{"id":232,"date":"2008-01-11T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/11\/basketball-programs-enter-big-12-play-on-a-roll\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T14:38:06","slug":"basketball-programs-enter-big-12-play-on-a-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/basketball-programs-enter-big-12-play-on-a-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball programs enter Big 12 play on a roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bu-wbk-allison_rachel-lc-06-07-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Allison\" align=\"right\" \/>Baylor&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team has received a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so, given their impressive 12-2 start. But don&#8217;t forget the Lady Bears; head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s squad is <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">ranked No. 8 in the nation<\/a> and began conference play this week.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Rachel Allison (pictured) is the reigning <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/010808aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 Player of the Week<\/a>, the Lady Bears&#8217; second such honor this season. Allison is one of five Baylor players averaging double-digit scoring, along with Angela Tisdale, Jhasmin Player, Jessica Morrow and Danielle Wilson (who recently was the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/ny-skhomehero0108,0,3397409.story\" target=\"_blank\">a nice feature in New York&#8217;s <em>Newsday<\/em><\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/stats\/2007-2008\/confldrs.html#conf.wki\" target=\"_blank\">All five rank among the league&#8217;s top 30 in scoring<\/a>; no other team in the Big 12 can match that.<\/p>\n<p>The Baylor men and women will host their first home conference games of the year Saturday in the Ferrell Center. The Lady Bears face Texas A&amp;M at 12:30, followed by the men vs. Iowa State at 5 p.m. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/nt\/linktrack.exe?http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/tickets\/bay-tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Get your tickets now!<\/a> (If you can&#8217;t make it out for the doubleheader, the men&#8217;s game will be aired live on ESPN Classic.)<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team has received a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so, given their impressive 12-2 start. But don&#8217;t forget the Lady Bears; head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s squad is ranked No. 8 in the nation and began conference play this week. Junior Rachel Allison (pictured) is the reigning Big 12 Player of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}