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Baylor coach Kim Mulkey cringed when her Big 12 champion Lady Bears and Texas A&M were made the top two seeds in the same bracket.

"It was a shock to me that they would do that to us. It was a shock. And Gary knows it was a shock to him," Mulkey said Monday. "When we shook hands at the Big 12 tournament, we were like we can get there, we're telling each other we'll see you in the Final Four. That's basically the conversations that were taking place between me and him and the players."

Except the familiar foes are now in each other's way. Baylor is trying to get to its third Final Four in seven seasons, and the Aggies (30-5) are trying to get there for the first time.

The Lady Bears had to overcome a nine-point deficit midway through the second half at home last month to beat Texas A&M. They then had to come back from Texas A&M's 12-0 start in the Big 12 tournament championship game three weeks ago.

"You just have to have a lot of respect for A&M. Every time we've played them it's just been close," Bears senior guard Melissa Jones said. "Every game has been a battle. And that's what we'll expect again this time around."

Since their 61-58 loss in the Big nike mens acg sandals 2011 online12 championship, the Aggies have won their three NCAA tournament games by an average margin of 34 points. They had a 79-38 rout against Georgia on Sunday, just before Baylor had to hold off feisty Green Bay 86-76 in a game when Griner had a career-high 40 points with 10 rebounds and six blocked shots.

And now the Aggies have the matchup they were hoping for with another chance against Baylor.

"We've looked fornike mens acg sandals 2011 online this opportunity since we lost to them in the Big 12 championship," Aggies leading scorer Danielle Adams said. "I mean, the first three times we played them, we weren't quite there, and we played them close."

Adams certainly hasn't beennike mens acg sandals 2011 online herself against Baylor.

While Adams averages 22.7 points a game and is shooting 49 percent from the field for the season, those figures are cut in half for the three games against Griner and Co. The 6-foot-1 senior is 12 of 50 (24 percent) from the field and had three of her four lowest-scoring games of the season — 13, nine and 12 points — against Baylor.