Lady Bears sweep Big 12 Coach, Player of the Year honors for 4th time in 5 years

For the fifth straight year, a Baylor Lady Bear is the Big 12 Player of the Year for women’s basketball.

Sophomore Nina Davis became the third different Baylor student-athlete to claim the honor during the program’s five-year run, following Brittney Griner (2011-12-13) and Odyssey Sims (2014). The second-year forward from Memphis leads the Big 12 in scoring (20.7 ppg) and ranks third in rebounding (8.6 rpg).

But that wasn’t the Lady Bears’ only honor. For the fourth time in five years, Kim Mulkey was named Big 12 Coach of the Year. This season, Mulkey led a young team (Baylor’s top five scorers are all either freshmen or sophomores) to its fifth straight regular season Big 12 title — the fourth-longest such streak in conference history across any sport.

Davis and junior Niya Johnson were unanimous selections to the All-Big 12 first team, while senior Sune Agbuke made the league’s All-Defensive Team and Kristy Wallace made the All-Freshman Team. Sophomore Khadijiah Cave earned the league’s Sixth Man Award, an honor previously won by Lady Bears Melissa Jones (2009) and Destiny Williams (2013).

After a first-round bye, Baylor opens up the 2015 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship Saturday at 1:30 p.m. (FSN) against either Kansas or Kansas State.

Sic ’em, Lady Bears!