Baylor track & field star rewriting the NCAA record book in 2021
The top two indoor pole vault records in NCAA history now belong to a Baylor Bear. KC Lightfoot, a junior on the Baylor track and field team, is off to an incredible start in 2021, setting the NCAA...
View ArticleLady Bears win 11th straight (!!!!!) Big 12 title
It appears there are now three great certainties in life: death, taxes, and Baylor women’s basketball winning the Big 12. Yes, the Lady Bears won their 11th straight regular season Big 12 title this...
View ArticleCulture of JOY leads Baylor men’s basketball to first Big 12 title
Shout it from the rafters — Baylor men’s basketball is the 2020-21 Big 12 Conference champion! The Bears beat No. 6-ranked West Virginia on the road Tuesday — in overtime — 94-89 to clinch the...
View ArticleVinnie Johnson builds success — from Baylor to the NBA to business
The stories of “boom to bust” for college and pro athletes after their playing careers end are legion. Vinnie Johnson, Baylor Class of 1980, is not one of those. Johnson — a two-time all-American at...
View ArticleBaylor men’s basketball earns first-ever No. 1 seed in NCAA tournament
Nine times under head coach Scott Drew, Baylor men’s basketball has heard its name called on Selection Sunday for an NCAA Tournament bid — but for the first time in program history, Baylor will begin...
View ArticleBig 12 champion Lady Bears set to defend national title in San Antonio
When the buzzer sounded in the Lady Bears’ last appearance in the NCAA tournament, they celebrated. A dramatic win over Notre Dame in Tampa in 2019 clinched the program’s third national championship...
View ArticleBaylor 1 of 3 schools to have both men’s & women’s hoops reach Sweet 16
Only three schools have both their men’s and women’s basketball programs still going as the Sweet 16 begins: Michigan, Oregon — and Baylor. The Baylor men, seeded No. 2 overall in this year’s NCAA...
View Article“We’re here for His glory”: Baylor men’s hoops earns spot in NCAA Final Four
It wasn’t a dream; Baylor men’s basketball is, indeed, headed to the Final Four. We’ve gotten used to sustained excellence from the program under head coach Scott Drew, whose teams have now racked up...
View ArticleBaylor men’s hoops to play for the national championship!
Baylor men’s basketball is headed to the national championship!!!!! Before we continue, take a minute and let that sink in. Then, consider this — head coach Scott Drew’s squad just might be playing...
View ArticleEnJOY it — the Baylor Bears are NCAA champions!!!!
Eighteen years ago, it all began with a simple press conference. Now, here we are: the Baylor Bears are the 2020-21 NCAA men’s basketball national champions!!!! In what was billed as a “historically...
View ArticleProminent Bears join in celebrating men’s basketball’s national title
One of the many, many fun parts of Monday night’s Baylor basketball national championship was seeing so many prominent Bears celebrating the win on social media. Some of them were in the arena,...
View ArticleBaylor volleyball named No. 12 overall seed for NCAA tournament
It’s been an interesting year for both Baylor volleyball and collegiate volleyball as a whole, thanks to (what else?) COVID-19. Traditionally a fall sport, the NCAA elected to move the volleyball...
View ArticleBaylor men’s tennis claims 14th regular season Big 12 title
On Sunday in Fort Worth, Baylor athletics brought home its fourth Big 12 championship in the last two months. Hot on the heels of Baylor basketball’s success, Baylor men’s tennis won its 14th regular...
View ArticleA&T extends championship run to 6, wins Baylor’s second national title this...
For the second time this month, Baylor Athletics has brought home a national championship. Three weeks ago today, we were celebrating men’s basketball title game blowout of undefeated Gonzaga. On...
View ArticleBU men’s & women’s tennis each named top-8 NCAA seeds, will host early...
When the NCAA Tennis Championships begin this weekend, Waco will be a focal point — thanks to stellar regular seasons by the Baylor men’s and women’s tennis teams. Both programs earned top-8 national...
View Article5 fast facts: Get to know new Baylor women’s basketball coach Nicki Collen
Nicki Collen was publicly introduced as the fifth head coach in Baylor women’s basketball history on Wednesday. As we’re all becoming familiar for the first time with our new coach — a fact she...
View ArticleBaylor men’s tennis reaches Sweet 16 for 17th time in 19 seasons
For the 17th time in the last 19 full seasons, Baylor men’s tennis is headed to the Sweet 16! Ranked No. 1 in the polls (and given the No. 2 overall seed by the NCAA tournament committee), the Bears...
View ArticleBaylor softball headed back to Florida to begin NCAA tournament
Fourteen months ago, Baylor softball was in Gainesville, Fla., getting ready to play the Gators, when the 2020 season was put on hold due to COVID-19. The intervening year has been a tough one for the...
View ArticleMen’s tennis’ national runner-up finish sparks ‘Year of the Bear’ memories
Baylor men’s tennis reached the national championship match on Saturday before falling in the title round to No. 1-ranked Florida, 4-1. That the Bears did so in Michael Woodson’s first year leading...
View ArticleAn MLB All-Star starter and more draft success: Baylor baseball alums shine
This year marks the first time that Major League Baseball has held its draft in July, coinciding with MLB All-Star game festivities — and Baylor baseball stars were well-represented in both. First,...
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