🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

Good morning fellow Bears. Bet you didn’t know that today is National Chicken Finger Day. That’s the type of hard hitting info we’re bringing you here at the Brew, you’re welcome.

Wanna know where you can get some delicious chicken tenders? The Ferrell Center, which just so happens to be the home of Baylor Men’s and Women’s Basketball.

Anddd it just so happens that season tickets are on sale NOW for Baylor Women’s hoops.

We’ve got the details on that and much more!

What else is stirring in today’s Brew? Check it out below!

🏀 Secure Your Seats
🙌 What Can Brown Do For You?
⏱ Bear (Count)Down
🐻 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Secure Your Seats. Winners of 12 of the past 13 Big 12 Championships. 19 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament. 308 wins over the past 10 seasons.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the success that the Baylor women’s program has put on display in recent years.

That success has turned into crowds of 5,000+ per night at the Ferrel Center, so make sure to secure your seats today with your Baylor Women’s Basketball season tickets.

You don’t want to miss what will surely be another exciting year for the Green and Gold.

🔺 What Can Brown Do For You? That’s exactly what the Indiana Pacers are hoping to find out as they’ve signed former Bear Kendall Brown to a two-way contract for the second straight season.

Brown, who only spent his freshman season in Waco, averaged 9.7 points and 4.9 rebounds during the 2021-2022 campaign. He earned Big 12 All-Rookie team accolades during that year as well.

He was drafted in the second round of last year’s NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, who eventually traded his draft rights to the Pacers a few weeks later.

The Cottage Grove, Minnesota native played sparingly last year in the Pacers organization, but dealt with injuries sidelined him and kept him off the court.

🔺 Max-imum Effort. Welp, that’s a sight that Baylor fans are used to.

For three seasons, Bears fans watched plenty of balls launched way over the outfield fence at Baylor Ballpark by Max Muncy.

Over 10 years later, Muncy is still up to his old tricks.

Now in his eighth MLB season, the Midland, Texas native is on a tear recently, hitting four HRs and driving in 12 RBIs this week for the Dodgers, who have now surged, winning 12 of their past 20 and now sit as the second-best team in the National League.

The four HRs this week have now given Muncy four seasons of 25+ HRs with the Dodgers. He sits at 169 career long balls at the MLB level.

In the long storied history of the Dodgers franchise, Muncy is now just the eighth Dodger ever to have four seasons of 25+ HRs for the Boys in Blue.

🔺 A Day In The Mecca. All diehard hoops fans know the meaning, importance and history around Rucker Park.

Recently, our own Coach Drew spent the day there among other Big 12 basketball coaches and hundreds of area kids for the first-ever Big 12 In the Park Days.

Coach Drew and all the coaches spent time working the kids through drills, giving them positive messaging and serving them.

The afternoon was a huge hit for the conference.

🔺 Stable Schedule. With five home meets and the Big 12 Championship on tap, the Baylor equestrian squad is looking forward to an exciting 2023-24 season.

This week, the full equestrian schedule was released, offering plenty of opportunities to catch the Bears in action.

🔺 The Butler… With the Net… In Washington, D.C. One of the most beloved smiles in Baylor history is lighting up rooms this week as former Bear Jared Butler signed a deal to join the Washington Wizards.

Butler, who starred on the 2021 National Championship team, will be in his third NBA season after spending the past two with Utah and Oklahoma City.

This summer, in four games with the OKC Thunder’s Summer League team, Butler shined, averaging 20.0 points, 4.3 assists, 2.0 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game, while shooting 50-percent from the field. In his last game of the summer, he poured in eight three-pointers en route to 31 points.

During those past two seasons, Butler has played in 48 NBA contests, averaging 4.8 points and 1.5 assists.

Last year in the NBA G-League, he posted averages of 16.7 ppg, 6.3 mpg, 3.3 rpg, and 0.9 spg in his 27 total games split between the Grand Rapids Gold and the Thunders’ G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.

🔺 For the Kids. Our Bears have been busy impacting future generations this week!

On Monday morning, student-athletes from the women’s basketball, football, volleyball, equestrian and acrobatics/tumbling squads all spent time at MELA Camp, which is run by the Baylor School of Education.

Through the use of numbers and mind games, the Bears helped the kids learn through sports and activities.

“Education is the investment current generations make into impacting the lives of generations to come.”

🏈 TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT

🔺 Houston, We’re Coming For You TONIGHT! No, we’re not taking a spaceship to Houston, but that would be really cool.

However, we will be in H-Town TONIGHT!

Get an inside look at the Bears Football program and join Baylor family to hear John Morris, the Voice of the Bears, discuss the upcoming season with Baylor Football Head Coach Dave Aranda.

Baylor Alumni and the Touchdown Club of Houston present this special opportunity to hear how the program is building a culture of excellence that includes a commitment to the physical, social, and spiritual development of players. Registration for the event includes dinner.

The event will take place at the Omni Houston Hotel on Thursday night from 7-9 pm.

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 37 DAYS

Before RGIII came along, no Baylor QB had ever thrown for more than 22 TDs in a season.

It’s safe to say that RGIII completely transformed things a tad.

In his breakout 2011 season, he rolled through opponents to the tune of a record-setting 37 passing TDs.

In addition, he tossed for 4,293 yards, ran for 699 yards, ran for another 10 TDs. Griffin III helped the Bears to a 10-win season, a bowl win and a top-15 final ranking.

Oh yeah, and he won some award called the Heisman? We’ve heard it’s kind of a big deal.

🗓 SAVE THE DATE

Get it on your calendar now fans.

This event is one of the must attend on the Baylor Athletics calendar and we can’t wait to see everyone back at McLane Stadium next month for our annual “Meet the Bears” day.

Get a sneak peek at the rosters for the upcoming season. Meet student-athletes from 14 different sports. Snap some pictures. Get some autographs and get some cool prizes!

You don’t want to miss it!

⏱ BEAR (COUNT)DOWN

21 Days. That’s right folks.

We are just 22 days away from the start of the 2023-2024 Baylor athletic calendar. The Baylor women’s squad kicks things off (literally) when they travel to Oregon to take on the Ducks on August 17th at 9 pm CST.

Two weeks later, the soccer, volleyball and football teams are ALL in action at home. Block off that weekend and make sure you’ve got the Green and Gold ready!

Order those shirts. Secure those tickets. 

The Bears are coming.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

Streak Starters. As we mentioned above, Baylor’s women’s hoops is among the best in the country and is currently on a streak of 19 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

That streak first started with the 2003-04 squad that reeled off a 26-9 record and earned a spot in the Sweet Sixteen of the 2004 NCAA Tournament.

Can you name the leading scorer for that 2003-04 team?

Think you’ve got it? 

Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

📬 STICK WITH US

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📅 COMING SOON

Wednesday, August 16

🏐 Green vs. Gold Game @ Ferrell Center

Thursday, August 31

⚽ Soccer vs. Louisiana Tech @ 7:00pm CT (Home Opener) | Tickets

Saturday, September 2

🏈 Football vs. Texas State @ 6:00pm CT on ESPN+ | Tickets

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Sophia Young-Malcolm.

That’s right, Sophia Young-Malcolm averaged 16.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.5 steals per night, while shooting 56-percent from the field.

After years of playing at the professional level, Young-Malcolm hit several different colleges to help student-athletes before returning to Waco in May of 2021 to join the Bears staff as an Assistant AD for Player Development for Baylor women’s basketball.

🐻 Let’s have a tremendous Thursday, Bears