{"id":144,"date":"2007-10-26T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/26\/baylor-basketball-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:10:01","slug":"baylor-basketball-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/baylor-basketball-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor basketball on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/bkb-2.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor basketball\" align=\"right\" \/>It&#8217;s a sign of just how good the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball program has become that having the Lady Bears make the preseason top 25 is now the norm; this year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/102507aaa.html\">Lady Bears are ranked 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th<\/a>, depending on which <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/rankings?poll=2&amp;year=2008&amp;week=1\">poll<\/a> you look at. Baylor has been among the preseason top 25 in five of head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s eight seasons here, including <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/102507aaa.html\">each<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/110106aab.html\">last<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/092205aab.html\">four<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/092204aab.html\">seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s coach Scott Drew&#8217;s Bears are also receiving recognition in the preseason rankings. Specifically, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports-ak.espn.go.com\/ncb\/rankings?poll=2&amp;year=2008&amp;week=1\">ESPN\/USA Today Coaches&#8217; Poll<\/a>, released today, showed the Baylor men receiving three points; that means either one coach ranked the Bears 23rd, two coaches ranked Baylor 24th and 25th, or three coaches put BU at #25 on their ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Bears received votes in either the coaches&#8217; or AP polls was January 2001, when Baylor started off 12-0; a month later, the Bears would <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/021201aaa.html\">upset #6 Kansas<\/a> on national TV en route to an NIT appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this season will be as successful or more so for both the Baylor men and women. Sic \u2019em, Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a sign of just how good the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball program has become that having the Lady Bears make the preseason top 25 is now the norm; this year, the Lady Bears are ranked 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th, depending on which poll you look at. Baylor has been among the preseason top 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}