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SECTION B
WHO TO CALL
Larry McBride................940-566-6913
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Denton Record-Chronicle
Sports
INSIDE SPORTS
Marshall wins first
C-USA championship
Page 3B
DentonRC.com
Pioneers fall apart late
By Patrick Hayslip
Staff Writer
phayslip @ dentonrc. com
TWU won the first half against Tex-
as-Permian Basin. The Pioneers out-
scored the Falcons 35-21, using their ag-
gression to get to the paint and the free
throw line, but it takes two halves to win
a game.
Despite building their lead to 41-23
early in the second half, the Pioneers
couldn’t contain the Falcons’ offense,
which answered with a 15-2 run to get
back in the game, or make plays in the
final minutes to stave off the rally, falling
58-54 at Kitty Magee Arena on Satur-
day.
“It’s a 40-minute game,” TWU coach
TWU basketball
Texas-Permian Basin 58, TWU 54
Beth Jillson said. “It’s not a 20-minute
game, so if you’re going to only play 20
minutes, then you’re not going to win
games. We had won some games earlier
where teams made a strong push and
we won them, but it definitely bit us in
the butt tonight. We lost a game that we
should have won.”
Extending their late run to 28-9 and
displaying the driving ability the Pio-
neers leaned on early, the Falcons’ kick-
out 3-pointer with 4:50 left gave them
their first lead of the second half.
TWU (4-4) responded with two free
throws from Ria Pateraki to reclaim the
lead at 54-53 with 3:27 left, but the Pio-
neers turned the ball over several times
and didn’t score again.
Giselle Loya’s free throws gave the
Falcons (5-2) a 57-54 lead. On the next
offensive trip for the Pioneers, Emily
Spector missed an open 3-pointer from
the top of the key that would have tied
the game with 10 seconds left.
Spector led the Pioneers with a
game-high 19 points and II rebounds.
Ashley Salazar hit a one-handed
runner as time expired in the first half
to supply the Pioneers with a 35-21 lead.
Unlike Tuesday’s 58-53 loss to Lub-
bock Christian, in which the Pioneers
hit just two free throws in the first half,
TWU was persistent about getting to-
in loss to UTPB
ward the basket. Against UTPB, the Pi-
oneers scored 22 first-half points in the
paint while hitting eight of 10 free
throws. TWU shot over 43 percent in
the half, compared with the Falcons’ 24
percent.
But it was a reversal of efficiency in
the second half, as the Falcons, who had
four players score in double digits, shot
just under 62 percent from the field as
the Pioneers hit a dismal 22.7 percent.
“We needed to pass the ball and exe-
cute offensively,” Jillson said. “We didn’t
run offense very well. At times we ran
offense great, but we missed a lot of easy
layups. We missed a lot of layups in the
second half and we also played a little
on our heels. We didn’t attack as much
or handle their ball pressure well.”
TWU was 0-for-4 from 3-point
range in the second half while the Fal-
cons went 4-of-6.
“The most disappointing part to me
wasn’t missing shots but it was our de-
fensive intensity,” Jillson said. “We were
really good in the first half offensively,
but in the second half we allowed them
to score 32 points and we let our offense
affect our defense.”
The Pioneers now will head to San
Juan, Puerto Rico, for games against
Puerto Rico-Bayamon and Puerto Ri-
co-Rio Piedras on Dec. 13 and 14.
PATRICK HAYSLIP can be reached
at 940-566-6873 and via Twitter at
@PatrickHayslip.
Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram, AP
TCU receiver Cameron Echols-Luper sings the school song with his teammates after they defeated Iowa State 55-3 on Saturday in Fort Worth. The
Horned Frogs clinched a share of the Big 12 championship.
TCU claims Big 12 crown
Frogs win share of title
with rout of Cyclones
By Ralph D. Russo
AP College Football Writer
FORT WORTH - TCU coach Gary
Patterson fired a football into the stands
at Amon G. Carter Stadium, toward the
Horned Frog fans waving Big 12 cham-
pionship towels and chanting “Gary!
Gary!”
College football
Big 12: No. 4 TCU 55, Iowa State 3
The players sported their Big 12
champion caps, and conference com-
missioner Bob Bowlsby gave the Frogs a
trophy.
“TCU is the Big 12 co-champion,”
Patterson, soaked from a Gatorade
bath, yelled to the crowd.
Whether the Frogs get to play for an-
other championship — a national title
— remains to be seen.
Trevone Boykin passed for a career-
high 460 yards and caught a touch-
down pass as No. 4 TCU earned a share
of the conference title and kept its play-
off bid alive with a 55-3 victory against
lowly Iowa State on Saturday.
The Horned Frogs (11-1, 8-1 Big 12)
entered championship weekend
ranked third in the College Football
Playoff selection committee’s rankings.
TCU was the only playoff contender not
playing a ranked team this weekend.
There wasn’t much the Frogs could
do to help themselves against the Cy-
clones (2-10, 0-9), but they avoided the
type of clunker that could have caused
the committee to downgrade them.
“Now we’ll just wait. We’ll watch,”
Patterson said.
The final rankings come out today.
Aaron Green scored two touchdowns
See TCU on 3B
Baylor’s
Bryce Petty,
left, kisses a
Big 12 cham-
pionship
trophy Sat-
urday in
Waco.
Jamie Squire/
Getty Images
Baylor repeats atop league
By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
WACO — No. 5 Baylor did what it
had to do keep alive its chance for a spot
in the College Football Playoff. Bryce
Petty and company grabbed a share of a
second consecutive Big 12 title.
Up next for the Bears is wait and see.
Petty threw for 412 yards, Johnny
Jefferson had two touchdown runs and
Baylor beat No. 9 Kansas State 38-27
on Saturday night.
Baylor (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) and TCU (11-1,
8-1) tied for the top spot in the Big 12.
College football
Big 12: No. 5 Baylor 38, No. 9 Kansas St. 27
The Homed Frogs were ranked higher
(third) in the most recent committee
poll but lost to the Bears (sixth) on Oct.
11
“There’s one true champion and it’s
the Baylor Bears,” coach Art Briles
screamed to the celebratory crowd after
the victory over the Wildcats.
The Bears became the only team
See BAYLOR on 3B
Kornet,
Sooners
visit UNT
By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito @ dentonrc. com
North Texas seemingly has spent the
early stages of the season hovering on
the verge of breaking through for its
first win.
North Texas basketball
Women: Oklahoma at UNT, 11 a.m., FSSW
UNT had a chance
against SMU on
Wednesday in its last
game — just like it had
in tight losses to Hous-
ton, Northern Colora-
do and Eastern Illinois
— only to see it slip Kornet
away in a 62-55 loss.
The Mean Green
(0-5) will get another
crack at that elusive
first victory today in an
II am home game
against Oklahoma and
former Liberty Chris-
tian standout Nicole
Komet The junior
guard is averaging 9.0 points per game
and is the Sooners’ fourth-leading scorer.
Oklahoma (4-2) is coming off an
overtime win over Illinois and will pose
the biggest challenge UNT has faced
thus far in a frustrating season.
UNT has dropped four games by
seven points or fewer.
“I am disappointed for us but I am
not discouraged,” UNT coach Mike Pe-
tersen said following the Mean Green’s
loss to SMU. “We are doing too many
things right to be discouraged. It’s not
acceptable that we are 0-5, but we have
done a lot of things right and need to
build on those.”
Senior forward Briesha Wynn is av-
eraging 14.4 points per game for UNT
and is coming off a 17-point outing
against the Mustangs.
UNT trailed just 58-55 with three
minutes left but couldn’t make the key
plays it needed late. That problem has
become an ongoing theme for the Mean
Green.
UNT’s players have remained confi-
dent that they can break through.
“We are in a good place,” Wynn said.
“Everyone sees us at 0-5 and says that
we are not in a good place. As a captain,
I see us in a good spot. We have no prob-
lem knocking down shots, executing
and getting whatever we want against
any team. We just have to get over the
hump.”
Wynn
See UNT on 4B
Playoff panel has tough calls to make for final rankings
By Ralph D. Russo
AP College Football Writer
WACO — Alabama is in. So is Ore-
gon. That we know for sure about the
College Football Playoff after the top
two teams in the selection committee’s
rankings romped in their conference
championship games.
The contenders didn’t make it easy
on the selection committee Saturday,
ensuring some drama and bickering
Sunday after the field for the first play-
off is revealed.
College football
College Football Playoff
Florida State? The Seminoles are far
from perfect, but they are still unbeat-
en.
TCU? The Horned Frogs were third
last week and certainly did nothing to
hurt that on Championship Saturday.
Baylor and Ohio State presented win-
ning final arguments, too.
The Buckeyes were so good against
Wisconsin in the Big Ten champion-
ship game — with a third-string quar-
terback — that they might have helped
the selection committee solve its Big 12
problem.
Instead of choosing between the Big
12’s co-champions, the 12-member pan-
el could pass on both and go with the
Big Ten’s best team.
Figuring out who takes the Nos. 3
and 4 spots is going to take some work.
As for No. 1 and No. 2, it’s just a matter
of what order to put Alabama and Ore-
gon.
The Crimson Tide followed the
Ducks’ lead Saturday in Atlanta, wal-
loping Missouri 42-13 to win the South-
eastern Conference championship. Or-
egon beat Arizona 51-13 to win the
Pac-12 championship Friday night.
No need to worry, SEC fans. The
conference that dominated the BCS era
will be represented in the playoff. May-
be underrepresented in the minds of
many in the Deep South, but that’s an-
other debate.
Both the Tide and Ducks made a
case to be No. \ but it might not matter
much. Expect Alabama to be in the
semifinal held at the Sugar Bowl in New
Orleans and Oregon to be at the one
held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Cali-
fornia.
Who they’ll play is still up in the air.
The Homed Frogs (11-1) were the on-
ly contender not playing a ranked team
Saturday. The Frogs did what was ex-
pected to Iowa State, burying the Big
See PLAYOFF on 3B
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