Longtime foe Baylor visits Big 12-leading Texas as basketball's regular season winds down

No. 19 Texas vs. Baylor

6 p.m. Monday, Moody Center

TV/radio: ESPN2 / 105.3

About the series: Texas leads 60-48. The Longhorns beat Baylor by 13 points in Waco on Jan. 22 and are looking for their first sweep of the Bears since the 2009-10 season.

About the Longhorns: One of Gaston's three double-doubles this season was a 13-point, 11-rebound effort in UT's first meeting with Baylor. Gaston had 12 points and 11 rebounds as Texas beat Oklahoma on Saturday and snapped a first-place tie in the Big 12 standings. ... Texas has played nine games against six teams that currently boast top-50 scoring offenses, and it allowed 65.1 points in those contests. Baylor is ranked 49th in scoring offense (73.4 ppg). ... Texas will honor guards Sonya Morris and Anissa Gutierrez and center Femme Masudi as part of its Senior Day activities. ... Gonzales has scored at least 16 points in four of her last five games.

About the Bears: After snapping a four-game losing streak, Baylor has been victorious in its last two outings. In the most-recent ESPN bracketology projections, Baylor was listed as a No. 9 seed ... Darianna Littlepage-Buggs is a six-time winner of the Big 12's freshman of the week award. Littlepage-Buggs is averaging 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. ... Littlepage-Buggs and Bickle respectively rank second and fifth in the Big 12 in rebounding. Three Bears (Littlepage-Buggs, Bickle and Andrews) have recorded a 30-point game this season. ... Among Big 12 teams, only West Virginia (16.26) is attempting fewer free throws per game than Baylor (17.61).

— Danny Davis

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas, Baylor basketball team meet on Senior Day for Longhorns