of Duke in 2006. She currently has 35 blocks.

Awards and honors

• Lindsay Palmer, Elite 88 award
• Brittney Griner, Associated Press
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  Second Team All-American
• Brittney Griner, National Freshman of the Year
• Brittney Griner, Memphis Regional's Most Outstanding Player
• Brittney Griner, WBCA/State Farm All-Region 5 team
• Brittney Griner, Big 12 Conference's Freshman of the Year
• Brittney Griner, Co-Defensive Player of the Year
• Brittney Griner, All-Big 12 first team
• Brittney Griner, All-Big 12 All-Defensive team
• Brittney Griner, All-Big 12 All-Freshman team.

Team players drafted into the WNBA

Round	Pick	Player	WNBA Club

External links

• Official Site