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Baylor Bears refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Their men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears. The Baylor Lady Bears won the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 2005. Coached by Kim Mulkey, at that time Mulkey-Robertson, the Lady Bears defeated the Spartans of Michigan State University with 84-62. Mulkey became the first women's coach and only the third coach in history to win an NCAA Division I basketball championship as both a player and a coach, joining Dean Smith and Bob Knight. The men's basketball program was plagued by scandal in 2003.
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The 2005 Bears were hindered by only having 7 scholarship players and recorded only one win in conference play, and head coach Scott Drew was able to put together a 2005 signing class ranked No. 7 nationally by HoopScoop. The 2006 Bears include Aaron Bruce, the highest scoring freshman in the NCAA in 2005, and Mamadou Diene, rated one of the top 10 centers for the 2007 NBA draft. The program's recovery has culminated in an at-large NCAA Men's Tournament berth in March 2008. Their men's teams won five conference championships in the former Southwest Conference in 1932, 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950, and reached the Elite Eight in 1946 and the Final Four in 1948 and 1950.
The 1948 team advanced to play the Kentucky Wildcats for the NCAA championship, but fell 58-42 to Adolph Rupp's first national championship team. Their home is the Ferrell Center home, which was built in 1988, and previously they played in the Heart of Texas Colieseum.