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It's time to celebrateIt's one thing to be bad. It's another thing to play host to one of the sickening scandals in college sports history.
Last night, the Baylor Bear women's basketball team won the national championship, beating Notre Dame 80-61. It capped off the only 40-0 season in college basketball history (men or women) and it make Kim Mulkey the only person to have played on an undefeated national champ as a player (Louisiana Tech, 1981).
Mulkey's tenure at Baylor has been nothing short of incredible. Since she's arrived, they've never been bad and they are 338-79 overall with national titles in 2005 and 2012. In those title games, they've beat their opponent by an average of 20 points, the differential being 164-123.
When you talk women's college basketball, Baylor is right there with Tennessee and Connecticut.
Not to take away from the Bears winning the national title, but it's been a pretty remarkable six-year span for Baylor athletics. The little Baptist school in Waco has found that it can compete with the big boys. Maybe that means laxing the enrollment criteria (and, frankly, undertaking unscrupulous recruiting tactics ... maybe). Still, the Bears compete.
The men's basketball team has made the Elite Eight twice in three years and are perpetually in the top 10 in the nation. The football team came off arguably their best season ever and definitely in 60 years going 10-3 with wins over Oklahoma, Texas and TCU. To top it off, their greatest player ever, Robert Griffin III, broke through and won the Heisman Award.
It is good times for Baylor, and it's fun watching them win.
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