KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Brittney Griner scored 21 points and Destiny Williams added 18 to lead No. 3 Baylor to an 86-53 victory over Kansas State that sent the Lady Bears to the Big 12 tournament finals.

Griner and Williams left the game midway through the second half with top-seeded Baylor (30-2) up by 30 points on the fourth-seeded Wildcats (21-10). The Lady Bears will meet the winner of the Texas A&M-Oklahoma semifinal.

Kelsey Hill led the Wildcats with 14 points.

It was the inside-outside combination of Griner and guard Odyssey Sims that sustained Baylor throughout the first half. Griner set the tone by posting up and hitting two short jumpers for the opening four points of the game.

When Kansas State relied on its zone defense to limit Griner's touches around the basket, Sims took charge with her perimeter shooting. She hit four 3-pointers and finished the half with 14 points, while Griner added 12.

Baylor rolled out to a 22-5 lead midway through the first half, but the Wildcats fought back from long range. Kansas State was 7 of 13 from behind the arc in the first half and received a big boost from Hill, who was 3 of 4 on from 3-point range. One 3-pointer by Hill brought the Wildcats within 28-19 before consecutive 3s by Sims quickly pushed Baylor back up by 15.

With Griner dominating in the lane, Kansas State had only a couple of two-point baskets in the first half, which ended with Baylor leading 41-26.

Williams was coming off a career-high 21 points against Kansas and scored eight quick points early in the second half to help the Lady Bears pulled away.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Baylor coach Kim Mulkey is running out of superlatives to describe 6-foot-8 center Brittney Griner.

Griner had 31 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks to lift No. 3 Baylor to a 61-58 victory Saturday over No. 8 Texas A&M for the Big 12 tournament title. Griner's points and blocks were Big 12 championship game records.

"If anybody has another adjective (for Griner's performance), let me know," Mulkey said.

Lady Bears (31-2) cut down the nets and celebrated a second Big 12 tournament championship in three years thanks to the domination by Griner at both ends. During one stretch, she scored 20 consecutive points.

"This game is going to help us when we get in the NCAA tournament," Griner said. "There will be times when you get down and you have to be able to fight back."

The Aggies' Danielle Adams, the conference leading scorer at 23 points per game, was held to 12 points on 4-of-19 shooting. Adams missed a 3-pointer with 4 seconds left that would have tied the game.

"I thought it was going in," Adams said. "I thought it looked good when I put it up."

Tyra White added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Aggies (27-5). Baylor forward Destiny Williams had the primary defensive assignment against Adams. Meanwhile, Aggies coach Gary Blair kept alternating fresh defenders on Griner to no avail.

"It was a great college basketball game," Blair said. "You can see why the Big 12 is like it is now."

The Aggies took a 49-48 lead on a free throw by White with 9:53 remaining. But consecutive baskets by Jordan Madden, Griner and Kimetria Hayden gave Baylor the lead for good.

Hayden came off the bench for 10 points to take some of the offensive pressure off Griner. Williams led the Lady Bears with 11 rebounds.

Baylor had a 50-36 rebounding advantage to offset 22 turnovers.

Texas A&M stunned Baylor by taking a 12-0 lead on the excellent defense by the Aggies' guards. Sydney Colson and Sydney Carter combined for six steals in the first half and were quick to collapse in the post when Griner put the ball on the floor.

The Lady Bears didn't score a point in the opening 4:50, but began to chip away at the deficit after a short jumper by Williams ended the scoring drought. Baylor used a 23-6 run to move ahead 23-18 with 5:22 left in the half.

"We've been down before this year on several occasions and fought back," said Baylor forward Melissa Jones, who had nine rebounds. "We knew even though we were down, we could still find a way to win."

Griner finished the half with 16 points on 5-of-9 shooting after a 1-for-5 start. Texas A&M closed within 30-28 at the break.

Adams took just three shots in the first half with Griner lurking in the lane. The Lady Bears got back in the game with a big lift from Hayden, who had eight points in 15 first-half minutes.

A&M finished 1 for 14 from 3-point range.

Baylor likely will get the top seed for the NCAA tournament, and Blair believes his team will earn a No. 2 seed. The Aggies are 0-3 against Baylor this year, but want another shot at their conference rivals in the NCAA tourney.

"We know we're on their level," Colson said.

WACO, Texas (AP) - Brittney Griner and top-seeded Baylor took Prairie View to a record-breaking NCAA tournament low.

Griner and Brooklyn Pope each had 17 points as the Lady Bears opened the NCAA tournament at home with the expected lopsided victory, 66-30 on Sunday night when Prairie View's miserable shooting translated into the lowest-scoring half ever in the tournament.

Things couldn't have gone any worse for SWAC champion Prairie View (21-12), which missed its first 12 shots before Waco native Robin Jones finally made a layup more than 9 minutes into the game. Baylor (32-2) already had a 16-0 lead by then.

The Lady Bears, who went to the Final Four last season when the 6-foot-8 Griner was a freshman, led 34-8 at halftime. That was the fewest points ever by any women's team in an NCAA tournament game - yet still five points more than the lowest mark in a regular-season game.

Prairie View was only 3-of-27 shooting before halftime, and finished 12 of 60 (20 percent). The 30 total points were the third-lowest in an NCAA women's tournament game.

Griner played a team-high 28 minutes in which she also had eight rebounds and six blocked shots. Kimetria Hayden had 12 points.

While Baylor is very good, the Big 12 champions are still very young, and several were playing their first NCAA tournament game.

Pope and Destiny Williams, who scored the Lady Bears' first six points, are sophomore post players who were sitting out last year after transferring to Baylor. Starting point guard Odyssey Sims is a freshman and finished with five points on 1-of-5 shooting.

Griner is among seven sophomores on the roster, and the only senior who plays significant minutes is starting guard Melissa Jones, who had nine rebounds while going scoreless in 24 minutes and still playing with blurred vision in her right eye.

Siarra Soliz led Prairie View with 12 points. The freshman guard, Prairie View's leading scorer for the season in a starting lineup with four seniors, had five turnovers - three in the first 2 1/2 minutes of the game.

Baylor plays Tuesday night against West Virginia (24-9), with the winner going to the round of 16. The Mountaineers defeated Conference USA champion Houston 79-73 in the first game Sunday at the Ferrell Center, where Baylor is 20-0 this season.

The Lady Bears have been to the NCAA round of 16 five times the past seven years.

Though the Lady Bears were in complete control the entire game, coach Kim Mulkey at times sat on the bench with her arms and legs crossed while staring to the court seemingly frustrated by some of the mistakes being made by her team.

Things will certainly get more difficult moving forward, and there were teaching moments in what looked at times more like a glorified practice for Baylor.

Every Lady Bears player was on the floor for at least six minutes.

Griner, who has five career dunks and is one of seven women who have dunked in a college game, looked like she wanted to try to become only the second with a slam in an NCAA tournament game.

After Griner had a steal midway through the first half, she was headed toward the basket with defenders around her. She settled for a reverse one-handed layup that made it 20-2.

Baylor was up 6-0 after Griner drew the entire Prairie View defense to the left side of the lane, and she passed to Williams, who was all alone on the right side, for an easy layup. Griner shook her head up and down when she turned and started going back to play defense.

The next basket came when Madden passed up on a 3-pointer, took a step and passed inside to Griner for a layup.

The fewest points scored in any half of a Division I women's game was by Savannah State, which trailed Florida State 54-3 at halftime Nov. 23, 2003.

WACO, Texas (AP) - Brittney Griner spent much of the first half watching from the Baylor bench. The Lady Bears held on just fine until she could get back in the game.

Griner had 30 points even after sitting the final 9 minutes of the first half with two fouls, and the top-seeded Bears rolled over West Virginia 82-68 on Tuesday night to reach the NCAA tournament's round of 16 for the sixth time in eight years.

Baylor (33-2) already had a 14-point lead and Griner had 10 points when she picked up her second foul, but West Virginia managed to only trim that deficit to 11 points by halftime.

The 6-foot-8 standout sophomore re-established herself after halftime, taking advantage of the one-on-one coverage that West Virginia had said it would be willing to play against the Big 12 player of the year.

After the Mountaineers (24-10) had a turnover to open the second half, Griner was fighting for position under the basket when she signaled point guard Odyssey Sims. Next came a lob pass to Griner, who took a step behind the defender and converted an easy layup.

West Virginia lost senior guard Sarah Miles to a right leg injury with about 16 minutes left. Soon after she went to the locker room, her teammates responded with an inspired 9-0 run -- including a 3-pointer by 6-3 center Ayana Dunning -- to close the gap to 58-51.

Griner made sure the Mountaineers got no closer.

After blocking Liz Repella's shot on West Virginia's next possession, Griner quickly got the ball on offense and made a strong inside basket. That started a 16-2 run in which Griner had seven points and two assists.

Baylor next plays Wisconsin-Green Bay (34-1) on Sunday in Dallas. The fifth-seeded Phoenix have won 25 games in a row after a 65-56 victory Tuesday night over Michigan State.

Repella had 29 points for West Virginia, which has never gotten past the second round of the NCAA tournament. Vanessa House had 14.

Melissa Jones and Sims both had 13 points for Baylor. Destiny Williams added 10 points on 5-of-5 shooting and had nine rebounds.

Mountaineers coach Mike Carey had said his team wouldn't change what it did against Griner and Baylor, sticking primarily to the tenacious man-to-man defense. They also planned to go right at Griner when they had the ball.

Right away at the start of the game, Griner got a pass from Sims while going one-on-one against 6-4 center Asya Bussie -- the two previously went against each other in an AAU game that both said was a good matchup.

Bussie responded with a quick inside basket against Griner that tied the game.

Miles hit a 12-footer that put West Virginia up and the score went back-and-forth for the first few minutes. Repella hit a 3-pointer that made it 7-6, but Baylor went ahead to stay when Griner had Bussie on her again and passed the ball. Jones grabbed the ball with her right hand going away from the basket along the baseline and made a layup.

Repella picked up her second foul after that, but was only out of the game for a couple of minutes before Madina Ali picked up her second foul and Baylor had already jumped ahead 20-8.

Miles was guarding Sims when both players went hard to the floor in the second half. Miles' right leg folded awkwardly under her and she remained on the floor grimacing in pain for several minutes before being helped to the locker room.

The senior put no pressure on her right leg when leaving the court, and was using crutches when she rejoined her team on the bench with about 6 minutes left -- and when she left the arena after the game ended.

DALLAS (AP) - Brittney Griner had another big game, got some help from Baylor's freshman point guard, and the top-seeded Lady Bears ended any chance for Wisconsin-Green Bay to have a Butler-like finish.

Griner had a career-high 40 points with 10 rebounds, and combined with Sims to score all the points in the game-clinching 14-0 spurt, as the Lady Bears finally pulled away for an 86-76 victory over Green Bay on Sunday night.

Baylor advanced to the regional final by snapping a 25-game winning streak by the feisty team from the Horizon League that also boasts a two-time Final Four team on the men's side.

The Lady Bears (34-2) led only 52-49 before Griner made a short baseline shot over two defenders with just over 13 minutes left. Sims then had consecutive 3-pointers before two free throws and a putback by Griner. Sims ended the spurt with a steal and breakaway layup.

"Stuff started clicking for us," Griner said. "We weren't rushing anything."

Green Bay (34-2), in the NCAA round of 16 for the first time, put up quite a fight for a while against a team trying to get to the Final Four for the second straight season - and proved they weren't intimidated by Griner, Baylor's 6-foot-8 sophomore standout.

In the end, though, Griner stood tall again.

"You might better change the way you think about guarding her," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "They said they weren't going to do much different."

Griner was coming off 30 points and eight blocks in Baylor's victory Tuesday night over West Virginia, when she sat on the bench the final 9:20 of the first half with two fouls.

This time, she sat the final 5:51 of the half with 13 points after two fouls in a 14-second span.

Next up for Baylor is a very familiar foe.

Baylor plays Texas A&M (30-5) on Tuesday night, and the winner goes to the NCAA Final Four. It is a rematch of the Big 12 championship game three weeks ago, when the Aggies jumped out to a 12-0 lead before Baylor recovered to beat their conference rival for the third time this season, 61-58.

The Aggies advanced with a 79-38 victory over Georgia earlier Sunday that was never close.

Sims, the freshman playing only a few miles from home, finished with 18 points, four assists and three steals. That was plenty to offset a season-high eight turnovers.

Griner was 15 of 21 from the field and made all 10 of her free throws.

Kayla Tetschlag led Green Bay with 27 points and 10 rebounds. Celeste Hoewisch had 20 points.

The Phoenix finished with 34 rebounds, the same as Baylor, with an impressive 21 offensive boards, despite Griner usually clogging the middle.

Griner's two quick fouls came after she tried to block a shot by Stephanie Sension, and when she was called for a charge against the 6-3 forward who is Green Bay's tallest player. The Lady Bears were up by 13 when Griner went to the bench for the rest of the first half.

Green Bay took advantage with a 12-3 run and was within 34-30 when Hoewisch hit a 3-pointer with 2:36 left.

Coach Matt Bollant called a timeout with 9 seconds left after consecutive Phoenix turnovers led to baskets by Brooklyn Pope that stretched Baylor's lead to 40-32.

Bollant settled down his team and set up what was expected to be a half-ending play, but Hoewisch found an opening and got the pass to Tetschlag for a layup. Only problem was that left 4 seconds on the clock, enough for Sims to bank in a 3-pointer from well beyond the arc as the buzzer sounded for a 43-34 lead.

Despite being only 5-foot-7, Hoewisch wasn't scared of Griner's presence, going inside several times. When she drove, got knocked down and had her shot swatted away by Griner, Hoewisch looked up at the official, holding her arms out in disbelief that no foul was called.

On another play before halftime, Hoewisch penetrated and stopped on the left side of the lane with Griner in her path, then swung the ball around Baylor's center to Tetschlag for an easy layup to get the Phoenix within 24-17 a few minutes before Griner's second foul.

But Hoewisch absorbed the full brunt of Baylor's big center midway through the second half. When she came up from behind to try to provide defensive help, Hoewisch was called for a foul when Griner fell on top of her.

DALLAS (AP) - Sydney Carter 22 points and Texas A&M finally beat Baylor-- when it counted the most.

The Aggies are going to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in school history after a 58-46 victory over the top-seeded Lady Bears on Tuesday night in the Dallas Regional final.

Baylor and All-American Brittney Griner, who played in the Final Four last year in the 6-foot-8 center's freshman season, will have to settle for the Big 12 regular season and tournament trophies the still-young Bears (34-3) already won this season.

Texas A&M (31-5) had lost eight straight games against its Big 12 rival, including the previous three this season.

The Aggies blew a nine-point lead midway through the second half in Waco last month. They squandered a 12-0 start in the Big 12 championship game just more than three weeks ago.

This time, coach Gary Blair's team lead from start-to-finish after Carter had a 3-pointer, an assist and a jumper in the game's first 2 minutes for a 7-0 lead.

"Tonight was our night, we didn't back into it," Blair said. "We won the game fair and square."

Sydney Colson added 12 points for Texas A&M, including some important scores after two free throws by Griner had gotten Baylor within 48-41 with 4 1/2 minutes left.

Colson blew by Griner and missed, but was fouled and made both free throws. Right after that, Colson had a steal and took it all the way for a layup and was fouled again. With the A&M bench going wild, and the stunned Baylor players sitting and staring ahead, Colson finished the three-point play to make it 53-41.

Griner, coming off a 40-point game Sunday against Wisconsin-Green Bay after scoring 30 the game before that, had 20 points and nine rebounds. But she struggled all night shooting, making only 6 of 18 from the field. After making all 10 free throw attempts Sunday, she was 8 of 15 against the Aggies.

Melissa Jones, the only senior who played significant minutes for Baylor, scored 13 points and had seven rebounds.

Tyra White had 10 points and eight rebounds for the Aggies. Adaora Elonu had eight points and 10 rebounds.

Danielle Adams, the Aggies' All-America post player and their leading scorer, had another subpar game against Baylor. Yet, she was still smiling when she walked off the court at halftime scoreless because Texas A&M had a 32-21 lead.

After the game, Adams was in the middle of her celebrating teammates on the floor, then cutting down the net.

Adams, the senior with her last chance to get to a Final Four, finished with six points and four rebounds. She was 3 of 12 from the field, and missed all five 3-pointers.

Adams entered the game averaging 22.7 points a game and was shooting 49 percent from the field for the season. The 6-foot-1 senior finished 15 of 62 (24 percent) against Baylor with four of her five lowest-scoring games of the season.

No worries about the Lady Bears in Indianapolis, where Baylor won its national championship six years ago.

Texas A&M plays Stanford (33-2), another top-seeded team, on Sunday in the national semifinal.