No. 9 Baylor Beats South Carolina State 70-50
Baylor (4-0) opened the second half by scoring 14 consecutive points in just more than 4 minutes.
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Baylor (4-0) opened the second half by scoring 14 consecutive points in just more than 4 minutes.
Coach Bob Stoops said Tuesday that a series of mistakes led to the big numbers, including poor communication, failures to handle the Bears' fast pace and simply bad coverage but he believes it all can be fixed.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders need to beat No. 21 Baylor on Saturday in Arlington to get the six wins necessary to become bowl eligible.
With three weeks left in the Big 12's first round-robin schedule, the league's automatic BCS berth could come down to one game.
The Lady Bears received 35 of the 40 first place ballots Monday in the first regular season poll after winning their two games this week by an average of 57 points.
The women's basketball season gets underway Friday with 14 ranked games, including No. 1 Baylor and second-ranked Notre Dame hosting home games in the preseason WNIT.
Kansas won't have to look far Saturday to find an example of a program that has clawed its way to respectability.
Griner, the 6-foot-8 standout going into her junior season, played this summer with the pros as the only college player on the U.S. national team that toured Europe.
Gundy says he believes Blackmon will be able to play Saturday when the third-ranked Cowboys host Baylor (4-2, 1-2 Big 12).
Jones had long been expected to become Baylor's first one-and-done player. He was an anticipated lottery pick in the NBA draft before deciding to stay in school.
The Aggies' rivalry with Texas has more buzz, but the one against Baylor also spans more than a century. The teams first met in 1899 and Saturday's game will be the 108th between the pair.
This week the 21st-ranked Aggies are in for another challenge when they face No. 20 Baylor and star quarterback Robert Griffin III.
The Big 12 is quickly turning into the league of quarterbacks. The conference has four of the nation's top six quarterbacks in total offense.
Forget what had been a potential matchup of 4-0 teams. No. 25 Baylor and Iowa State are both trying to bounce back from losing their Big 12 openers.
It's a high-profile showdown in the Big 12, and it has nothing to do with Oklahoma, Texas or Oklahoma State.
A new hiring limitation by one employer could make the job search even harder. The Baylor Health Care System has decided that if you use tobacco, in any form, you won't get a job with them.
Robert Griffin III is a self-described loner who lives by himself in an apartment just down the road from the Baylor campus.
Texas A&M said Friday that Baylor had sold only 830 tickets from its allotment of 3,850 for the Oct. 15 football game at Kyle Field, which is less than 100 miles from the Bears' campus in Waco.
No. 1 Oklahoma held on to the top spot in the first regular-season rankings, while the Tigers used their 40-27 victory against Oregon to jump rival Alabama, which slipped to No. 3.
Baylor announced Tuesday that Seastrunk has signed a financial aid contract and will enroll in the university and join the football team.
Mulkey expressed displeasure after her top-seeded team was put in the same bracket with Texas A&M, a Big 12 foe it had faced three times already last season.
Following its first bowl appearance in 17 years there's been a bit more excitement over Baylor football this offseason then in years past.
Krizan's streak was the 11th-longest in NCAA Division I history. He had a chance to extend it in the ninth inning, but flied out to center for the final out.
Griner was the Big 12 player of the year and the league's defensive player of the year. She is the first Baylor player invited to the national team camp.
Brittney Griner scored 21 points and Destiny Williams added 18 to lead Baylor to an 86-53 victory over Kansas State that sent the Lady Bears to the Big 12 tournament finals.
