Baylor Lady Bears Basketball

The Baylor Lady Bears basketball is the women’s basket ball team of the Baylor University popular by this name represents their University of Baylor in NCAA Division I women's basketball, Waco and Texas in competitions. Presently they participate in the Big 12 Conference. The lady bears basketball team plays its home games in the Ferrell Center and is presently being trained by Kim Mulkey. Remarkable players of the Baylor lady bears basketball team who have played the best for their team and their country include Sophia Young, Bernice Mosby and Suzie Snider-Eppers.

In the year of 2005, the basketball championship of NCAA Women's Division I was won by the Baylor lady bears basketball team. Trained under the guidance of Kim Mulkey, at that period of time Mulkey-Robertson, the Lady Bears beaten the Spartans of Michigan State University 84–62. Hence 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 an instructor, joining Dean Smith and Bob Knight. In 8 of her 9 years as head trainer, Mulkey has trained the Lady Bears basketball team to the NCAA Tournament.

By the year of 2000, Kim Mulkey the trainer followed a Baylor program that had completed the 1999-2000 seasons 7-20 and end in the Big 12 Conference. During her very first term at Baylor, she twisted the Lady Bears program around, directing the team to its first NCAA tournament bid. The Lady Bears basketball has now (as of 2009) in their account nine consecutive 20-win seasons and only once has the team lost more than 10 games in a season. The growing of the Baylor program under Mulkey was restricted in 2005 with a national title. Thus making her the fourth person to have won NCAA Division I basketball titles as a player as well as head coach (after Joe B. Hall, Bob Knight and Dean Smith) and the first woman to do so.

The Baylor basketball sport is played in the similar manner as a normal basketball game which is played between two teams of 5 players each trying to score points against each other by placing a ball in the course of a 10 foot (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) with controlled rules. A Baylor lady bears basketball team plays on a regulation NBA basketball court measuring 94' long by 50' wide. Points are attained by shooting the ball from above in the basket. The team with higher points in the end of the game is declared winner.