Baylor Lady Bears | ||||
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University | Baylor University | |||
Head coach | Kim Mulkey (16th season) | |||
Conference | Big 12 | |||
Location | Waco, Texas | |||
Arena |
Ferrell Center (Capacity: 10,347) |
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Nickname | Lady Bears | |||
Colors | Green and Gold |
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NCAA Tournament champions | ||||
2005, 2012 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Final Four | ||||
2005, 2010, 2012 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | ||||
NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 | ||||
AIAW Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
1976, 1977 | ||||
AIAW Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
1976, 1977 | ||||
AIAW Tournament appearances | ||||
1976, 1977 | ||||
Conference tournament champions | ||||
2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 | ||||
Conference regular season champions | ||||
2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 |
The Baylor Lady Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I women's basketball competition. They currently compete in the Big 12 Conference. The team plays its home games in Ferrell Center and is currently coached by Kim Mulkey.
The Lady Bears went undefeated at 40–0 to become the 2012 NCAA Division I National Champions in Women's College Basketball.
Olga joined the faculty of Baylor University in 1956 and served as an assistant professor of physical education through 1997. She developed Baylor's women's athletic program from its beginning within the physical education department in 1959 and from 1972 to 1979, served as the coordinator of women's athletics. She was inducted into the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. Under her coaching the softball team, advanced to the AIAW regional tournament in 1978 and 1979. The Bearette basketball team posted a five-year record of 143–50 and earned two consecutive bids to the national AIAW tournament in 1976 and 1977, rated fifth and seventh in the nation those years.
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
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In 2000, Kim Mulkey took over a Baylor program that had finished the 1999–2000 season 7–20 and last in the Big 12 Conference. In her first season at Baylor, she turned the Lady Bears program around, leading the team to its first NCAA tournament bid. The Lady Bears have now (as of 2011) put together eleven consecutive 20-win seasons and only once has the team lost more than 10 games in a season. The rise of the Baylor program under Mulkey was capped off in 2005 with a national title. This made her the fourth person to have won NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player and a head coach (after Joe B. Hall, Bob Knight and Dean Smith) and the first woman to do so.