🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

Good Morning Bears. Don’t lie. If we brought some a Balancing Bears act to the Ferrell Center, you’d line up to see the show, right?

Well, the BU men’s basketball team is putting on a balancing act of their own with a DEEP bench and a perfect 3-0 start to the 2023-24 season.

We’ve got more hoops action this week and a few former Bears in the middle of one of the best NFL stories of the season!

What all do we have stirrin’ in today’s Brew? Check it out!

🏀 Balancing Bears
🎙 Brand New Inside Baylor Sports
🎾 Finishing Strong
🐻 And much, much more!

🎥 BAYLOR+: THE FILM ROOM

The athleticism, tenacity and all-around game of Yves Missi was on display for the Ferrell Center faithful in Sunday’s win over Gardner-Webb.

Take a deeper look on what Yves brings to the team, program and the floor from the Baylor stuff in this edition of the Baylor Film Room.

🎙 INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS

Nov. 13th Episode: 
Talking Baylor Hoops Hot Start & Recapping Baylor Football vs. Kansas State

On today’s show, we recap Baylor Football at Kansas State, but first we’ll talk Baylor hoops and the hot start for both the men and women.

We recap Baylor’s win over Gardner-Webb on Sunday to push the Bears to 3-0 and we will preview Baylor Women’s Basketball’s matchup vs. top 5 Utah coming up on Tuesday.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Balancing Bears. No, we’re not talking about the next circus act, we’re talking about Baylor’s 20th-ranked men’s basketball team.

Five players in double figures led a balanced offensive attack and the Bears pulled away against a fiesty Gardner-Webb squad for a 77-62 victory, the third BU win in the past six days.

Making his first start, freshman Yves Missi had 11 points, eight rebounds and five blocks, while classmate Ja'Kobe Walter had a team-high 14 points to lead the Bears to their second-straight home-court victory.
 
Three other players finished in double figures, with Jayden Nunn scoring 12, Langston Love 11 and Josh Ojianwuna with 10 points and eight rebounds.

📝: Victory Sunday Recap
🎥: What They’re Saying
🔢: Inside the Numbers: The Boxscore

🔺 Cinderella Sunday. One of NFL’s best stories is happening just up the road from Waco.

Not one, not ✌️, but 3️⃣ Bears are a part of that story as the unsung Houston Texans pulled off a massive upset of what many considered a Super Bowl contender in the Cincinnati Bengals.

Jalen Pitre, Grayland Arnold and Jon Weeks are right in the middle of the Texans locker room, who currently sit at 5-4 on the season and in a playoff spot if the season ended today.

Another Bear will be in action tonight during Monday Night Football, as Terrell Bernard and the Bills battle the Broncos.

🔺 Finishing Strong. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. That’s the saying we’re told throughout our lives.

Well, for the BU men’s tennis team, they took it to heart with a BIG finish to their fall season.

The Bears, who currently sit #47 nationally, piled up a 16-2 mark at the Big 12/Pac 12 Challenge in Stillwater. Those wins include ones over athletes from #40 Arizona and #45 Washington.

📝: The Final Recap Of The Weekend
📝: Recapping Day Two’s Action
📝: Recapping Day One

🏆 AWARD WINNING

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🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

With a 4-0 start to the 2023-24 season, BU finds itself with not one, but ✌️ basketball teams ranked in the AP Top-25.

How many schools nationally have both basketball programs currently ranked in the top-25?

Got a guess?

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

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🗓 ON THE DOCKET

Tuesday, November 14
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. #5 Utah @ 6:30pm
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Kansas City @ 9pm

Wednesday, November 15
🏐 Volleyball at Kansas @ 6:30pm | Live Coverage

Friday, November 17
🐎 Equestrian at Delaware State @ 8am

Saturday, November 18
🐎 Equestrian vs. UT Martin (at Delaware State) @ 8am
🏐 Volleyball vs. West Virginia @ 2pm | Live Coverage
🏈 Football at TCU @ 2:30pm

Sunday, November 19
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Harvard @ 1pm

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Seven.

Baylor is joined by UConn, USC, Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas as the only schools in the country ranked in the AP Top-25 in both men’s and women’s basketball.

🐻 Enjoy your Monday, Bears!

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