{"id":861,"date":"2009-03-16T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/16\/mens-hoops-to-host-first-round-nit-game-vs-georgetown\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:33:14","slug":"mens-hoops-to-host-first-round-nit-game-vs-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/mens-hoops-to-host-first-round-nit-game-vs-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s hoops to host first-round NIT game vs. Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mbkb-b12-tourn09\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/jerrells-b12-march-09.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis Jerrells\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>After falling just short of a miracle run that would have landed the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season, the Bears were named <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031509aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">a No. 3 seed in the NIT<\/a> and will get to host their first round match-up with No. 6 seed Georgetown Wednesday at 8 p.m. CT. <a href=\"http:\/\/ev12.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=MB&amp;linkID=baylor&amp;shopperContext=&amp;caller=&amp;appCode\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets are on sale now,<\/a> but if you can&#8217;t make it to Waco, you can still catch the game on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>During a run that <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/ot\/newsstand.html\" target=\"_blank\">captured the attention of college basketball fans<\/a> across the country, Baylor &#8212; which finished the regular season in ninth place in the Big 12 &#8212; pulled off <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/031109aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">a mild upset of 8th-seed Nebraska<\/a>, then followed that up by <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/12\/mens-hoops-bounces-top-seed-kansas-from-big-12-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">shocking top-seed Kansas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/031309aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">breaking a 24-game losing streak to Texas<\/a> to earn the program&#8217;s first-ever trip to the Big 12 Tournament Championship Title Game. In the end, playing four games in four days took its toll on the Bears&#8217; legs and they <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/031409aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">came up short against 11th-ranked Missouri<\/a>, 73-60. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mbkb-b12-tourn09\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a photo gallery<\/a> from the title game.)<\/p>\n<p>The NIT bid gives Baylor consecutive postseason appearances for just the second time in program history; the Bears also made the postseason in 1987 (NIT) and 1988 (NCAA). The winner of Wednesday&#8217;s game will play the winner of Virginia Tech-Duquesne either Saturday or Monday at a location to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor men&#8217;s basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After falling just short of a miracle run that would have landed the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season, the Bears were named a No. 3 seed in the NIT and will get to host their first round match-up with No. 6 seed Georgetown Wednesday at 8 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}