By winning their second Big 12 Conference Tournament title in five years, the fifth-ranked Baylor Lady Bears showed that they are not a one-player team. Since losing their leading scorer and rebounder (and Wooden Award finalist), Danielle Wilson, to a likely season-ending knee injury, the Lady Bears have gone 4-1, a stretch that includes three […]
After falling just short of a miracle run that would have landed the Baylor men’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season, the Bears were named a No. 3 seed in the NIT and will get to host their first round match-up with No. 6 seed Georgetown Wednesday at 8 p.m. […]
Forgive us while we go heavy on athletics for the next few days; with students just getting back from spring break, the buzz around campus is focused on Baylor basketball, and we’ll get to that in a minute. But first, I wanted to make sure some other impressive accomplishments don’t get lost among all the […]
You could hear the cheers erupt around the building here this afternoon as the Baylor men’s basketball team pulled off the biggest upset in Big 12 Tournament history, knocking off the top-seeded and 11th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks 71-64 in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. Head coach Scott Drew had never before seen his team defeat […]
We wrote last fall about former NBA star David Wesley’s return to Baylor as a student manager for the men’s basketball team. Wesley, a 14-year NBA veteran, is back on campus to finish his degree, fulfilling a promise he made to his mother. ESPN picked up on the story and ran an excellent “Where Are […]
In just its fourth season as a varsity program, Baylor’s equestrian team moved into the No. 1 spot in the national rankings this week. Head coach Ellen White’s Lady Bears are 11-2 on the season, including a 5-1 mark against other Big 12 schools. Equestrian, Baylor’s 18th varsity athletic program, is classified as an “NCAA […]
Though the NFL Draft is still two months away, the league held its draft combine this past week, inviting many of the top prospects in the country to work out in front of a collection of scouts and other NFL personnel. Among the invitees were two Baylor offensive linemen, Jason Smith and Dan Gay. Smith […]
With the college baseball season beginning tonight (Baylor hosts Pacific, 6:30 p.m.) and the softball season just underway, a host of honors have come down the pipe in the last couple of weeks. As the Bears’ ace, junior Kendal Volz will start tonight’s season opener on the mound for the No. 8-ranked Bears. Projected to […]
Did you know Baylor has five athletic teams ranked among the top 10 in the nation right now? Women’s equestrian leads the way at No. 2 in the country, followed by women’s tennis (No. 4), women’s basketball (No. 7), baseball (No. 8) and men’s tennis (No. 10). But those aren’t the only teams excelling at […]
Head coach Glenn Moore’s Baylor softball team will be depending on the strong left arm of freshman pitcher Whitney Canion to lead the Lady Bears this spring. And what an arm it is! Canion, the Texas Gatorade Player of the Year as a high school senior last year in Aledo, Texas, has been clocked as […]
