Baylor has won a combined 37 Big 12 regular-season (23) and tournament (14) championships in the Big 12’s 14-year history; eight more than the 29 total (26 regular season and three tournament) titles it won in 81 years of Southwest Conference membership.
Baylor’s 37 all-time Big 12 Conference titles, which rank fifth overall behind Texas (115), Nebraska (76), Texas A&M (46) and Oklahoma (45), have come in eight sports – men’s tennis (16), women’s tennis (12), women’s basketball (3), baseball (2), softball (1), soccer (1), men’s golf (1) and equestrian (1).
Over the last seven academic years (2003-04 through 2009-10), Baylor has won a combined 28 Big 12 regular-season and tournament championships in six different sports, which ranks third behind Texas (53) and Texas A&M (30) in that period, and ahead of Oklahoma (26) and Nebraska (25).
In that same seven-year span, Baylor has won two NCAA team championships (2004 men’s tennis and 2005 women’s basketball) and 13 NCAA individual titles.
Fifteen of Baylor’s 18 sports have made at least one postseason appearance over the last seven years with men’s basketball reaching the Elite 8 in 2009-10; women’s basketball advancing to a pair of Final Fours (2004-05 national champions and 2009-10), baseball making the 2005 College World Series, softball advancing to the 2007 Women’s College World Series, men’s tennis advancing to eight consecutive Elite 8’s (including the 2004 NCAA team championship, which started a run of four straight Final Four appearances) and women’s tennis’s four Elite 8’s which includes its 2008 Final Four appearance.
Ranked 38th in the most recent (June 3rd) NACDA Directors’ Cup, Baylor is virtually assured of a seventh-straight Top 50 ranking in the national all-sports sweepstakes with points still to come from its baseball, men’s golf, men’s track and women’s track teams. In 2008-09, Baylor recorded its third-highest finish ever in the all-sports standing at No. 33, behind a 32nd-place finish in 2005-06 and a 25th-place showing in 2004-05.
For the second consecutive year, a school-record 14 of Baylor’s 18 varsity teams received 2009-10 postseason invitations.