The Baylor and Texas women were both knocked out of the NCAA Championship on Thursday in Round of 16 action at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
The 12th-ranked Lady Bears saw their season end with a 4-1 loss to fifth-seeded USC. The BU wrapped up the campaign with a 25-8 overall mark. The loss snaps a streak of four straight NCAA Championship Quarterfinal appearances for the Lady Bears.
Despite USC winning the doubles point, Baylor got off to a hot start in singles by winning four first sets in singles. However, the Trojans won three singles matches to claim the victory.
Jordaan Sanford claimed Baylor's lone singles win with a quick 6-1, 6-0 victory over Gabriella DeSimone on court five.
The 11th-seeded Longhorns were beaten by sixth-seeded Georgia, 4-0, as the Bulldogs claimed the doubles point and posted three singles wins. The season, which featured UT's first Big 12 Championship since 2005 and its third NCAA round- of-16 appearance in the last five seasons, comes to an end with a 19-8 overall record.
Texas and Georgia played over an hour into singles play and completed the first sets in each match before heavy rain forced the teams off of the courts. NCAA officials elected to relocate the match to Georgia's nearby indoor tennis facility, which houses four courts, and play resumed an hour later.
The clinching point came from Georgia's 58th-ranked Maho Kowase against UT's Lina Padegimaite at No. 3 singles. Kowase raced out to a 4-0 lead before Padegimaite inched her way back and evened the set at five games all. Kowase held serve and broke Padegimaite in the next two games to take the first set, 7-5. Kowase raced out to a 4-0 lead once more in the second set before finishing off a 6-1 second-set win indoors that gave Georgia its fourth point that clinched the match.
It was the fourth season since 2000 that the Big 12 has had multiple teams in the round of 16.
The Baylor men the last remaining Big 12 team in NCAA competition will face No. 8 Duke on Friday at 9 a.m. at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.