Early years

Luther Burleson coached the initial basketball staff in Baylor in 1907 also doubling as the soccer coach. In Baylor’s second season of basketball then cross-town rival TCU began their program which the Bears defeated twice during the 1908–09 season. Ralph Glaze’s (1911–1914) .788 winning percentage ranks at the top all time in school history. Ralph Wolf (1927–1941) direct Baylor to its first SWC Championship in 1932 after surviving and beating one of the first excellent tragedies in college athletics in his first season as coach.
Immortal Ten
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On January 22, 1927, Coach Ralph Wolf’s Baylor Basketball group was traveling by bus to play with the University of Texas. Since the bus passed through Round Rock, Texas, it approached railroad tracks across the south side of the company district on a drizzly, cloudy day. As the bus crossed the paths the natives failed to hear the sound of the train whistle and ringing bell. The driver caught sight of the train at the last minute and tried to maneuver clear of but the Sunshine Special crashed into the bus near 60 miles off ripping off the roof and right side.
The Immortal Ten Memorial Ten Baylor students and basketball players were killed by the effect. [3] One participant, James Clyde”Abe” Kelly, pushed his friend, Weir Washamout the window of the bus only moments before the impact, rescue Washam’s lifetime but costing Kelly his own. The bodies of Kelly and Robert Hailey were found horrifically stretched across the cow-catcher on the front of the train, with arms wrapped around each other and Kelly missing a leg. Ivy Foster Sr. of Taylor, Texas, had heard of the crash and rushed to the train station in Taylor to meet the train and assist where needed only to locate his son among the dead.
The deceased were Jack Castellaw, Sam Dillow, Merle Dudley, L.R. “Ivey” Foster Jr., Robert “Bob” Hailey, James Clyde “Abe” Kelly, Willis Murrary, James “Jim” Walker, and William Winchester.
The remainder of the 1927 season was canceled. The catastrophe had reverberations over the entire nation and country and contributed to the construction of the first railway overpass at Texas where the event happened at Round Rock. Buses were later required to come to a full stop and open the door at all railway crossings to listen for trains. The Immortal Ten narrative has been commemorated each year since 1927 initially in headquarters providers then afterwards at the Freshman Mass Meeting throughout Homecoming Week. In 2007, the occasion was memorialized in bronze to the Baylor campus at Traditions Plaza.
About the 90th anniversary of this catastrophe, January 22, 2017, the City of Round Rock held a memorial occasion to recall those who had been murdered in the train-bus collision. At the event, the city committed the”Immortal Bridge,” that arcs over the railroad tracks where the accident happened. Green lampposts, green-and-gold paint and other markers honor the 10 students who were murdered there. The event was open to the general public, and attendees included Baylor administrators and student leaders, the spirit squads, and Baylor’s Golden Wave Band.
Post World War II success Baylor men’s teams won five conference championships at the former Southwest Conference (1932, 1946, 1948, 1949*, 1950*; * discussed shared title). The Bears reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 1946, and reached the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. Bill Henderson’s 1948 group advanced to play the Kentucky Wildcats for the NCAA championship, but dropped 58–42 to Adolph Rupp’s first national championship team. The group advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 1950 under Henderson dropping to the Bradley Braves 68–66. Bill Menefee (1962–1973) will lead the Bears to a national position in 1969 but failed to make the postseason that year. Menefee was the only coach during the next 50 years to have a career record of over .500, and would later serve as Baylor’s athletic director from the 1980s. Gene Iba’s 1988 NCAA tournament team would be the first NCAA tournament appearance for the program in 38 years.
2003 scandal
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The men’s basketball program was plagued by a scandal in 2003. Patrick Dennehy, a participant for the group, was murdered by former teammate Carlton Dotson; then-coach Dave Bliss had been forced to resign amidst allegations that he had violated NCAA rules by making monetary payments to four players and that he made improper statements to the press characterizing Dennehy as a drug dealer. The school placed itself on probation, limited itself to 7 scholarships for two years and enforced a post-season ban for a year. Furthermore, the NCAA further punished the group by initiating a non-conference ban to the 2005–2006 season and extending the probationary period during which the school would have restricted recruiting privileges.
Decade Long Resurgence
The 2005 Bears were hindered by just using 7 scholarship players and listed only one win in conference play. In spite of those challenges, head coach Scott Drew managed to gather a 2005 signing class ranked No. 7 nationally by HoopScoop.
The basketball program undergone a resurgence under coach Scott Drew having an NCAA Championship appearance in 2008 for the first time in 20 years using a 9–7 conference record and the team’s first national ranking in 39 decades. The January 23, 2008 116–110 5OT win over Texas A&M at College Station formally became the longest game in Big 12 history. The 2008–09 team was ranked early in the season but stumbled to a 5–11 conference finish before heating in the Big 12 Tournament defeating both Kansas and Texas en route to the championship match versus Missouri, and lost by a score of 73–60. The 2008–2009 group recorded the program’s first postseason victory since 1950 in its initial round NIT victory over the Georgetown Hoyas at Waco.
The 2008–09 team went on to progress to the NIT Final in which they fell to Penn State. The 2009–10 squad was again ranked in both polls and pulled off the largest road win in school history across the afterward #6 Texas Longhorns at Austin 80–77 on Jan. 30th. The Bears closed out the season with a Big 12 age best 11–5 record and #1 in the Big 12 championship.
The 2009–10 group was picked to finish 10th in the Big 12 at the Big 12 Coaches Poll as a result of graduation of several key players in the previous calendar year. However, the group ended the regular season 23–6 and tied for 2nd in the Big 12 standings. After a 2–1 record at the Big 12 championship, the Bears were rewarded with a #3 seed in the South Region of the NCAA tournament. The Bears defeated #14 seed Sam Houston State 68–59 in First Round action and then conquered #11 seed Old Dominion 76–68 in Second Round drama to advance to the Sweet 16 hosted in Reliant Stadium in Houston. The Bear’s Sweet 16 match-up was #10 seed Saint Mary’s, that had defeated #2 seed Villanova the previous week to advance to the Sweet 16. The Bears won handily over the Gaels, 72–49, after major 47–19 in the half. The Elite Eight was held at Reliant Stadium and the Bears’ opponent was the #1 seed Duke Blue Devils, the final #1 seed status at the NCAA tournament following the other three #1 seeds (Kansas, Syracuse, and Kentucky) were defeated by lower seeded teams. In front of quite a pro-Baylor audience of over 47,000, the Bears were defeated by the Duke Blue Devils, 78–71, to finish the magic run to the Elite Eight. It had been the best season in the Scott Drew era as characterized by convention standing, overall standing, wins, and NCAA tournament wins. The Bears finished the season ranked #10 in the last ESPN/Coaches Poll–the highest ranking in program history at that time.
The 2010–11 group began the season ranked 14th (according to this AP Preseason poll). The Bears started 7–0, also rose to 9th in the polls before falling to Gonzaga at a neutral court in Dallas. The group ended 18–13 overall and seven –9 in league playwith. The highlight of this season was Lacedarius Dunn becoming the Big 12’s all-time top scorer, and a sweep of the series versus rated Texas A&M. After freshman star Perry Jones III was suspended by the NCAA for six games, the Bears proceeded to shed their first-round match of the Big 12 Championship from Oklahoma.
The 2012 season saw another historic effort for the Bears since they followed the 2011 year with another successful seminar run that saw the Bears win 30 games and make it into the Big 12 championship title match. The Bears were chosen for the NCAA tournament and made it all of the way into the Elite Eight, which ended at a loss to eventual national champion Kentucky.
The 2013 season witnesses another winning effort for the Bears since they followed up the 2012 Elite Eight season with another successful seminar run which saw the Bears sweep both TCU and Texas Tech while just dropping one match to UT. The bears started out with a pre-season standing of #19 in the country. The Bears finish conference play at .500 and have been chosen for the NIT championship. The Bears made it all the way into the Final, which finished in a win over Iowa, winning the championship in front of a sizable audience in Madison Square Garden and promising that the 2013 NIT Title.

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