The Amherst Lord Jeffs have won their second Division III men's basketball national championship, defeating Mary Hardin-Baylor 87-70 at Phillips Arena.
First up is Amherst takes on Mary Hardin-Baylor in the D-3 title game, followed by Drury and Metropolitan State for the D-2 title.
On Tuesday -- two days before President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama head to Waco, about 18 miles south, for a memorial service at Baylor University -- some of them stood motionless on their front lawns, taking in the devastation.
Kansas State, which had dispatched all comers with ease, could not beat a 4-5 Baylor team with the worst-ranked defense in football's top division.
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Griffin made a 15-yard reception in traffic to convert a key third down on the game-winning drive in Baylor's opening 50-48 victory against TCU. Better.
That left Mary Hardin-Baylor, based in Belton, Texas, as the pride of the state this season.
More importantly, he lifted Baylor (9-3) to national prominence and one of the greatest seasons in school history.
Odyssey Sims scored 29 points, including two free throws with 9.1 seconds to go that put Baylor ahead 81-80.
Griner's rebound with 5:22 left gave her the triple double, and her ensuing basket gave Baylor a 70-44 lead.
Baylor (34-2) had won 32 straight games and 74 of 75 behind Griner, among the greatest players ever in her sport.
Baylor (18-13, 9-9) scored the next six points, including a two-handed slam dunk by Jefferson, and led the rest of the game.
Baylor (26-1, 15-0 Big 12) finished the first half with an 11-2 run for a 30-16 lead in its 24th consecutive victory.
Mary Hardin-Baylor is carrying the weight of Texas on its shoulders.
The Lord Jeffs scored the first 10 points, and while Mary Hardin-Baylor never allowed them to stretch that lead much, the Crusaders never managed to trim into it, either.
Since 2003, the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center of Excellence has provided high quality care and treatment for more than 4, 000 HIV-infected children and families from around Botswana, both at the center and through its decentralized clinical mentoring program.
Not when there's still a month left in top-ranked Baylor's pursuit of a second straight national championship.
He finished with a kick and shot up the Heisman charts on Nov. 19, when Baylor beat Oklahoma 45-38.
He threw for 3, 501 yards and led Baylor to a 7-6 record and its first bowl appearance since 1994.
There was a contingent of about a dozen students who drove from Texas to root on Mary-Hardin Baylor, and they made quite a racket a couple hours before tip as they marched toward the arena dressed in everything from a garish golden toga to a snazzy purple bodysuit.
Baylor outrebounded Texas Tech 51-37 and got 12 second-chance points.
Even after Griner converted a three-point play with 2:36 left to push the lead back to 72-63, Baylor had four more turnovers in a span of 1:01, including Bias' steal and layup.
Baylor jumped out to a 32-15 lead in the first 11 minutes after Williams made two free throws.
It's no surprise that the Louisville women were a 24-point underdog to Baylor in Las Vegas casinos, according to gambling expert R.
Meanwhile, there were newly ascendant challengers like Baylor, which featured the 6-foot-8 tour de force Brittney Griner and came into the NCAA tournament ranked No. 1, and Notre Dame, the Big East Conference winner that had eked past UConn three times this season.
He performed one of the first nerve-graft procedures while at Baylor in 1997.
"Cory was O-for for his career and now I think we'll have to design some plays for him to get him 3-point shots, " Baylor coach Scott Drew said.
Enbrel's potential in this realm might never have come to light but for the dogged efforts of a few university researchers, including Douglas Mann, who heads heart-failure research at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Bias then made a basket, drew a charge against Baylor freshman Alexis Prince and made another 3-pointer.
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