{"id":3173,"date":"2010-03-15T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:47:48","slug":"mens-hoops-earns-highest-ncaa-tournament-seeding-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/03\/mens-hoops-earns-highest-ncaa-tournament-seeding-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s hoops earns highest NCAA tournament seeding ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mbkb-selsun-mar10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mbkb-selsun-mar10.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor men's basketball selection show gathering\" width=\"225\" height=\"292\" \/>Having already tied the program record for most wins in a season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/03\/mens-basketball-earns-best-big-12-finish-ever-in-record-setting-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team&#8217;s record-setting year<\/a> rolls on, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031410aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Scott Drew&#8217;s Bears earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament<\/a> &#8212; the program&#8217;s best-ever seeding, and one that essentially ranks Baylor as one of the top 12 teams in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round, Baylor will face Sam Houston State Thursday afternoon at approximately 2 p.m. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031410aam.html\" target=\"_blank\">A limited number of tickets are available now<\/a>; if you can&#8217;t make it to New Orleans, tune in on CBS or <a href=\"http:\/\/mmod.ncaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">watch for free online<\/a>). If the Bears win Thursday, they&#8217;ll face either Notre Dame or Old Dominion on Saturday. A win there would propel the Bears to the Sweet 16 for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>(Interestingly, Baylor has made two Final Four appearances without ever playing in the Sweet 16; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1948_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament\" target=\"_blank\">the Bears were national runners-up in 1948<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1950_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament\" target=\"_blank\">reached the Final Four again in 1950<\/a>, at at time when the NCAA tournament included just eight teams.)<\/p>\n<p>Among the national experts, Baylor has become a trendy pick to advance all the way to the Final Four again this year; see, for example, ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/collegebasketballnation\/post\/_\/id\/6992\/bracket-winners-and-losers\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Lunardi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/collegebasketballnation\/post\/_\/id\/6991\/first-reaction-to-the-bracket\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Forde<\/a>, or CBS&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegebasketball\/story\/13059013\/bracket-overview-laugh-for-syracuse-cry-for-kansas-crown-kentuck?tag=coverlist_active;coverlist_title\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Parrish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/video\/player\/play\/cbscollegesports\/Av6l6qoT7ZdSYmV4RLzF7qIb8XpZqnFT%20?tag=coverlist_active;coverlist_footer\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Lavin (video)<\/a>.\u00a0Can the Bears go all the way and make this <em>officially<\/em> the best season in program history? Tune in and find out!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, men&#8217;s basketball!<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. If you missed the selection show on CBS or couldn&#8217;t make to the Bears&#8217; gathering Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/all-access.cbssports.com\/player.html?code=bay&amp;media=173673\" target=\"_blank\">BaylorBears.com has footage of both here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already tied the program record for most wins in a season, the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team&#8217;s record-setting year rolls on, as head coach Scott Drew&#8217;s Bears earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament &#8212; the program&#8217;s best-ever seeding, and one that essentially ranks Baylor as one of the top 12 teams in [&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-3173","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\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}