Saturday was supposed to be the Bears’ first healthy game since December. But five minutes in, starting center Josh Ojianwuna went down with a knee injury.
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Friday night, Baylor men’s tennis traveled to Lincoln, Neb., and won the first matchup of its Midwest road trip, defeating Nebraska 4-2 inside the Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center.
No. 10 Baylor equestrian took an early lead against No. 7 Fresno State but faltered in Reining and Flat, leading to an 11-9 decision in favor of the Bulldogs Friday afternoon at the Student Horse Center in California.
The beginning of head coach Glenn Moore’s 25th year at the helm started with fireworks as No. 19 Baylor softball’s five-run bottom of the third led to a 10-2 win over ACU in the season opener Thursday as part of the Aggie Classic at Davis Diamond in College Station.
Before the 2024 indoor season, Kennedale graduate jumper and sprinter Alexis Brown had never completed an entire competition season due to injuries and transfer rules. Now fully healthy, Brown is ranked No. 3 in the world in the long jump.
Going into the 2025 season, Baylor acrobatics and tumbling will continue to captivate audiences and redefine their sport. They aren’t just setting the bar; they’re rewriting the whole playbook.
After sweeping Sunday’s doubleheader, Baylor men’s tennis looks to keep building momentum as it hits the Midwest for its first road trip of the season. The Bears will face Nebraska at 6 p.m. Friday in Lincoln and No. 4 Ohio State at noon Sunday in Columbus.
Following an executive order signed by the Trump Administration, the NCAA Board of Governors voted to open men’s sports to all eligible student-athletes and restrict the women’s category to only student-athletes assigned female at birth. The NCAA announced Thursday that the policy is effective immediately and applies to all student-athletes regardless of previous eligibility rules.
Baylor women’s basketball rattled off its third straight win Wednesday night, rolling past Houston 92-47 at the Fertitta Center. The Bears’ 45-point victory matches their largest margin of victory over a Big 12 opponent since Feb. 9, 2022.
After more than eight months since the Bears fell one game short of their first Women’s College World Series appearance since 2017, they return to the diamond once again at the Aggie Classic.
Whether you’re a football fanatic, a fan of Travis Kelce’s girlfriend or just waiting for Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show fresh off a sweep of the Grammys, the 2025 Super Bowl is set to be one for the ages. Here is what the Baylor Lariat Sports Desk thinks will go down in New Orleans on Sunday:
Today, Dong is a freshman sensation at Baylor, 3-0 in singles and half of the Bears’ No. 2 doubles pairing alongside Purdue transfer Kennedy Gibbs. At No. 85 in the national ITA singles rankings and No. 18 among newcomers, she’s been a revelation. But it took the counsel of a longtime friend to bring her back.
Without VJ Edgecombe and Langston Love, the Bears shot just 34% from the field against the Red Raiders.
Baylor football is set to host seven games at McLane Stadium and take on two teams who made runs to the 2024 College Football Playoff as part of its 12-game regular-season schedule released by the Big 12 Conference Tuesday.
The Red Raiders, a top-6 team by the analytics, are coming off an upset win at No. 5 Houston. They’ll host the Bears at 8 p.m. Tuesday night.
Baylor secured back-to-back wins taking down New Mexico 6-1, and Rice 6-1 in a doubleheader inside the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Facility on Sunday.
The sunshine brought good tidings to the Bears at the Hurd Tennis Center Sunday afternoon, as No. 25 Baylor women’s tennis won 4-0 against the University of Denver.
Behind junior forward Bella Fontleroy’s career-high 29 points and seven 3-point field goals, Baylor women’s basketball shot 61% from long range to down Cincinnati, 98-59, Sunday afternoon at the Foster Pavilion.
In front of a home crowd excited for the beginning of the season, the Bears delivered a dominating performance against the traveling South Dakota State Jackrabbits with a 14-3 victory.
The Bears scored 60 second-half points at Foster Pavilion Saturday as the Jayhawks blew a 21-point lead, the largest blown lead in program history.
In the second-ever meeting between the two teams, the green and gold came up short while trying to make up for a 4-1 loss to the Toreros in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Despite dropping the doubles point, the Bears made a statement and won the first set on all six courts before San Diego staged a comeback.
Baylor earned the doubles point for the fourth time in as many matches in a thorough victory over Nebraska.
Injury-riddled and coming off an overtime loss, the Bears return to Foster Pavilion in need of some momentum.
When junior Luc Koenig was a little boy in South Africa, his father, Rob Koenig, gave him a choice. Luc could do anything he wanted, or he could follow in his father’s footsteps as a professional tennis player. His father never forced tennis on him but made sure he knew that the journey to becoming a professional tennis player would be hard. Luc understood this and has taken that challenge and ran with it ever since.
When graduate guard Aliyah Matharu joined Baylor women’s basketball as a mid-year transfer in the fall, she not only accomplished a long-time goal of joining the Bears but also integrated within her team and the community leaving her with a feeling of unity.
Aaronette Vonleh walked into Addition Financial Arena for the final game of a three-game road trip looking for consistency on offense so that Baylor women’s basketball could bounce back from a shaky week. The senior center did just that, tying a season-high with 22 points in a 75-64 win over UCF Wednesday night in Orlando.
After an injury-riddled 2024 season, head coach Mitch Thompson anticipates a breakout season for the Bears. Returning their top five hitters and seven of the team’s Opening Day starters, Baylor picked up spring practice healthy with the injury bug out of their system.
Freshmen led the way for both teams, as Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe (28 points) and Robert O. Wright III (22 points) and BYU’s Kanon Catchings (23 points) led their respective teams in scoring.
Baylor women’s basketball is off to its best start to conference play under head coach Nicki Collen through eight games, but the Bears find themselves needing a pick-me-up when they take on UCF at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Addition Financial Arena in Orlando.
After a 15-point win against Utah on Saturday, the Bears find themselves clashing with a sharpshooting BYU offense in one of the most intimidating environments in the Big 12.
