Baylor University

===Year of the Bear===
The Year of the Bear is the name given to the 2011–2012 year in Baylor Athletics. During this year, the Baylor Bears football team defeated Big 12 rival Oklahoma (No. 5 AP) for the first time ever, as well as future bitter Big 12 rival TCU (No. 14 AP), ending the season at 10-3 ranked at No. 12 (No. 13 AP). Junior quarterback [[Robert Griffin III]] gained recognition throughout the year and was awarded both the 2011 Heisman Trophy and National Player of the Year honors.

Meanwhile, the men's basketball team started with 17 straight wins en route to a 30–8 season (the best in school history), a berth in the NCAA Elite Eight (its second in three seasons) and a No. 10 final ranking. The women's basketball team won the program's second national title, becoming the first basketball program – men's or women's – to finish 40–0. Center [[Brittney Griner]] was named the National Player of the Year, while Coach Kim Mulkey was awarded National Coach of the Year. The baseball team won 49 games (one shy of its all-time best), including a Big 12-record 18-game conference winning streak and school-record 24-game winning streak. Although ranked at No. 1 for two weeks (a program first), the baseball team finished in the NCAA Super Regionals and a No. 9 ranking.

Baylor's four major programs (football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball) finished with an NCAA record 129 wins during the year (and an overall record of 129–28 for a winning percentage of .822) and Baylor was the only school to have all four programs ranked at the end of their respective seasons. The football and (men's and women's) basketball programs also set NCAA records with a combined 80 wins between them, including a stretch from November 1, 2011, to January 16, 2012, when the three programs had 40 consecutive wins between them.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=http://www.baylorbears.com/yearofthebear/ |title=Baylor Bears Official Athletic Site - BaylorBears.com - Year of the Bear |publisher=BaylorBears.com |access-date=December 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208025851/http://www.baylorbears.com/yearofthebear/ |archive-date=December 8, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Outside of the four major programs, Baylor was one of only two schools that had all 19 of its sponsored sports advance to the post season.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>