March Madness 2025
As the lights beamed bright on the opening night of the 2023-24 Baylor men’s basketball season, a freshman from Cameroon sat on the bench with just three years of prior basketball experience. By the season’s end, center Yves Missi had grown exponentially after starting 30 games for the Bears and becoming the first Baylor freshman to ever be named to the All-Big 12 Defensive Team.
Baylor basketball has been a threat all season, and heading into March Madness, it’ll continue to be one. Once it passes the first weekend, both teams will be ready to make it deep into the tournament.
As exciting as it may have been for both Baylor basketball teams to hear their names called on Selection Sunday, they know there’s no time to celebrate.
As players and schools continue to search for profitable ways to navigate the ever-changing world of Name, Image and Likeness, the sports card boom has proved to help benefit athletes. On Feb. 14, Baylor men’s and women’s basketball partnered with ONIT Athlete to bring licensed sports cards to the community.
Freshman guard Ja’Kobe Walter is different from a typical one-and-done star.
Sixth-seeded Baylor women’s basketball failed to score in the final four minutes of the game and lost to third-seeded Iowa State University, 74-63, in the quarterfinals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship Friday night in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
The Bears couldn’t salvage the Senior Day for Baylor basketball as a whole on Saturday, as both the men and the women fell in their respective contests.
The Bears split the season series with the Longhorns following a 63-54 victory Monday night in the Moody Center in Austin.
The Bears defeated the Lady Raiders despite a third quarter in which they did not make a single field goal Saturday evening in the Ferrell Center.
The Bears got a huge fourth quarter out of freshman forward Bella Fontleroy, who scored nine of her 14 points in the period to help push the team past the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs, 67-57, Wednesday night in the Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth.
