{"id":3248,"date":"2010-03-23T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2010-03-23T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:55:46","slug":"lady-bears-join-baylor-men-in-the-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/03\/lady-bears-join-baylor-men-in-the-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bears join Baylor men in the Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Kim Mulkey\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mulkey-march08.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Mulkey\" width=\"225\" height=\"364\" \/>The fourth-seeded Baylor Lady Bears followed the men&#8217;s lead, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/recaps\/032310aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">punching their ticket to the Sweet 16<\/a> last night with a 49-33 win over No. 5 seed Georgetown. Freshman Brittney Griner blocked an NCAA tournament record 14 shots to headline a stiff Baylor defensive effort; in fact, Griner blocked more shots (14) than the Hoyas made all night (12). Griner also set a new NCAA single-season record for blocks and now has 199 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>With one day left to play in the ladies&#8217; second round, just four schools have both their men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams in the Sweet 16 &#8212; and they&#8217;re all names you&#8217;ll recognize: Duke, Kentucky, Tennessee and Baylor. In head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s decade leading the Lady Bears, Baylor has certainly made a name for itself in the women&#8217;s game, now having made five Sweet 16 appearances in the last seven years, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorathleticsexperience.com\/basketball_w_ncaa.php\" target=\"_blank\">2005 national championship<\/a>. The men are moving their way towards similar status, now with three straight 20-plus win seasons and three straight postseason appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Bears now face a rematch with No. 1 seed Tennessee in the Sweet 16; the two teams will square off Saturday in Memphis (time TBA). As you may remember, Baylor and Tennessee &#8212; both preseason top-10 teams &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/recaps\/111509aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">opened the season against one another<\/a> back in November, with the Lady Vols pulling out a narrow 74-65 win in Knoxville. Is this Baylor&#8217;s chance to return the favor? We&#8217;ll find out!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Lady Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth-seeded Baylor Lady Bears followed the men&#8217;s lead, punching their ticket to the Sweet 16 last night with a 49-33 win over No. 5 seed Georgetown. Freshman Brittney Griner blocked an NCAA tournament record 14 shots to headline a stiff Baylor defensive effort; in fact, Griner blocked more shots (14) than the Hoyas made [&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-3248","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\/3248","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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}