Baylor pulled off the relatively rare (because of scheduling) sweep of TCU in basketball yesterday, beating the Frogs senseless in both games in the Ferrell Center. The men moved to 13-2 (1-1) on the season while the women improved to 14-1 (4-0) heading into their Big Monday showdown with UConn.
No. 7 MBB Routs TCU, 88-62 - Baylor Bears Official Athletic Site - BaylorBears.com
Taurean Prince scored 15 of his career-high 23 points off the bench when No. 7 Baylor took control before halftime and went on an 88-62 victory over instate rival TCU on Saturday.
No. 7 WBB Rolls to 80-46 Win Over TCU - Baylor Bears Official Athletic Site - BaylorBears.com
Odyssey Sims scored 28 points and No. 7 Baylor led throughout its 80-46 victory over TCU on Saturday night that extended the Lady Bears' national-best home-court winning streak to 69 games. After being recognized during pregame for breaking the school's career record for 3-pointers in the previous game, national scoring leader Sims made six more shots from long-range. She had two from beyond the arc when the Lady Bears (14-1, 4-0 Big 12) scored the game's first 14 points in just over 3 minutes.
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Since I've now buried the lede just a bit, this news came across twitter just a few minutes ago:
#Baylor, #OregonState big for 4-star WR Cordell Broadus. VIP: http://t.co/HoBwBSgaGt @Bearstruth247 @Baylor247 @CordellBroadus1
— RyanBartow247 (@RyanBartow) January 12, 2014
In case you don't know who he is and can't read the article, Cordell Broadus is the son to one Calvin Broadus, otherwise known as Snoop Dogg, Snoop Doggy, and, more recently, Snoop Lion. Broadus is a 4* WR from California (obviously) that likes two things about Baylor, according to the article: 1) We throw the ball a lot, and 2) We win.
Bet he ends up at USC, but can you imagine Snoop roaming the sidelines decked out in green and gold? Reactions on twitter to the idea have been pretty awesome so far. I especially like this appeal:
Baylor's colors ARE green and gold. Snoop is already quite familiar with both.
— The 15th Letter (@Omagus) January 12, 2014
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In other news...
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TCU just needs to catch Baylor to be at the top of its new league.
Six FBS teams had A+ seasons
Handing out a grade for each FBS team after the end of the 2013 season.
Baylor fans quickly snagged vintage 1950 football uniforms - WacoTrib.com: Baylor Bears Football
The vintage football uniforms the Baylor Bears debuted for the final game of the season proved to be a popular look both on and off the field.
Texas has supposedly hired Joe Wickline, the OL coach from Oklahoma State, as their new OL coach under Charlie Strong. That comes on the heels of hiring Chris Rumph (DL coach) away from Alabama. Since we knew Strong was going to put together a solid defense/defensive staff, Rumph doesn't really "scare" me all that much. Wickline does. He's a quality coach and strong recruiter who has managed to build continually good OL units for Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State. It's not difficult to imagine him doing even better at Texas.
The National: History Achieved - Bring On The Cats
For forty years, college football has been fractured into multiple levels of competition. Something happened this year that's never happened before.
WR/PR Ryan Newsome needs to charge his phone. Oh, and Baylor made his top 10:
Early Top 10!! 👌😎😁 pic.twitter.com/yekEhfuoSC
— Ryan Newsome (@NewBoi17) January 12, 2014
Also, ODB's own Nick Pants took the internet by storm yesterday, although most of the internet didn't know it once Clay Travis cropped out his watermark. Here is the original.
@tedvid :) pic.twitter.com/SKiLGD53ot
— nick pants (@nick_pants) January 11, 2014