When head coach Steve Rodriguez fills out the lineup card for the 2019 Baylor Baseball season opener, he’ll have plenty of familiar faces to choose from. The cyclical nature of college sports doesn’t allow this very often, but the Bears are returning the entire batting order and starting pitching rotation from a 2018 team that […]
With the first pitch of the 2019 season set for Friday night in Mexico, the Baylor softball team finds itself in a familiar spot — ranked among the nation’s top 25 teams in the preseason rankings for the eighth straight year. The Lady Bears came in 18th nationally in the preseason coaches poll and 19th […]
Baylor men’s tennis has had a lot of success over the last two decades: 13 Big 12 regular season titles, 8 more conference tournament championships, and a national title. With that kind of track record, it would take someone with a pretty impressive resume of their own to take the helm of one of the sport’s […]
For the first time since March 2013, the Baylor Lady Bears are back at No. 1 in the nation! That’s according to the most recent AP poll, in which head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad received 24 of 28 first-place votes to claim the nation’s top spot. At 17-1 on the season and with wins over […]
Last year, the Baylor Family was introduced to Illuminate, the university’s academic strategic plan to guide Baylor further towards its goals as a preeminent Christian research institution. A lot of attention has been paid to the plan’s five academic initiatives — signature areas such as health and data sciences where Baylor has a lot to […]
When Vinnie Johnson, ’80, played in his first game for the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979, he tipped off a pretty impressive streak: from that moment on, there has been at least one former Baylor Bear in the NBA every single NBA season for the last 40 years. Former Baylor stars like Terry Teagle, ’78, Micheal […]
Whether it’s due to one’s learning style or schedule, for some people, reading news online just doesn’t work. They prefer an audible format — books on tape, podcasts, etc. If that sounds like you — and if you’re a dedicated Baylor Bear — then these Baylor podcasts are for you. Baylor Connections — If you take one […]
Last night, a sellout Ferrell Center crowd saw the No. 7-ranked Baylor Lady Bears upset No. 1 UConn, 68-57, ending the Huskies’ 126-game regular season winning streak. While Baylor has won two national championships under head coach Kim Mulkey, last night’s win was the program’s first-ever over a No. 1 team. [WATCH: Highlights from Baylor Athletics […]
Shortly after midnight early Friday morning, Baylor football head coach Matt Rhule was handed the 2018 Texas Bowl trophy after his Bears had defeated Vanderbilt, 45-38. The win capped off a remarkable year in which the Bears bounced back from a 1-11 season to not only become bowl-eligible, but to defeat a Commodores team picked […]
If the Big 12 Conference gave out a trophy for academic success, Baylor would be the back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back champions. For the fifth consecutive year, Baylor student-athletes are tops in the Big 12 in Graduation Success Rate (GSR). Baylor’s overall score of 90 led all other Big 12 institutions, continuing a streak of excellence that has seen the […]
