ESTERO, Fla. -- Baylor headed to the beach shortly after arriving in balmy Florida for a long holiday weekend, getting a little time to bask in sun and ride down waterslides.The rest of the trip for the Lady Bears? All business.Alexis Jones scored 20 points and No. 5 Baylor beat eighth-ranked Ohio State 85-68 on Sunday in the championship game of the Gulf Coast Showcase. Tournament MVP Kristy Wallace scored 15 points and Beatrice Mompremier added 13 for the Lady Bears (7-1), who never trailed.We definitely focused when it came to the games, Wallace said.And it showed.Kelsey Mitchell scored 17 points for Ohio State (5-2), and shot 5 for 20 before fouling out. The Buckeyes shot only 34 percent for the game, and were outrebounded 52-29.Kristy had a phenomenal tournament and very deserving of the award and all of that, Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. But we cant do it alone. Our team defense was very good in this tournament.Baylor trailed for only 6:16 in the three games in the tournament, winning by an average of 30.3 points. Ohio State was the third team ranked No. 9 or better Baylor has already played this season.Baylor scored the games first nine points and clamped down defensively against an Ohio State team that came into Sunday averaging 89 points per game. The Buckeyes shot just 28 percent in the first half, going into the break trailing 38-25.Much of that stemmed from how difficult the Lady Bears made life for Mitchell.Wallace drew the defensive assignment on the Ohio State star, and with some help she was able to keep her in check.Mitchells only points in the first 23 minutes came on a pair of layups. She missed nine consecutive shots over one 16-minute stretch, including back-to-back ones in the second quarter where she got a step on Wallace -- but had her tries at the rim swatted emphatically away by the 6-foot-4 Mompremier, part of Baylors huge corps of rim protectors.Hey, theyve got a really good basketball team, Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff said. Credit to them. We didnt have our best day in large part due to them. I thought we played hard, but we just didnt execute well enough.BIG PICTUREOhio State: Kiara Lewis and Sierra Calhoun each scored 12 for the Buckeyes. ... Shayla Cooper added 11 for Ohio State, which was outscored 48-26 in the paint. ... The Buckeyes missed their final nine shots going into intermission.Baylor: It was a rare off-shooting night for Kalani Brown, who came in leading the nation this season at 79 percent. She shot 5 for 12 and scored 11 points. ... Nina Davis added 10 for the Bears.LATE SWINGThe third quarter ended about as well as Baylor could have wanted.Makayla Watermans 3-point try was long with 5 seconds left, Baylors Alexis Prince grabbed the rebound and got the ball upcourt to Khadijiah Cave -- whose layup just beat the buzzer, gave the Lady Bears a 62-46 lead and had Mulkey firing a fist into the air to celebrate.TOURNEY WRAPUPIn earlier matchups Sunday:- No. 18 DePaul made 19 3-pointers to roll past No. 11 Syracuse 108-84 in the third-place game.- George Washington topped Western Kentucky 68-49 for fifth place.- The seventh-place matchup went to Kent State, a 77-64 winner over Florida Gulf Coast.UP NEXTOhio State: Host No. 21 Miami on Thursday in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.Baylor: Host Abilene Christian on Thursday, the first meeting between the programs.Carlos Lee Jersey Large . The defence is doing its part, too. 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Halifax beat the Saint John Sea Dogs 7-5 on the strength of two goals apiece from Nikolaj Ehlers, Matt Murphy and Brent Andrews. Jonathan Drouin also scored and had three assists while Zachary Fucale made 17 saves for the Mooseheads (16-8-0), who led 6-1 after two periods.CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- During tackle Rob Bains first two seasons at Illinois, the defense he was part of lacked an identity.Statistically, it was the Big Tens worst in a number of categories, and a key reason the Illini won 10 games combined in 2013 and 14.Lovie Smiths best Chicago defenses were creators of chaos -- picking off passes, forcing fumbles and scoring points. Smith hopes some of that brand of NFL defense pays off at Illinois, where he will coach his first game Saturday against Murray State.That philosophy is distilled in one symbol hanging on the teams meeting room wall. Its a football on a spring, mounted on plaque that bears the words STRIP, PUNCH, YANK and, above them all, TAKEAWAYS.We talk a lot about takeaways, Smith said. Defensive players dont come through the doors unless they hit (the ball).For Bain, defensive identity starts with Smiths Tampa 2, essentially the same base defense the Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers ran when he was in charge of those teams and played by defensive legends like Warren Sapp, Simeon Rice and John Lynch -- players the Illini say they now regularly watch clips of. Bain says linemen will need to be disruptors, creating opportunities for the players behind them.When you have a defensive line, just a defense designed to constantly get pressure on the quarterback and put the offense in hectic situations, I think that its definitely a big advantage and benefit to the secondary, where they can kind of just sit back, see whats going on, he said. And theres more opportunities for them to make plays.Illinois defense has frequently been a liability the past few seasons.In 2013 and 2014 it was at or near the back of the conference in points given up, often leaving the Illini offense to try to outgun high-scoring opponents.Similarly, the Illini didnt create many turnovers those years, finishing with a minus-10 turnover ratio in 2013 and minus-3 in 2014.Last seeason was better, with 21 total turnovers, four more than the offense gave up.ddddddddddddBut at their best, Smiths Bears were turnover machines. The 2004 and 2005 teams both allowed fewer than 20 points a game. Between them those teams forced 63 turnovers and scored nine touchdowns over 32 regular season games.Through training camp, a lot of the talk among Illini players focused on Bain and the rest of the line: fellow tackle Chunky Clements and defensive ends Carroll Phillips and Dawuane Smoot. Between them they had 36.5 tackles for losses and 12.5 sacks, with eight of those sacks Smoots.They say they believe they can be one of the best lines in the country.After facing them in practice, Illinois quarterback Wes Lunt thinks theyre ready to create the kind of disruption Bain talked about.Were going against a great defensive line every day. When theyre in your face and its more game-like, youve got to react to it and get the ball out of your hands, he said.Late in one of the last days of preseason camp, a ball thrown to a cross-field receiver popped high in the air. A defender somewhere along the way got a touch with a hand or an arm or a helmet. From behind the end zone it wasnt clear what body part or even which defender was responsible in the mass of bodies swarming the ball.The ball came down and a defender pulled it in. It was one of those hectic moments Bain mentioned and the defense has the ball.More or less all defensive philosophies are the same -- everyones got to be accountable for their gaps, Bain explained. But I think this defense hones in especially on everyone running to the ball, the effort, the attitude, and everyone being playmakers.---Follow David Mercer on Twitter: (at)davidmercerAP---Online:AP College football: http://collegefootball.ap.org/ ' ' '