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. Coached by Kim Mulkey, at that time Mulkey-Robertson, the Lady Bears defeated the Spartans of Michigan State University 84-62. The Baylor Lady Bears won the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 2005. 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. At least one Baylor player has been drafted every year since 1991. Many players from this team have gone on to play professional baseball.įive Baylor student-athletes were drafted in the 2006 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. While their offense was poor during the regular season, during the post season the offense produced. 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. 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. 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 mascot of Baylor University is a bear named Judge.īaylor competes in the following 16 varsity sports: Men's sports:īaylor's baseball team is one of the most successful athletic programs at Baylor. Baylor alum Benjamin Becker defeated Andre Agassi in Agassi's final professional match at the U.S. They narrowly lost to UCLA in the 2005 national championship match. ![]() 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.īaylor won its first team NCAA title in 2004 as the men's tennis team defeated UCLA in the championship game. Student athletes participate in the NCAA's Division I, and Baylor is the only private school in the Big 12 Conference. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears. ![]() Pagename = Baylor Bears (variously Baylor or BU) refers to the sports teams of Baylor University.
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