Walter propels Baylor past TCU
FORT WORTH — Standout freshman Ja'Kobe Walter started a gameturning spurt for 15thranked Baylor with a slam dunk and ended it by blowing a kiss to the TCU student section after making a 3-pointer.
“They were saying ‘Airball’ after I missed ... but next one, I'm still shooting,” Walter said. “Knock it down. I had to shut them up, so blew them a kiss.”
Walter scored 13 of his 16 points after halftime and 7-foot freshman Yves Missi had 12 of his 16 in the second half of the Bears' 62-54 win Monday night Jalen Bridges finished with 15 points while RayJ Dennis had nine points, nine rebounds and nine assists.
With a clear path to the basket, Walter bypassed a 3-pointer and drove instead for an emphatic slam. That ignited a 10-0 run that he ended with a 3 from the right corner near his bench and in front of the students. That put Baylor up 42-31 with 13:48 left, and was part of a bigger 19-2 spurt in which he also made another long-range shot.
Jameer Nelson Jr. had 11 points and Emanuel Miller 10 for the Horned Frogs (19-9, 8-7), who shot 33% (17 of 51). That included 10 consecutive misses to end the first half, and a span of nine misses in a row over 7⁄ 1 minutes after halftime. 2
Baylor's zone defense held TCU to a season low in scoring — just one day short of a month after TCU won 105-102 in triple overtime at Baylor.
“We just had a lot of motivation, and we just want to really focus on the defensive end,” Walter said.
“They played hard defense. They threw the zone out for 40 minutes, and we just had no answer,” Miller said. “This loss hurts. It definitely stings.”
NO. 9 NORTH CAROLINA 75 MIAMI 71
R.J. Davis poured in four straight 3-pointers during a riveting secondhalf stretch on his way to a career-high 42 points, and the Tar Heels handed the Hurricanes their seventh loss in a row at Chapel Hill, N.C.
Davis set a single-game Smith Center scoring record.
TEXAS SOUTHERN 77 ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF 70
PJ Henry scored 25 points to help the Tigers to a road victory.
Jonathan Cisse added 17 for TSU (12-14, 10-5 Southwestern Athletic Conference).
ELSEWHERE
Rayquan Brown scored 21 points and Mississippi Valley State beat visiting Prairie View A&M 57-51 for the Delta Devils’ first victory of the season, snapping a 29-game losing streak dating to last season. … Marcus Greene scored 30 points as Houston Christian lost to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 91-79 at Sharp Gym. … Daeja Holmes scored 18 points to lead the Texas Southern women’s team in an 82-61 loss at Arkansas-Pine Bluff.