{"id":348,"date":"2008-03-16T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/16\/special-season-continues-as-baylor-men-head-to-ncaa-tourney\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T02:18:37","slug":"special-season-continues-as-baylor-men-head-to-ncaa-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/special-season-continues-as-baylor-men-head-to-ncaa-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Special season continues as Baylor men head to NCAA Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mbkb-ncaa-celebrate.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor men\u2019s basketball celebrates\" align=\"right\" \/>After compiling the program&#8217;s best-ever Big 12 record and its first 20-win season in 20 years, head coach Scott Drew has <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031608aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team headed back to the NCAA Tournament<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The Bears were named a No. 11 seed in the West region; they will face No. 6 seed Purdue Thursday in Washington, D.C. (Game times will be announced later Monday; a very limited number of tickets are available by calling the Baylor Ticket Office at 254-710-1000.) The winner of that game will face the winner of Xavier\/Georgia on Saturday, also in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 20 years since the Bears last made the NCAA Tournament. This year&#8217;s appearance is Baylor&#8217;s fifth NCAA Tournament selection in program history; the Bears have played in two Final Fours (1948, 1950) and one national title game (1948).<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BaylorBears.com<\/a> for updates as the Bears continue their postseason run. And don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031408aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">women&#8217;s NCAA Tournament selection show<\/a> Monday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Drew and Baylor men&#8217;s basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After compiling the program&#8217;s best-ever Big 12 record and its first 20-win season in 20 years, head coach Scott Drew has the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team headed back to the NCAA Tournament! The Bears were named a No. 11 seed in the West region; they will face No. 6 seed Purdue Thursday in Washington, D.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","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\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}