Baylor Bears Background Ticket Information

The Baylor Bears is the official name of the sports teams at Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams have a moniker the Bears, while the women's teams are sometimes called the Lady Bears. The University athletes actively take part in the NCAA's Division I. Baylor is considered to be the only private University in the Big 12 Conference.

It is in 2004, that Baylor won its 1st team NCAA title: the men's tennis team defeated UCLA. The mascot of Baylor University is Judge, a bear.

Track and field, baseball, basketball and football are the most popular sports at the University. Baylor's most successful kind of sports is track and field. It accounts for 466 All-Americans with head coach Clyde Hart. The biggest success of the program was its men's 4x400 relay team, which resulted in teams playing in the NCAA final games in each of the previous 27 years. Also there are 3 Olympic gold medalists: Jeremy Wariner, Michael Johnson and Darold Williamson.

One more successful program at Baylor is the baseball team. From the beginning at the Big 12 Conference, Baylor has had the best conference records at 137-83 (.623) with the head coach Steve Smith.

In 2005 the Lady Bears baceame the champions of the NCAA Women's Division I in basketball. They defeated the Spartans of Michigan State University with the score 84-62. The coach of the team is Kim Mulkey-Robertson, who became the first women's coach and the third coach throughout the whole history to win the NCAA basketball competition, both playing and coaching.

The scandal in the year of 2003 had very serious consequences for the men's basketball team. A player killed Patrick Dennehy, and the coach was forced to resign. The NCAA punished the team by putting a non-conference ban for the 2005-2006 season and prolonged the probation period, having limited the recruiting privileges. In the year of 2005 the team was minimized to 7 scholarship players and was only once a winner of a conference play. Despite all these hardships, head coach Scott Drew managed to put together the 2005 signing class, which ranked No. 7 in the USA.

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