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Baylor Brew 4/18: Showtime!
Big 12 Tournament Action Kicks Off Today!
Baylor Brew Crew
April 18, 2025
🐻The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics
TGIF Baylor Fam. All spring long, the Baylor tennis squads have battled against some of the best teams in the country.
All of that, led to this weekend at the Hurd Tennis Center and the Big 12 Tournament openers for both programs.
IT’S SHOWTIME!
What all do we have stirring in today’s Brew? Check it out below!
🎾 It’s Showtime!
👟 Nate The Great
🏀 Got Skills
🐻 And much, much more!
🎾 TOURNEY TIME
No busier place to be this weekend than Hurd Tennis Center, who is set to host the Big 12 Tennis Championships, which is fully underway after the women’s opening round on Wednesday.
Both Baylor squads are slated to open up their action TODAY with the women set to open quarterfinal action at 12 pm, while the men take on Arizona State at 3 pm.
📈 STOCK UP
🔼 He’s Got Skillz. The building of the 2025-26 Baylor men’s hoops roster continued this week as Coach Drew and staff announced the addition of their sixth transfer of the offseason with Dan Skillings Jr. signing to join the Bears next year.
In three years at Cincinnati, the Blackwood, N.J., product appeared in 100 games with 28 starts shooting 41% from the field, averaging 9.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. In four games against the Bears, Skillings averaged 15.3 points per game, including 24 in January of 2024.
Last season, Skillings started 13 of 29 games for the Bearcats, averaging 9.2 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. He scored in double-figures 12 times last season, including three straight 18-point games to open Big 12 play.
🔼 Nate The Great. For the third straight time, Nathaniel Ezekiel finds his name on The Bowerman Watch List.
The Bowerman—collegiate track and field's version of the Heisman Trophy—began in 2009 and is presented each year to the nation's most outstanding male and female athletes.
The Big 12 Indoor Performer of the Year had a successful indoor campaign, ending as a runner-up in the 400m at the NCAA Indoor Championship, just 0.01 seconds short of gold.
Ezekiel looks to keep his momentum as he races in Baylor's final home meet of the season at the Michael Johnson Invite Friday-Saturday in the 400m, 400-hurdles and 4x400 relay.
🎥 SIC ‘EM POD: ZUZA KUBACHA
She may be over 5,000 miles from home, but Waco has provided Baylor
women’s tennis star Zuzanna Kubacha with a second home as the
Poland native is a rising star with the 23rd-ranked Bears.
Learn more about her journey and what Baylor has meant to her in
the latest episode of The Sic ‘Em Pod.
🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA
This weekend, the Baylor track & field squad hosts its annual Michael Johnson Invitational at the Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium.
During his star-studded career at BU, how many individual national championships did Johnson win?
Think you got it?
Scroll to the bottom to see the answer!
🎥 BAYLOR+: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION
Go behind the scenes of Baylor Acrobatics & Tumbling's in-venue
intro video shoot for genuine moments and impressive skills.
📅 ON THE DOCKET
Friday, April 18th
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Arizona @ 12pm (Big 12 Tournament - Hurd Tennis Center)
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. Arizona State @ 3pm (Big 12 Tournament - Hurd Tennis Center)
⚾️ Baseball vs. Utah @ 4pm
🥎 Softball at Arizona State @ 8pm
👟 Track & Field at Michael Johnson Invitational (Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium)
Saturday, April 19th
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. TBD @ 12pm (Big 12 Tournament - Hurd Tennis Center)
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. TBD @ 3pm (Big 12 Tournament - Hurd Tennis Center)
⚾️ Baseball vs. Utah @ 1pm
🥎 Softball at Arizona State @ 3pm
👟 Track & Field at Michael Johnson Invitational (Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium)
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Answer: Five
200m indoor (1989 and 1990), 200m outdoor (1990) 4×400m relay (indoor, 1990) and outdoor, 1990).
🐻 Enjoy your weekend!
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