Baylor survives another scare

? After winning with 0.2 seconds on the clock Jan. 29 at Oklahoma State, No. 7 Baylor pulled off another last-second miracle Wednesday night against Oklahoma.

Sophia Young, a junior forward from the West Indies, hit a jumper from just inside the three-point line with less than one second left to give Baylor a 73-72 victory.

The Bears took possession after a driving layup by Oklahoma’s Dionnah Jackson with 11.5 seconds left. Chelsea Whitaker drove to the left baseline and kicked it out to Young, whose jumper bounced in with 0.4 seconds remaining.

“I knew that once she passed it to me, I had to shoot it,” Young said.

After a timeout, Oklahoma ran a play, but couldn’t get a shot off following a long inbounds pass into traffic.

Young, who hasn’t tried a three-pointer all season and missed her only attempt last season, said she had been working on her long-range jumpers and joked that she could have taken the shot from a step further back.

“I was almost at the three-point line,” Young said. “I could have shot the three.”

Young finished with 21 points to lead the Bears (18-3, 8-2 Big 12), Emily Niemann added 15 points, Steffanie Blackmon scored 11 and Chameka Scott 10.

Jackson scored 26 of her 30 points in the second half as she nearly led Oklahoma back for a needed victory. She made nine of 12 shots after halftime and scored all but nine of Oklahoma’s 35 second-half points.

Leah Rush had 12 points, and reserve Antoinette Wadsworth finished with 10 for Oklahoma (12-9, 4-6), which has lost six games to ranked opponents. The Sooners also lost an overtime game to No. 15 Texas last month after leading by as many as 14 points.

“At some point, somewhere, sometime we’re going to get a break,” OU coach Sherri Coale said. “And when we do, we’re going to make the best of it.”

No. 17 Texas 83, Nebraska 53

Austin, Texas — Tiffany Jackson scored 19 points, and Texas stayed alive in the chase for the Big 12 title with a rout of Nebraska. Jamie Carey added 18 points for the Longhorns (14-7, 7-3), who led by 19 at halftime and cruised to their fifth win in six games. Kiera Hardy and Danielle Page scored 13 points apiece to lead Nebraska (14-8, 6-4). Texas, the two-time defending Big 12 champion, needed the win to stay within striking distance of another league crown. No team has won the Big 12 with more than three losses in league history. Texas lost a total of three conference games the last two seasons.