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Women's Basketball: Baylor at Rice , 11/23/08 3:00 PM ET
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Baylor @ Rice
Women's Volleyball: Missouri at Baylor , 11/22/08 8:00 PM ET
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Men's Basketball: Southern at Baylor , 11/22/08 2:00 PM ET
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Southern University @ Baylor
Women's Equestrian: Texas A&M at Baylor , 11/22/08 12:00 PM ET
22 Nov 2008 at 12:00pm
Texas A&M @ Baylor
Women's Basketball: Stephen F. Austin at Baylor , 11/21/08 8:00 PM ET
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Women's Equestrian: Georgia at Baylor , 11/21/08 3:00 PM ET
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Women's Volleyball: Baylor at Texas Tech , 11/19/08 8:00 PM ET
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Baylor University Athletics - "Baylor" - "BU" - " Baylor Bears":
Baylor Bears (variously Baylor or BU) refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears. Student athletes participate in the NCAA's Division I, and Baylor is the only private school in the Big 12 Conference. Prior to joining the Big 12, Baylor was a member of the Southwest Conference from the conference's charter in 1914 until its dissolution in 1996.

Baylor won its first team NCAA title in 2004 as the men's tennis team defeated UCLA in the championship game. They narrowly lost to UCLA in the 2005 national championship match. Baylor alum Benjamin Becker defeated Andre Agassi in Agassi's final professional match at the U.S. Open.

The mascot of Baylor University is a bear named Judge.

Varsity Sports: Baylor competes in the following 16 varsity sports:

Men's Sports:
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Football
Golf
Tennis
Track & Field

Women's Sports:
Basketball
Cross Country
Equestrian
Golf
Soccer
Softball
Tennis
Track & Field
Volleyball

 

Baseball:
Baylor's baseball team is one of the most successful athletic programs at Baylor. Since the inception of the Big 12 Conference, Baylor has carried the best conference record at 137–83 (.623) under head coach Steve Smith.

The 2005 Bears played one of the toughest schedules in the nation and went all the way to Omaha where they finally lost to the University of Texas, whom they had beaten 3 times during conference play. The Bears' strength was their pitching, with a weekend rotation of Trey Taylor, Cory VanAllen and Mark McCormick with closers Abe Woody and Ryan LaMotta. While their offense was poor during the regular season, during the post season the offense produced. Many players from this team have gone on to play professional baseball.

Five Baylor student-athletes were drafted in the 2006 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. At least one Baylor player has been drafted every year since 1991. A total of 56 Baylor players have been drafted since the inception of the Big 12 Conference in 1997, the most of any program in the conference.

Basketball:
The Baylor Lady Bears won the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 2005. Coached by Kim Mulkey, at that time Mulkey-Robertson, the Lady Bears defeated the Spartans of Michigan State University 84–62. Mulkey became the first women's coach and only the third coach in history to win an NCAA Division I basketball championship as both a player and a coach, joining Dean Smith and Bob Knight.

Baylor men's teams won five conference championships in the former Southwest Conference (1932, 1946, 1948, 1949*, 1950*; * denotes shared title). The Bears reached the Elite Eight in 1946 and the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. The 1948 team advanced to play the Kentucky Wildcats for the NCAA championship, but fell 58-42 to Adolph Rupp's first national championship team.

Both the men and women call the Ferrell Center home, which was built in 1988. Previously they played in the Heart of Texas Colieseum.

Football:
The Baylor football team plays at Floyd Casey Stadium, located a few miles away from campus. The stadium was built in 1950 and currently seats more than 50,000 fans. It was called Baylor Stadium until 1988.

Since joining the Big 12 conference in 1996, Baylor has held a 13–43 record in regular season play, the worst record in the Big 12 south, with its best season coming in 2005. In 2004, Baylor defeated its first ranked opponent since 1998, #16 ranked Texas A&M, by a score of 35-34 in overtime on a two-point conversion. In 2005 the team opened 3-0 for the first time since 1996 and finished 5-6; Baylor also won its first Big 12 road game in school history at Iowa State. Also despite a disappointing 4–8 record in 2006, the Bears swept the Big 12 North portion of its conference schedule and won 3 conference games in a season for the first time since joining the Big 12 in 1996. On November 18, 2007, Baylor fired football coach Guy Morriss and announced on November 28, 2007 that former University of Houston head coach Art Briles as the new coach.

During the 2006 campaign, the Bears notched a 3-5 record in the Big 12, its best since the Big 12 Conference was created. The record included wins over Kansas State University, Kansas University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, all teams of the conference's northern division. The Bears' five losses were all to the Big 12 South Division, which includes the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University. Baylor recorded the third largest comeback in its history against the Kansas Jayhawks by scoring 19 points in the 4th quarter to win the contest 36–35. The game also marked Baylor's first homecoming victory since beating Texas in 1997.

Track and Field:
Baylor's most notable sports program is perhaps its track and field team, producing 466 All-Americans under the 42-year tenure of head coach Clyde Hart. The greatest standout of the track program has been its men's 4x400 relay team, which has sent teams to the NCAA finals in each of the past 27 years and produced three Olympic gold medalists: Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner and Darold Williamson. The last three Olympic gold medalists in the 400 meter run are Baylor grads (Johnson in '96 and '00, then Wariner in '04). In 2005, Clyde Hart became Director of Track & Field, and Todd Harbour took over as head coach of Baylor's track and field and cross county squads.

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