{"id":3138,"date":"2010-03-08T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:49:56","slug":"mens-basketball-earns-best-big-12-finish-ever-in-record-setting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/03\/mens-basketball-earns-best-big-12-finish-ever-in-record-setting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s basketball earns best Big 12 finish ever in record-setting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bearpit-mar10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bearpit-mar10.jpg\" alt=\"Bear Pit\" width=\"225\" height=\"299\" \/>A Ferrell Center-record crowd of 10,562 saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mens-college-basketball\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">20th-ranked Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team<\/a> cap off arguably the best regular season in program history Saturday with a <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/030610aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">92-77 win over 25th-ranked Texas<\/a>. Head coach Scott Drew&#8217;s Bears completed the season sweep of the Longhorns to finish <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/ncb\/conferences\/standings?confId=8&amp;year=2010\" target=\"_blank\">tied for second in the Big 12 Conference<\/a> &#8212; matching the team&#8217;s best conference finish since winning four Southwest Conference titles in five years in the 1940s, and in a year where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/03\/04\/2016496\/big-12-has-shown-its-strength.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Big 12 is perhaps the toughest conference in basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The list of shattered records continues&#8230; At 24-6, Baylor is one win shy of the school record for wins in a season, a record that has stood since 1946. The Bears finished 11-5 in Big 12 play, the most league victories Baylor has tallied since the Big 12 launched and tying the school record for conference wins in a season. The men have now ranked among the AP top 25 for nine straight weeks, another program record.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor placed two players (juniors Ekpe Udoh and LaceDarius Dunn) on the coaches&#8217; All-Big 12 Second Team, while another (senior Tweety Carter) made the third team, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/030710aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">giving the Bears three all-conference players (first, second or third team) for the first time ever<\/a>. After setting Baylor and Big 12 records for blocks in a season, Udoh was also named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year &#8212; the first Bear so honored in the Big 12 era. Also worth noting: senior Josh Lomers became <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/030310aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first Bear to earn three straight Academic All-Big 12 first-team honors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears head into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?&amp;DB_OEM_ID=10410&amp;KEY=&amp;ATCLID=204866026\" target=\"_blank\">the Big 12 Tournament this week<\/a> as the No. 3 seed, giving Baylor a first-round bye for &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; the first time ever. Baylor will face either Texas or Iowa State Thursday at 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/champpage\/m-baskbl-div1-index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The NCAA Tournament bracket<\/a> will be announced Sunday at 5 p.m. on CBS; tune in to find out where the Bears are headed!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor men&#8217;s basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ferrell Center-record crowd of 10,562 saw the 20th-ranked Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team cap off arguably the best regular season in program history Saturday with a 92-77 win over 25th-ranked Texas. Head coach Scott Drew&#8217;s Bears completed the season sweep of the Longhorns to finish tied for second in the Big 12 Conference &#8212; matching [&hellip;]<\/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-3138","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\/3138","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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}