{"id":8867,"date":"2012-05-03T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:52:12","slug":"baylor-we-are-winning-with-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/05\/baylor-we-are-winning-with-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor We Are: Winning with Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"wbbparade-may12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wbbparade-may12.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Mulkey in City of Waco Baylor women's basketball parade\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor&#8217;s athletic success in 2011-12, let&#8217;s just go straight to the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80 combined wins across the &#8220;big three&#8221; sports (football, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history.<\/li>\n<li>118 combined wins (and counting) across the &#8220;big four&#8221; (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly approaching the record of 123 set by Texas in 2003-04.<\/li>\n<li>Only the second school ever to win the Heisman Trophy and earn consensus national player of the year honors in basketball in one year.<\/li>\n<li>14 of Baylor&#8217;s 19 varsity programs have already reached the postseason this year &#8212; matching the school record for the fourth straight year &#8212; and the other five are all on pace to join them. (Only twice in the history of the Big 12 has a school had all of its teams reach the postseason in the same year.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And while this has clearly been the best year in Baylor athletic history, it didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere. Let&#8217;s look back over the last few years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>36 Big 12 titles since Ian McCaw was hired as Director of Athletics in September 2003 &#8212; third-most in the league behind only Texas and Texas A&amp;M &#8212; across six sports (baseball, women&#8217;s basketball, equestrian, softball, and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis).<\/li>\n<li>Three NCAA team championships in that same time span (men&#8217;s tennis in 2004, women&#8217;s basketball in 2005 and 2012) &#8212; the first three in school history.<\/li>\n<li>Seven straight top-50 finishes in the NACDA Directors&#8217; Cup (which recognizes success across all sports) and on track for likely the best finish in BU history this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, Baylor&#8217;s student-athletes have done all this while also excelling off the field. Individual successes have abounded (like Robert Griffin III leaving Baylor with not only a Heisman but a nearly completed master&#8217;s degree, all in less than five years), as have team honors (like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/06\/both-the-student-and-athlete-in-student-athlete-shone-at-baylor-in-2010-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">eight Baylor programs recognized in the last six years for academically ranking among the top 10% in their sport<\/a>). And that doesn&#8217;t even begin to consider the spiritual formation Baylor emphasizes (like the regular service opportunities and department-sponsored mission trips that go out several times each year).<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor athletics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor&#8217;s athletic success in 2011-12, let&#8217;s just go straight to the facts: 80 combined wins across the &#8220;big three&#8221; sports (football, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history. 118 combined wins (and counting) across the &#8220;big four&#8221; (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-athletics","category-baylor-2012","category-honors","category-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}