{"id":336,"date":"2008-03-10T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/10\/big-12-basketball-tournaments-this-week\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:11:38","slug":"big-12-basketball-tournaments-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/big-12-basketball-tournaments-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 basketball tournaments this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KimBaylor’s men’s and women’s basketball teams converge on Kansas City this week for the 2008 Big 12 Conference tournaments.<\/p>\n

The women’s tournament<\/a> kicks off Tuesday, though the Lady Bears (led by first-team All-Big 12 selections Angela Tisdale and Rachel Allison<\/a>) receive a bye as the conference’s No. 2 seed. Eighth-ranked Baylor will face either Texas or Texas Tech on Wednesday at 6 p.m.; that game (and all Big 12 Tournament games past the first round) will be televised by Fox Sports Net.<\/p>\n

The men, meanwhile, matched the program’s best finish ever in earning a No. 5 seed for this year’s conference tournament<\/a>; the Bears’ 9-7 Big 12 record set a new program best. Baylor (led by first-team All-Big 12 honoree Curtis Jerrells<\/a>) will face Colorado Thursday at 2 p.m.; that game will be televised nationally on ESPNU and regionally on ESPN Plus.<\/p>\n

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

Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball teams converge on Kansas City this week for the 2008 Big 12 Conference tournaments. The women’s tournament kicks off Tuesday, though the Lady Bears (led by first-team All-Big 12 selections Angela Tisdale and Rachel Allison) receive a bye as the conference’s No. 2 seed. Eighth-ranked Baylor will face either Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}