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Daily Bears Report 10/21/2017 - Homecoming

Parade and Football Game vs. West Virginia Mountaineers. Other Baylor Sports and Scandal News

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Homecoming

Watch the Baylor Homecoming Parade Saturday LIVE on KCEN-TV on air and online | KCENTV.com, Channel 6 News will broadcast the 108th Baylor Homecoming Parade live from Fifth Street on campus from 8-10 a.m. on Oct. 21.

You can watch the parade on the KCEN-TV on your television. If you don't have cable, it's digital channel 6.1. If you don't have access to a television or would prefer to watch online, you can watch our web stream by clicking here. We will also stream the parade live on the KCEN-TV Facebook page, which can be found by clicking here.

Waco: A tale of two homecomings, From mountain high in 2015 to valley low the contrast between Baylor's homecoming 2015 and homecoming 2017 is apparent, or is it really?

Baylor Homecoming brings faithful, parade back to Waco | Access Waco | wacotrib.com, Silobration may now rival Baylor Homecoming in its visitor-drawing power, pulling more than 20,000 people to downtown Waco over its three-day run, but it doesn’t have a parade, a football game . . .

Football

Football Hosts No. 23 West Virginia for #StripeMcLane - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, Baylor plays its first home in nearly a month and opens a two-game stint at McLane Stadium with a visit from West Virginia for homecoming.

Five Keys to #SicWVU - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, Baylor’s secondary struggled in last week’s loss at Oklahoma State, giving up 471 yards passing and a ton of big plays.

Smoking Musket Podcast: Baylor Preview - The Smoking Musket, This week on the podcast, Bart prepares you for the WVU-Baylor game this Saturday, including why we're weirdly nervous.

Pop Quiz: Q&A with Baylor cornerback Grayland Arnold | Baylor Bears Football | wacotrib.com, Even when he’s been broken, Grayland Arnold refuses to quit.

Vegas: Winless Bears won't be a pushover for WVU | WVU SPORTS | theet.com, The tipoff, maybe, on what West Virginia is getting itself into when it plays at Baylor at 8 p.m. tonight can be found in the point spread at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, which has the Mountaineers listed as just a 9.5 favorite.

West Virginia has reason to be wary of Baylor | Sports | bdtonline.com, Dana Holgorsen is very aware of Baylor’s winless record. The Bears have gone more than a year since winning a regular-season game.

West Virginia has reason to be wary of Baylor | Sports | bdtonline.com, Dana Holgorsen is very aware of Baylor’s winless record. The Bears have gone more than a year since winning a regular-season game.

WVU seeks fifth win at 0-6 Baylor | WVU Gameday | wvgazettemail.com, The first half of WVU’s football season was wide open to swings.

Baylor-West Virginia: How to Watch - Our Daily Bears, 7:00 on FS1 or FS2

The Chalkboard: WVU-Baylor | WVU SPORTS | theet.com, Gary Jennings is making a ton of tough catches.

Check that — the catch in and of itself isn’t the most difficult thing, but the punishment he has been taking after the reception is.

He leads the Big 12 with 48 catches (8.0 per game — fifth nationally) but is just fourth in yards per catch and has only one touchdown.

Bears hope to break into win column against WVU on homecoming | Baylor Bears Football | wacotrib.com, Making their first home appearance in nearly a month, the Baylor players can’t wait to get back to the comforts of McLane Stadium.

Baylor's homecoming winning streak at risk against West Virginia, DieHards, Baylor has won seven straight homecoming games entering its matchup with West Virginia. Downing the No. 23 Mountaineers to extend the streak won't be easy.

Soccer

Bears lose heartbreaker to Longhorns in overtime | The Baylor Lariat, The Bears came close to scoring in the 13th minute when junior defender Sarah King launched a backwards shot toward the goal, but Texas sophomore goalkeeper Nicole Curry was there to recover and keep the game scoreless.

SOC Falls in Overtime to No. 10 Texas - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, WACO, Texas Baylor soccer (10-4-2, 4-3-1 Big 12) maintained large advantages in shots and corners, but a UT goal snaked through in the 97th minute to lift No. 10 Texas (13-1-2, 5-1-2 Big 12) over the Bears, 1-0, on Friday evening at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field.

Equestrian

EQ Faces No. 3 Auburn in Road Meet - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, AUBURN, Ala. – No. 7 Baylor equestrian (1-2, 0-1 Big 12) will face No. 3 Auburn (0-0) on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Auburn University Horse Center.

Hall of Fame (From 10/20/2017)

Hall of Fame 2017 Spotlight: Jennifer Jordan Washington - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, For Jennifer Jordan Washington, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight will be bittersweet.

Tennis

MT Singles Play Headlines Day One of ITA Texas Regionals - BaylorBears.com - Baylor University Official Athletic Site, Baylor men's tennis opened the ITA Regional Championships Presented by Oracle with a 7-1 showing Friday at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station, Texas.

Baylor Men’s Basketball

Report: Alabama hoops to hold closed scrimmage with Baylor, Before each season, college basketball teams around the country hold closed scrimmages against other teams -- essentially NFL preseason games, except there are no cameras.

Baylor men happy to give back to Houston with Harvey relief game | Baylor Men's Basketball | wacotrib.com, Baylor men’s basketball fans can get a sneak peek of the team when the Bears host Houston in a benefit exhibition game to raise money for Hurricane Harvey victims at . . .

Lady Bears Basketball

Scandal Fallout

Accrediting committee recommends no punishment for Baylor over sexual assault scandal | KCENTV.com, Baylor University's accreditation appears to be safe after a special committee investigating the school found that it was in compliance on a number of key issues.

Baylor confident in accreditation review | The Baylor Lariat, Livingstone said the committee spent several days on campus and met with over a hundred of university staff members. The report specifically named key campus partners such as Baylor University’s Department of Public Safety, Health Services Center, Title IX Office, Counseling Center, Division of Student Life and the Division of Academic Affairs, saying that Baylor had “streamlined processes and systems to engage the entire university community.”

The committee also interviewed several student groups on campus including the Title IX Student Advisory Council and Baylor’s It’s On Us chapter, student regents, Chamber of Commerce members and community leaders from Campus Living and Learning.

The committee reported staff was “competent and well-trained to address Title IX reports” and that students were “directly involved in supporting the awareness of Title IX and the steps necessary to make a report.”

Baylor on track for accrediting warning to be lifted, board announces | Higher Education | wacotrib.com, “I can’t speak on behalf of the Commission on Colleges, but we feel really good about the report we got from the visiting committee and the feedback they provided,” Baylor President Linda Livingstone said. “We trust that process and we look forward to the response of the commission in December.”

The agency’s report pointed to clear Title IX-related communications shared with students, a “competent and well-trained” Title IX staff and the verification of 105 improvements Baylor made in the wake of the sexual assault scandal, which enveloped the school for more than a year and a half beginning in August 2015 and still lingers through a host of lawsuits and investigations.

Baylor on track for accrediting warning to be lifted, board announces | Higher Education | wacotrib.com, “I can’t speak on behalf of the Commission on Colleges, but we feel really good about the report we got from the visiting committee and the feedback they provided,” Baylor President Linda Livingstone said.

“We trust that process and we look forward to the response of the commission in December.”

The agency’s report pointed to clear Title IX-related communications shared with students, a “competent and well-trained” Title IX staff and the verification of 105 improvements Baylor made in the wake of the sexual assault scandal, which enveloped the school for more than a year and a half beginning in August 2015 and still lingers through a host of lawsuits and investigations.

BU says visit by accrediting commission committee went well, KWTX, A visit by a special committee from an accrediting commission that placed Baylor on warning over issues related to the school’s sexual assault scandal went well, university President Dr. Linda Livingstone told the Baylor Board of Regents Friday.