{"id":7546,"date":"2011-11-08T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:02:35","slug":"baylor-soccer-returns-to-ncaa-tournament-for-first-time-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/11\/baylor-soccer-returns-to-ncaa-tournament-for-first-time-since-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor soccer returns to NCAA tournament for first time since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"soc-ncaa-nov11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/soc-ncaa-nov11.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor soccer NCAA tournament bracket\" width=\"200\" \/>In the last 12 months, 16 of Baylor&#8217;s 19 varsity sports have earned postseason appearances. That number went up by one Monday, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/spec-rel\/110711aae.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor soccer was selected for the 2011 NCAA tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a 14-3-3 record, the Bears are returning to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1999. Head coach Marci Jobson&#8217;s squad won 14 games in the regular season and finished third in the conference, the most wins and the best finish since Baylor went 15-5-1 and won the Big 12 in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears will get to open tournament play at home, hosting Texas State this Saturday at 6 p.m; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-soccer\/recaps\/090911aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bears already defeated the Bobcats 2-0<\/a> earlier this season in Waco. Baylor is 10-1-1 at home this season; the only loss was a 1-0 defeat at the hands of eventual Big 12 champ Oklahoma State on the final weekend of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor students will receive free admission; for alumni and other fans, <a href=\"http:\/\/ev12.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=SC&amp;linkID=baylor&amp;shopperContext=&amp;caller=&amp;appCode=\" target=\"_blank\">tickets are available now<\/a>; hope to see you at Betty Lou Mays Field on Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor soccer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 12 months, 16 of Baylor&#8217;s 19 varsity sports have earned postseason appearances. That number went up by one Monday, when Baylor soccer was selected for the 2011 NCAA tournament. Thanks to a 14-3-3 record, the Bears are returning to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1999. Head coach Marci Jobson&#8217;s [&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-7546","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\/7546","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=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}