{"id":3182,"date":"2010-03-16T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2010-03-16T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:55:30","slug":"lady-bears-to-make-9th-ncaa-tournament-appearance-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/03\/lady-bears-to-make-9th-ncaa-tournament-appearance-in-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bears to make 9th NCAA tournament appearance in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mulkey-griner-mar10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mulkey-griner-mar10.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Mulkey with Brittney Griner\" width=\"225\" height=\"284\" \/>For the seventh straight season, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031510aae.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor women&#8217;s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite returning just one starter from <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/03\/hoops-update-men-reach-nit-final-four-women-in-ncaa-sweet-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year&#8217;s Sweet 16 squad<\/a>, head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s Lady Bears are 23-9 and ranked 14th nationally. Baylor has won 20 or more games in each of Mulkey&#8217;s 10 years as head coach, earning nine NCAA tournament appearances (and making the WNIT finals in 2003).<\/p>\n<p>A No. 4 seed, the Lady Bears will head to Berkeley, Calif., for the opening rounds of this year&#8217;s tournament. In the first round, they will face Western Athletic Conference (WAC) champions Fresno State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/sports\/baylor\/Lady-Bears-head-west-for-NCAA-tournament-could-meet-Tennessee.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday at approximately 10 p.m. CT<\/a>; the game will be televised on ESPN2. A win there would move Baylor on to face the winner of Georgetown\/Marist on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Can a team that is starting three freshmen &#8212; even if one of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/030810aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 Freshman of the Year Brittney Griner<\/a> &#8212; go deep in the NCAA Tournament? Turn on the game Saturday night and find out!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Lady Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the seventh straight season, the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament. Despite returning just one starter from last year&#8217;s Sweet 16 squad, head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s Lady Bears are 23-9 and ranked 14th nationally. Baylor has won 20 or more games in each of Mulkey&#8217;s 10 years as head coach, [&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-3182","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\/3182","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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}