“My mindset when it comes to helping my team is just to always do it,” Van Gytenbeek said. “I want to be positive, and I want to be trusted by everybody — to know that I’m going to show up and be the same kind of person and do what I need to do for everybody else and always try to be unselfish.”
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Not everyone’s spring break was spent laying out on the beach, as Baylor Athletics kept its spring slate moving through the time off from class. Here’s everything you may have missed over the annual hiatus.
In a hard-fought contest, the Bears came up just short against the Cyclones in the quarterfinals of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
The Bears outscored the Lady Raiders 19-10 in the fourth quarter to secure the 11-point victory in the second round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
While the Foster Pavilion has been a needed and welcomed new fan experience for Baylor men’s and women’s basketball, finding a seat has been a chore for students. From a lack of abundance to a hard-to-navigate process to get in the door, students feel the process is more than they bargained for.
No. 21 Baylor women’s basketball, led by senior guard Jana Van Gytenbeek’s career-high 19 points, made quick work of Cincinnati by a score of 74-53 on Tuesday evening in the Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati.
Suzie Snider Eppers holds Baylor women’s basketball’s career points (3,861) and rebounds (2,176) all-time records.
No. 24 Baylor women’s basketball pulled put a nail-biting 66-65 win against No. 22 West Virginia on Saturday afternoon in the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va.
No. 24 Baylor’s women’s basketball secured its second win in a row by a score of 69-61 over Kansas on Wednesday night at the Foster Pavilion.
Former Lady Bear Brittney Griner had her jersey retired before Baylor’s conference game against Texas Tech on Sunday in the Foster Pavilion.
Griner will make her first return to Waco at 3 p.m. on Sunday for No. 21 Baylor women’s basketball’s conference game against Texas Tech in the Foster Pavilion.
The Bears have lost six of their last 10 contests dating back to Jan. 10.
Baylor head coach Nicki Collen said the Sooners play with “great pace.”
The Bears got back in the win column with their first home victory since Jan. 20 on Saturday in the Foster Pavilion.
The Bears shot a season-worst 34.8% from the field in a 12-point loss to the Cougars on Wednesday night in the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.
Six Bears scored in double figures on Sunday, the most in a Big 12 game this season for the program.
The Bears and Longhorns met for the final time as conference foes, as Texas is moving to the SEC following this season.
The Bears and Longhorns will meet for the 111th time at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Foster Pavilion.
Brittney Griner, who’s in her 10th season with the Phoenix Mercury, will make her first return to Baylor’s campus on Feb. 18.
The Wildcats switched to a 1-2-2 zone and held the Bears to just 16 second-half points, lifting them to a 58-55 victory on Monday night in the Foster Pavilion.
“It’s always good to get in the win column,” Baylor head coach Nicki Collen said. “I think sometimes you just need the mojo back.”
Looking at the games played so far this year, head coach Nicki Collen and the No. 12-ranked Bears have been a dominant force. On both sides of the ball, the Bears have been able to outperform their competition in nearly all statistical categories.
The Foster Pavilion has officially opened, and the energy from fans in the new arena has been electric. The Baylor Bear Pit, which consists of cheering students, has been at the forefront of it all for both the men’s and women’s basketball programs.
Here’s a quick rundown to get you caught up from the holiday break.
No. 6 Baylor women’s basketball handed No. 23 TCU its first loss of the season on Wednesday night in the Foster Pavilion.
The Bears utilized a 49-point first half to keep the Hurricanes at bay on Saturday in the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.
The Bears are 7-0, matching their best start since 2019-20 when they won their first seven games of the year.
Baseball is a game of streaks — losing streaks and hitting streaks, slumps on the mound or at the plate, maybe even an unusually high number of consecutive wins. Baylor baseball has learned a thing or two about that when looking back on the 2012 season and a craze that stormed through Waco: “Feed the beaver.”
While you were going back for “just one more roll,” here’s everything you may have missed from Thanksgiving break.
The Bears’ upset of No. 4 Utah signals a return to the program’s Big-12-championship-winning ways.