No. 2 Baylor Bears Hosts West Virginia Mountaineers
The Bears, now with their highest AP ranking ever, were coming off their epic 61-58 comeback victory over TCU last season when they went to West Virginia and lost 41-27.
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The Bears, now with their highest AP ranking ever, were coming off their epic 61-58 comeback victory over TCU last season when they went to West Virginia and lost 41-27.
Since Big 12 play started three weeks ago, the winning team has scored at least 50 points in half of the 12 games that count in the conference standings. There were at least 97 combined points in four of those games.
Baylor QB Seth Russell has the third-ranked Bears (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) in prime position for the College Football Playoff heading into Saturday's game at Kansas,
The two-time defending Big 12 champions, who are off to a 3-0 start, play their league opener Saturday against Texas Tech at the Dallas Cowboys' NFL stadium.
Brittney Griner will be missing some of USA Basketball's European training camp this week after she was suspended by the organization.
No. 5 Baylor wrapped up its non-conference schedule with a 70-17 romp over Rice on Saturday.
Coming off an open date, Baylor plays its final non-conference game Saturday against Rice (2-1).
Just don't anticipate a repeat of 1981, when Lamar earned what is still one of the biggest upsets in its history. The Cardinals opened that season in Waco with a victory over the Southwest Conference champion Bears.
Baylor quarterback Seth Russell did everything exactly like coach Art Briles anticipated he would in the season opener, except complete only half of his passes.
Baylor will be without defensive end Shawn Oakman and safety Orion Stewart in its season opener Friday night at SMU. The two starters have been suspended after violating unspecified team rules.
The No. 4 Bears open the season Friday night at SMU, their former Southwest Conference rival playing its first game under new coach and Texas native Chad Morris.
Baylor University has hired a Philadelphia law firm to independently investigate the university's handling of sexual assault complaints, including one against defensive end Sam Ukwuachu.
Briles said Monday that his team isn't distracted by the school president's call for an independent investigation into the handling of a sexual assault complaint against former transfer Sam Ukwuachu.
The commissioner is pushing a new rule that would ban athletes from transferring to Big 12 schools if they have discipline problems at their old schools.
The world's largest Baptist university has dropped specific references to homosexual acts from its sexual conduct policy.
Big 12 schools will split up a record $252 million in revenue, the ninth year in a row of increases.
Former Baylor Lady Bears standout player Brittney Griner and fiancee and fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson have been arrested on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct
Verrett was selected out of Baylor in the third round of the 2011 amateur draft by the New York Mets.
For the second year in a row, the Lady Bears' season ended with a loss to Notre Dame in a regional final.
Led by Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey, Baylor enters its matchup in the women's NCAA Tournament against Iowa as confident as ever.
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey is already talking about the NCAA Final Four that will be played two years from now in Dallas, about 100 miles from the Waco campus.
Nina Davis scored 17 points and Baylor won at home again in the NCAA Tournament, advancing with a 77-36 first-round victory over the NSU Lady Demons on Friday.
R.J. Hunter's 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds remaining capped a comeback from a 12-point deficit and lifted 14th-seeded Georgia State to a 57-56 opening-game victory over third-seeded Baylor
With Big 12 player of the year Nina Davis and national assists leader Niya Johnson, the fifth-ranked Lady Bears will open the NCAA Tournament at home for the fourth time in five years.
There is nothing unusual about Baylor going into the Big 12 women's tournament already with a trophy.
