Dashiell Bennett — [What Are We To Do With Brittney Griner?] Baylor's Brittney Griner assaulted someone on a basketball court last night and after dealing with LeGarrette Blount and Elizabeth Lambert, it's still not clear what the appropriate level of hysterical moral outrage should be.
From a pure "Dude, that's not cool" perspective Griner's sucker punch of Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle is just as egregious as the one Blount laid on Boise State's Byron Hout. (And it wasn't a "forearm." It was a wheelhouse.) It's actually worse, because the game was still going on. Never mind that the best player on the team got herself ejected from a close game; there was still plenty of opportunity to get back at Barncastle within the rules of the game. After all, that's what Lambert was trying to do when she shocked a nation with her vicious elbows. Jostling with opponents is what soccer players do, even if she happened take it beyond the bounds human decency.
Baylor center Brittney Griner
WACO, Texas (AP) - Brittney Griner lost a shot before the break was a matte when the ball not far over the edge. sense of Baylor sophomore 6-foot-8 scored on the play, entering the offensive rebound to lose.Griner recorded one of the first women's collegiate dunks, the first being Candace Parker of the University of Tennessee. November 24, 2009, against Jacksonville State.
On December 16, 2009, Griner recorded Baylor's first triple-double with 34 points, 13 rebounds, and Big 12 Conference record 11 blocked shots. The 34 points and 11 blocks were career highs. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Griner’s 29 points lead No. 1 Baylor to 20th win
WACO, Texas (AP) — Brittney Griner scored 29 points, missed a dunk and outscored Texas by herself in the first half, leading top-ranked Baylor to its 20th straight victory with a 96-68 rout on Saturday.
Griner added 12 rebounds for her 23rd career double-double and had seven blocked shots. She didn’t play the final 10 minutes of the lopsided game. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Nimitz HS grad Brittney Griner and No.1 Baylor keep on rolling
Nimitz High School graduate Brittney Griner scored 23 points and the top ranked Baylor Lady Bears won their 19th straight game with a 69-45 victory Wednesday night.
Griner had 15 points in the first half but didn't show the dominant form fans have come to expect from her. The Huskers had a couple 6-foot-3 centers, senior Catheryn Redmon and freshman Adrianna Maurer, to guard the 6-8 Griner. They double-teamed Griner at times, but sometimes let her go one-on-one.
The preseason All-American, shooting 55 percent for the season, missed six of her first nine shots and finished 6 of 14. She made all 11 of her free throws, but grabbed just four rebounds, half her average. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Griner Leads Baylor Comeback In Battle Of The Brazos
WACO, TX -- Number 1 ranked Baylor women's basketball team (24-1, 11-0) avoids another upset bid by 5th ranked Texas A&M (21-3, 10-2) 67-58 Monday night at the Ferrell Center.
Brittney Griner leading the Bears to its second win over the Aggies in just over two weeks scoring 26 points. Tyra White lead Texas A&M with 29 in a losing effort.
The win gives the Lady Bears a two game lead in the Big 12 standings. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Texas A&M star to test Baylor's Brittney Griner
Baylor sophomore Brittney Griner and Texas A&M senior Danielle Adams, two of the nation’s best, collide for a fourth time tonight when the sixth-ranked Aggies (21-2, 9-1 Big 12) play at the top-ranked Lady Bears(23-1, 10-0).
While Adams tops the league in scoring with 23.7 points per game, Griner (second with 22.4 ppg) has bested her in each of their three previous encounters, including in a 63-60 Baylor victory in late January in Reed Arena.
“I made some stupid fouls in the first game [this season], but I know we can beat them and so does everyone else,” Adams said after scoring a school-record 40 points Saturday in a blowout of Kansas. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Baylor's Griner, A&M's Adams meet again tonight
Baylor sophomore Brittney Griner and Texas A&M senior Danielle Adams, two of the nation's best, collide for a fourth time tonight, when the No. 6 Aggies (21-2, 9-1 Big 12) play the top-ranked Lady Bears (23-1, 10-0) at the Ferrell Center in Waco. Rest assured the competitive posts won't exchange valentines just before the 8 p.m. tip on ESPN2.
While Adams tops the league in scoring with 23.7 points per game, Griner (second with 22.4 ppg) has bested her fellow Big 12 standout in each of their three previous encounters, including in a 63-60 Baylor victory in late January at Reed Arena. ( Read Brittney Griner more... )
Moore, Griner shine in February Frenzy
We had a potential Women's Final Four preview in Hartford and Waco tonight with four Top 15 teams on display.
Let's start in Connecticut. It's not a coincidence that UConn has won an NCAA record 75 consecutive home games. Visitors get devoured when they enter the Huskies' lair. And Oklahoma is the latest team to experience the domination of Maya Moore and company. UConn jumped out to an early 18-6 lead, and it became evident that the biggest question was not whether UConn would win, but by how much. It turns out the answer was 41, as UConn dismantled, thrashed and completely dominated the Sooners, 86-45.
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