Year of the Bears!

FOOTBALL: 10-3 • Alamo Bowl Champs • Heisman winner
MEN’S BASKETBALL: 30-8 • Elite Eight
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: 40-0 • National Champs • Player & Coach of the Year
BASEBALL: 49-15 • Big 12 Champs
• Baylor’s 128 (and counting) combined wins in the four major sports (FB/MBB/WBB/BASE) are an NCAA record for a single season (129-26, .832 winning percentage)
• Baylor’s 80 wins in football and men’s and women’s basketball are NCAA record for a single season (80-11, .879 winning percentage)
• Baylor is the only school in the nation with all four major sports nationally ranked (FB 13/12, MBB 9/8, WBB 1/1, BASE 6/6)
• Baylor is one of two schools nationally (Florida) to have every sponsored sport advance to postseason (all 19 BU teams)
• 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III
• Baylor is one of three schools nationally that boasted a bowl-winning football team and men’s basketball team in the Elite Eight (Florida, Ohio State) – Baylor is the only school nationally with bowl-winning FB, Elite Eight MBB and Final Four WBB
• NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS: Women’s Basketball, Equestrian (NCEA Hunter Seat)
• FINAL NATIONAL RANKINGS: FB (12th coaches, 13th AP), MBB (8th coaches, 9th AP), WBB (1st coaches, 1st AP), BASE (tbd, currently 2nd coaches, 4th B.A.)
• NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE YEAR: Robert Griffin III (FB), Brittney Griner (WBB)
• NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR: Kim Mulkey (WBB)
• Baylor was combined 40-0 in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball from Nov. 1 to Jan. 16.
• BEST IN TEXAS: Baylor was a perfect 19-0 in men’s and women’s basketball, and 41-6 in the four major sports vs. in-state opponents (5-1 in FB; 10-0 in MBB; 9-0 in WBB; 17-5 in BASE)
• Baylor is one of two schools nationally that had both MBB & WBB reach the 2012 Elite Eight (Kentucky).
• BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS: Women’s Basketball (regular season, postseason), Baseball, Men’s Golf individual (Joakim Mikkelsen)
• BIG 12 PLAYERS OF THE YEAR: Robert Griffin III (FB), Brittney Griner (WBB), Josh Ludy (BASE)
• BIG 12 COACHES OF THE YEAR: Kim Mulkey (WBB), Steve Smith (BASE)
• Women’s basketball recorded nation’s first-ever 40-win season (by men’s or women’s program)
• Second Elite Eight appearance in last three seasons in men’s basketball (one of 6 schools)
• 10 wins in football and Alamo Bowl win over Washington
• Big 12-records 24-game overall baseball winning streak and 18-game conference winning streak
• School-record 30 wins in men’s basketball
• NFL DRAFT: 5 NFL Draft picks in 2012, most of any Texas school and more than every Big 12 school but Oklahoma (7) / 2 first-round picks (4 first-rounders in last two years – second only to Alabama with 8)
• First national No. 1 ranking in Baylor baseball history, third Big 12 Conference Championship
• Perfect 10-0 record vs. Texas & Oklahoma in FB-MBB-WBB
• Director of Athletics Ian McCaw named 2012 AD of the Year finalist by Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal/Daily
• Baylor set home average attendance records in FB (41,368), MBB (7,914), WBB (8,563) and SB (1,014).

2011-12 WINNING STREAKS BY 4 MAJOR SPORTS

• 40-0 streak in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball from Nov. 1 to Jan. 16.

FB: 6 games … current (third-longest active FBS streak)
MBB: school-record 17 games (started 17-0)
WBB: 40 games … current (nation’s longest active)
BASE: school- and Big 12-record 24 games

• Advanced to semifinals at NCATA national championship, lost to eventual national champion Oregon

• Second outright Big 12 title in 89 years
• Big 12 Awards – Josh Ludy (Player of the Year), Steve Smith (Coach of the Year), Nathan Orf (Newcomer of the Year)
• NCAA Waco Regional champions
• School-record 24-game winning streak – second-longest streak in Division I in 2012
• Big 12-record 18-game conference winning streak; 18-0 start best in Big 12 history
• Bears were No. 1 for two weeks in Collegiate Baseball poll – Baylor’s first-ever No. 1 ranking

• Second Elite Eight appearance in three seasons (one of 6 schools)
• School-record 30 wins and 12 conference victories (also school record)
• Finished season ranked No. 8 in final USA TODAY/ESPN and No. 9 in final AP Top 25 polls

• Won second national championship in seven years
• First team ever to win 40 games
• National Player of the Year (Britney Griner)
• National Coach of the Year (Kim Mulkey)

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