{"id":2533,"date":"2009-11-12T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:22:55","slug":"mens-and-womens-hoops-each-sign-national-top-5-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/11\/mens-and-womens-hoops-each-sign-national-top-5-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s and women’s hoops each sign national top-5 recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerryLast year<\/a>, the Baylor women’s basketball program received a commitment from the No. 1 high school player in the country, Brittney Griner, on National Signing Day. Griner, known for her 6-foot-8 height and ability to dunk, is now the Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year<\/a> as the 4th-ranked Lady Bears open their season Sunday at No. 9 Tennessee (4 p.m. CT, ESPN2).<\/p>\n

This year, both the Baylor men and women drew national headlines on Signing Day. Three years after he first verbally committed<\/a> to head coach Scott Drew’s Bears, Duncanville forward Perry Jones — a consensus top-5 recruit<\/a> — made his commitment official Wednesday. The highest ranked recruit in program history, the 6-10 Jones is ranked No. 3 overall in the ESPNU Top 100<\/a>, No. 4 by Scout.com and No. 5 by Rivals.com. This marks the fourth straight year the Bears have signed a top-50 national recruit, following LaceDarius Dunn, Anthony Jones and Nolan Dennis.<\/p>\n

The women, meanwhile, followed up last year’s signing of Griner (part of the top signing class in America<\/a>) with the commitment of the nation’s No. 2 player this year<\/a>, point guard Odyssey Sims<\/a>. The nation’s top high school point guard<\/a>, Sims averaged 18 points, 7 assists and nearly 6 steals a game last year as a junior and was named district MVP for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n

Baylor basketball has seen tremendous success in recent years, with the women coming off six straight NCAA tournament appearances<\/a> (including the 2005 national championship<\/a>) and the men having made back-to-back postseason appearances<\/a> for the first time in 20 years. Adding talents like these should keep the good times rolling in the Ferrell Center.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Baylor women’s basketball program received a commitment from the No. 1 high school player in the country, Brittney Griner, on National Signing Day. Griner, known for her 6-foot-8 height and ability to dunk, is now the Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year as the 4th-ranked Lady Bears open their season Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","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\/2533","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}