Before she became one of the nation’s premier scorers in green and gold, Taliah Scott’s journey wound through Florida, the SEC and a season interrupted by injury. At every stop along the way, buckets followed.

After three seasons at Oklahoma, Kiersten Johnson arrived at Baylor with a winning résumé. But in Waco, the senior forward found something even greater in her final season: a fresh start and renewed purpose on a team that felt like home.

Baylor women’s basketball has not achieved its previously expected heights so far under head coach Nicki Collen’s tenure. Yet the evolution of the sport has made her job more difficult than ever before.

With Baylor men’s basketball’s regular season coming to an end, let’s take a look back at the highs and lows of the Bears’ worst finish in 19 years.