{"id":957,"date":"2009-04-20T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toto-2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/04\/20\/tennis-teams-clinch-big-12-titles-for-fifth-straight-year\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:17:07","slug":"tennis-teams-clinch-big-12-titles-for-fifth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/04\/tennis-teams-clinch-big-12-titles-for-fifth-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis teams clinch Big 12 titles for fifth straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mtennis_B12champs_09\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/knoll-april09.jpg\" alt=\"Head men\u2019s tennis coach Matt Knoll with Big 12 trophy\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>For the fifth straight spring, the Baylor men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis teams are <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/ot\/big12-champions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big 12 Conference champions<\/a>; each squad will enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.big12sports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=106680&amp;SPID=13211&amp;DB_OEM_ID=10410&amp;ATCLID=3724137\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s Big 12 Championships<\/a> as the No. 1 seed in its bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Matt Knoll&#8217;s men, currently ranked No. 5 in the nation, won their <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-tennis\/recaps\/041909aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">eighth straight regular season conference championship<\/a> (ninth overall). No school in the Big 12 in any sport can match that claim. The Bears finished the regular season 21-5 overall and a perfect 6-0 in conference, the seventh time in 10 years that the men have gone undefeated in Big 12 play. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mtennis_B12champs_09\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a photo gallery<\/a> from the celebration.)<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-ranked Baylor women, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-tennis\/recaps\/041909aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">clinched at least a share of the Big 12 title<\/a> with their win Sunday; a victory over Colorado on Wednesday would give them the championship outright. The Lady Bears have won five straight Big 12 titles (and six in head coach Joey Scrivano&#8217;s seven years at Baylor). Only the Baylor men and Texas women&#8217;s tennis have won more than the Lady Bears&#8217; five consecutive Big 12 regular season titles in any sport since the conference&#8217;s beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor tennis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fifth straight spring, the Baylor men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis teams are Big 12 Conference champions; each squad will enter this week&#8217;s Big 12 Championships as the No. 1 seed in its bracket. Head coach Matt Knoll&#8217;s men, currently ranked No. 5 in the nation, won their eighth straight regular season conference championship (ninth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}