Baylor Brew 3/18: Dancing Machines

Men Earn 3 Seed, Women A Five Seed For Upcoming NCAA Tournaments

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March 18, 2024

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Good Morning Baylor Fam. Strap on those dancing shoes! The Bears are coming!

We’ve got our dancing partners and now, let’s dance! What a weekend it was for the Green & Gold!

We’ll recap it all and preview a busy week ahead! Check it out below!

🏀 Dancing Machines
🤸‍♀️ Flippin’ Out
⚾️ Green > Red
🐻 And much, much more!

What A Sunday It Was!

The reactions, the analysis, the interviews!

The first-ever Baylor+ Selection Show Special was epic
and we’ve got the full recap for you!

🎙 INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS

March 18th Edition:
The Tourney Breakdown

On today’s show we recap Selection Sunday for Baylor Basketball,
and look at the path to the Final Four for both the men and women.

Plus Baylor Baseball picks up a huge series win over Top 25 Texas Tech.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 The House Of Blues Bears. Memphis, here come the Bears!

Only fitting that an NBA arena that is home to the Grizzlies will be home for the Baylor men’s hoops squad this week as BU learned its NCAA Tournament fate on Sunday night.

For a second straight season, Baylor earned a #3 seed and will take on 14th-seeded Colgate on Friday at FedEx Forum.

🔺 Bears In Blacksburg. And now the dance begins.

The women’s squad learned at least part of its NCAA Tournament fate as the Bears earned a #5 seed in this year’s Big Dance and will head to Blacksburg for the first two rounds.

However, the opponent is TBD as Baylor will take on the winner of Wednesday’s play-in game between Vanderbilt and Columbia.

🔺 Flippin’ Out. Saturday was one for the ages for the top-ranked BU acrobatics & tumbling squad.

Senior Day.
Nearly 2,000 in the stands.
A top-five opponent in town.

It had all the makings of an epic day and it lived up to the hype with the Bears coming up with hard-fought 278.715-275.555 victory over #4 Gannon. It was the first loss of the season for the Golden Knights.

For head coach Felecia Mulkey, it was her 90th career victory at Baylor (90-2 overall) and the program’s 33rd-consecutive win.

🔺 Going Green. It was only fitting that on St. Patrick’s Day, the green shined a little brighter at Baylor Ballpark.

Battling weather all weekend long, the Baylor baseball team never flinched, fighting their way to a Top-25 series win, taking two-of-three from the visiting Red Raiders of Texas Tech, who entered the weekend ranked #23 in the country.

After taking a tough 2-0 loss in game 1, the Bears bounced back with what became a Sunday sweep (5-1 and 7-2) after rain affected Saturday’s second game.

It was the arms of BU on full display as the Red Raiders entered the weekend averaging 12.2 runs per game, but scored just five all weekend long against the Bears’ hurlers.

🎙 SIC ‘EM POD: TWEETY CARTER

This week’s guest knows a thing or two about success in March!

We're joined on this week's edition of The Sic 'Em Podcast by Tweety Carter, the first McDonald's All-American in Baylor Men's Basketball history, and currently the Director of Player Development.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

This year’s tournament is the fourth straight in which Baylor’s men’s squad has earned a top-three seed.

How many schools in the country have four straight top-3 seeds entering this year’s tournament?

Got a guess?

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

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🗓 ON THE DOCKET

Monday, March 18
⛳️ Men’s Golf at The All-American Intercollegiate (Houston, Tex.)

Tuesday, March 19
⛳️ Men’s Golf at The All-American Intercollegiate (Houston, Tex.)
🥎 Softball vs. Houston Christian @ 6pm
⚾️ Baseball at Sam Houston State @ 6:30pm

Friday, March 22
👟 Track & Field vs. Clyde Hart Classic (Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium)
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Iowa State @ 3pm
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Colgate @ TBD
(NCAA Tourney - FedEx Forum - Memphis, Tenn.)
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Vanderbilt/Columbia @ 5pm
(NCAA Tourney - Blacksburg, Va.)
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. TCU @ 6pm
🥎 Softball at #1 Oklahoma @ 6pm
⚾️ Baseball at Texas @ 6:30pm

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: One.

The Bears are the only team in the country to earn a top-three seed in four-straight NCAA Tournaments. 

🐻 Let’s have a great week, y’all!

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