NEW YORK (AP) – Oklahoma City hasn’t been too kind to Baylor the last few years in the women’s NCAA Tournament.
The Lady Bears lost in 2013 to Louisville and in 2015 to Notre Dame. Coach Kim Mulkey doesn’t care about the past, focusing on the current team which has run through its first two games of the NCAAs. Baylor faces Louisville on Friday night in a rematch of one of the biggest upsets in the tournament.
“That’s history,” she said. “So now you go to this game, and they’re a different team, we’re a different team.”
Mulkey said she doesn’t make too much of the similar circumstances or the past upsets.
“You win some you shouldn’t and you lose some that you probably shouldn’t, but you can’t let them just kill your spirit,” she said. “You can’t let them run you out of the business. You just motivate yourself, pick yourself back up and keep coaching.”