{"id":885,"date":"2009-03-12T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/12\/mens-hoops-bounces-top-seed-kansas-from-big-12-tournament\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T19:16:44","slug":"mens-hoops-bounces-top-seed-kansas-from-big-12-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/mens-hoops-bounces-top-seed-kansas-from-big-12-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s hoops bounces top-seed Kansas from Big 12 Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/cbs-bumbkb-march09.jpg\" alt=\"CBSsports.com front page\" align=\"right\" \/>You could hear the cheers erupt around the building here this afternoon as the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team pulled off the biggest upset in Big 12 Tournament history, <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=290712305\" target=\"_blank\">knocking off the top-seeded and 11th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks 71-64<\/a> in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Scott Drew had never before seen his team defeat Kansas; in fact, the Bears had lost eight in a row to the Jayhawks since beating them on <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/02\/02\/bears-host-kansas-tonight-for-national-espn-audience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Monday<\/a> in 2001. Even more impressively, only once before had the Big 12&#8217;s top seed lost its opening game; that came in 2001 when conference champion Iowa State was defeated by &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/recaps\/030901aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Baylor Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s win put Baylor front and center on the front pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\" target=\"_blank\">CBSsports.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\" target=\"_blank\">SI.com<\/a>, among others; in fact, as I write this, SI.com has Baylor basketball (beating KU) and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/don_banks\/03\/12\/mock1\/index.html?eref=T1\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor football<\/a> (lineman Jason Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/02\/23\/senior-lineman-a-possibility-for-2009-nfl-drafts-first-overall-pick\/\" target=\"_blank\">a likely top NFL pick<\/a>) as its main two stories.<\/p>\n<p>The Baylor men will next face the winner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&amp;ATCLID=1524124\" target=\"_blank\">this afternoon&#8217;s game<\/a> between 5th-seed Texas and 4th-seed Kansas State; the semifinal match-up will tip off Friday at 6 p.m. and will be televised on the Big 12 Network (check <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BaylorBears.com<\/a> for listings). After a first-round bye, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031109aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Kim Mulkey&#8217;s No. 7-ranked Lady Bears also begin their Big 12 Tournament run<\/a> as the conference&#8217;s No. 2 seed Friday at 5 p.m. on FSN.<\/p>\n<p><em>[3\/13 update: People back in Kansas were so bothered by the loss that <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ljworld.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/12\/kansas-senate-resolves-no-more-b-schools-ku-basket\/\" target=\"_blank\">the state Senate passed a resolution<\/a> urging KU to no longer play teams that start with &#8220;B&#8221; in March.] <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could hear the cheers erupt around the building here this afternoon as the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team pulled off the biggest upset in Big 12 Tournament history, knocking off the top-seeded and 11th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks 71-64 in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. 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